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Will Scott Walker Get a Pink Slip, an Orange Jumpsuit or a Second Chance?
A wide-ranging investigation has included allegations of campaign finance malfeasance, embezzlement of veterans funds, bid-rigging, and even child enticement during the period when Walker served as Milwaukee County Executive, …
Yes, Virginia, We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes
There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that there's nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes.
Quebec’s Fight Is Our Fight
The debt obligation of Canadian university students, even with Quebec's proposed 82 percent tuition hike over several years, is dwarfed by the huge university fees and the $1 trillion …
Alan Simpson: The Washington Elite’s Attack Dog
Alan Simpson once again launched an obscenity-laden diatribe against those who oppose his plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Lessons From the Victory at Sotheby’s
Choose allies carefully. Plan, but don't overplan. Non-hierarchical leadership works.
Justice Roberts Fixes Supreme Court Schedule; Will Help Romney, Big Business Dominate Election
Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped bring even more corporate money into politics, has already made history. Outside groups have spent record amounts influencing the 2012 …
Nuclear Disarmament at an Impasse
In Vienna, countries armed with nuclear weapons clearly expressed their refusal to commit themselves in a process of nuclear disarmament
Noam Chomsky | Somebody Else’s Atrocities
In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us - whoever us is. Almost any moment in history yields innumerable illustrations. …
America’s Opiate War: The Medical Luddites vs. People in Pain
With frightening hubris, narcs from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are now muscling into the practice of medicine.
How Our Government Incentivizes the Overproduction of Junk Food
Americans need their tax dollars spent on providing food that will make us healthy, not food that's tied to the obesity epidemic.