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GOP-Style Democrats Slash DC Budget: Homeless, Poor Children at Risk
Mayor Vincent Gray is arrested at a Washington DC protest on April 11th, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Bossi) Except for white Republicans in Congress opposed to home rule, …
Weapons That Will Never Die: We Need to Stop the Expensive Reincarnations (Part II)
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How the Murdoch Press Keeps Australia’s Dirty Secret
An Aboriginal Australian in Sydney, Australia. (Photo: tunnelarmr) The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch's Watergate. …
AFL-CIO Turns Corner, Embraces Immigrant Workers (2)
Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka march in solidarity with immigrants and workers, May 1, 2011. (Photo: wisaflcio) The AFL-CIO recently announced a …
California Budget Talks: Too Close for Comfort
California Gov. Jerry Brown is right to call off budget talks with Republicans in Sacramento. There was no point in continuing a conversation with a minority …
Time to Break Up the Telecom Giants
(Photo: Bandido of Oz) At the dawn of the 20th century, the oil pipes defined America. As the 21st century emerges, the information pipes define America and …
Inflation Fears: Real or Hysteria?
Debate continues to rage between the inflationists who say the money supply is increasing, dangerously devaluing the currency, and the deflationists who say we need more money in the …
The Threats of Business and the Business of Threats
A protester carries a “United Corporations of America” flag at an anti-war rally in Washington, DC. (Photo: ragesoss/Flickr.) More and more, we hear that nothing can be …
Religious Civil Rights: Why Have the Washington Times and the Air Force Academy Savaged Them?
Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein, a 1977 Honor Graduate of the US Air Force Academy and founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, denounces The Washington Times' recent …
The Big Retailers Versus the Big Banks: It Makes a Big Difference
Shoppers at Target in West Nyack, New York. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / The New York Times) The battle of the “swipe fees” has been hard to …