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Grounds for Common Cause Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? An Interview With Timothy P. Carney
Wall Street protest on September 26, 2011, in New York's Financial District. (Photo: _PaulS_) Last week, I challenged libertarian populist writers for The Washington Examiner, who had …
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HB 56 Hurts Alabama’s Economy More Than It Helps
In all the debate surrounding Alabama's new immigration law, no one debates that it is the toughest in the nation. With Alabamian unemployment flirting with 10 percent and poverty …
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Occupy Austin: This Is Just the Beginning
Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo: Occupy Austin) Austin - Occupy Austin attracted the young, who found it new and wonderful, and the old, who found …
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Bank of America Versus America the Beautiful
A public hew and cry has arisen against the announced plan of major banks to charge depositors three to five dollars a month for the use of debit cards …
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Obama’s Failing Emails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?
For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn — slightly limp reminders of the last time ‘round. Four years …
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When Industry Pollutes, We All Pay a Steep Price
The Mountaineer power plant, a coal-burning facility in West Virginia. (Photo: Kevin Riddell / The New York Times) Economics professors Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and …
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Coming Demise of Crony Capitalism
In 1978, to the laughter of many and the derision of a few, I wrote a book called, “The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism,” which predicted that Soviet communism …
MoveOn.Org and Friends Attempt to Co-Opt Occupy Wall Street Movement
Demonstrators with the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zucotti Park in New York, October 7, 2011. Protests in Wall Street section of New York enter their third week, with …
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Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
Naomi Klein leading an open forum on Thursday, October 6, Day 21 of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: David Shankbone) I was honored to be invited to speak …
Bombshell: State Department Outsourced Tar Sands Pipeline Environmental Impact Study to “Major” TransCanada Contractor
The State Department assigned an important environmental impact study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to a company with financial ties to the pipeline operator, flouting the intent of …