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White House Seeks $125 Billion for Veterans in 2011
The White House has announced a proposed $125 billion budget next year for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The proposal calls for expanding health care to a record …
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Decency and Strength
Here in Colorado Springs, student and community organizers recently invited me to try and help promote their campaign against a proposed “no camping” ordinance, a law to ban the …
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What Getting Dumped by My Girlfriend Taught Me About Being Dumped by Obama
It was a cold February night when I got together with Irene to watch Obama's first budget address to Congress. Irene was a drop-dead gorgeous woman whose beauty was …
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The Hidden Cost of Liberal Education at Immoderate Prices
Recently, I heard from a friend whose grandson earned a coveted “early acceptance” slot from the University of Chicago. The kicker? The price of yearly tuition, room and board, …
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Froma Harrop | The Urban Future Isn’t All About Population Booms
Sunbelt-and-sprawl advocate Joel Kotkin wrote two years ago that the future of American urbanism wasn't in the “elite cities,” such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, …
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Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions
On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first-ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight …
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Joe Conason | The GOP’s Dubious Populism
The most revealing moments in President Obama's State of the Union Address were not in his remarks, but the reaction to them by those listening on the Republican side …
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Robert Scheer | Volcker Rules
Finally President Barack Obama has come to his senses on financial regulation. His endorsement of what he calls the “Volcker Rule” for once puts him squarely on the side …
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Where Gays Do Serve, Openly, in the Military
In many corners of the world, the policy on gays in the military could be labeled this way: “Don't Ask, Don't Care.” In the military establishments of more than …
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GRITtv: The Death and Life of American Journalism (Video)
Discussions on the future of journalism are happening so often now that they're almost trite. But Robert McChesney, John Nichols, Tracy Van Slyke and Kate Giammarise are not only …