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Weapons R Us: Making Warbirds Instead of Thunderbirds
Perhaps you’ve heard of “Makin’ Thunderbirds,” a hard-bitten rock & roll song by Bob Seger that I listened to 30 years ago while in college. It’s about auto …
Romney’s Immigration Reform: Force “Self-Deportation” by Making Immigrants’ Lives Miserable
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), pressed by reporter Adam Smith to offer his plan for immigration reform at [last night's] NBC debate in Florida, said he would support …
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Obama to Frame Re-Election Themes Tuesday in State of the Union Address
Washington - President Barack Obama delivers an election-year State of the Union address Tuesday night at a moment when the country is worried about the economy and his own …
Why Spend Billions on an Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons Facility?
The CMRR Facility plans, also on LANL web site. (Photo: LANL / LANS under US Department of Energy) By all accounts, the cold war came to an …
A Tale of Three Speeches About Separation of Church and State
Separation of church and state is a defining issue for Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Patients May Die When Doctors Moonlight as Big Pharma’s “Key Opinion Leaders“
(Photo: yanivba) As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took shape. A group of board-certified doctors greeted each other in …
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The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector; a Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money
Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. …
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Protesters Demand Tougher Robo-Signing Settlement for Banks Making Record Executive Payouts
Protesters demand a tougher settlement for banks over the “robo-signing” scandal in Chicago, January 23, 2012. (Photo: A Just Harvest) Federal officials this week are moving to finalize …
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Aftershocking: Frontline’s Fukushima Documentary a Lazy Apologia for the Nuclear Industry
There is much to say about this week’s Frontline documentary, “Nuclear Aftershocks,” and some of it would even be good. For the casual follower of nuclear news in the ten months …
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A Korean Spring?
As 2011 came to a close, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il took the world by surprise (including the CIA which, like the rest of us, …