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The GOP Ticket in 2012: Romney-Rubio
Mitt Romney (left) and Marco Rubio. (Photos: Gage Skidmore, Geoff Holtzman / TalkMediaNews) Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running …
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Reading in the New Millennium: Forward to the Past?
(Photo: The Daring Librarian) I’m a bibliophile of the first water. I have spent what seems half my life in bookstores all over the world. Some readers …
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Romney Wins Iowa Caucus by Eight Votes
Des Moines - Mitt Romney’s quest to swiftly lock down the Republican presidential nomination with a commanding finish in the Iowa caucuses was undercut on Tuesday night by the …
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Possible Showdown With Iran Sends Oil Prices Soaring
Washington - The possibility of a confrontation between the United States and Iran appeared to grow Tuesday after the Obama administration dismissed an Iranian warning against moving a U.S. …
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Republicans Have Shut Down the NLRB. The President Must Act!
As of now an agency of our government, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), is effectively shut down, unable to do its job. This is a “nullification” by Republicans, …
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China on the Verge
It has become increasingly common to suggest that on top of the European debacle and the sluggish recovery in the United States, China might be on the verge of …
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Occupy the Caucus: Dozens Arrested Challenging Corporate Influence in Iowa
Occupy protestors being arrested at Mitt Romney's headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, December 28, 2011. (Photo: WEBN-TV) As voters in Iowa prepared to throw their support behind …
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Nineteen Million Jobs for US Workers
Highlights of Main Findings Starting with the financial collapse and Great Recession of 2008-09, the U.S. economy has been experiencing the most severe and protracted employment crisis …
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The Last Thing Medicare Needs Is More Privatization
Americans United for Change said it best in a recent e-mail: “You can’t put lipstick on a pig,” even if a Republican and Democrat are applying the red gloss …
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Triangulations of Christopher Hitchens
“Have you stopped vomiting yet, Christopher?” were the first words I ever said to Christopher Hitchens face-to-face. I’d bumped into him at some DC shindig, the type of thing …