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Rick Santorum’s Plans For America
Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who is fast coming to the fore. He won the Republican primary in Iowa (albeit by …
Attacking Iran Makes No Sense, but Netanyahu Might Do It Anyway
The most strenuous objection to an Iranian attack by Israel comes from recently retired Mossad head Meir Dagan, who called attacking Iran “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” …
Fracking Industry Colludes With Pennsylvania Legislature to Create Dangerous New Law
A photo of natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania, taken in August 2009 for shaleshock.org. (Photo: Attorney Helen Slottje) Pennsylvania's state legislature has effectively signed a death …
The Right-Wing Id Unzipped
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, …
Policy Follies in the Housing Market: The First-Time Homebuyers’ Tax Credit
The right is very good at making progressives pay for their mistakes. They still trot out failed programs from the '60s as a warning of the risks of wrongheaded …
Islamophobes in Blue
New York City police officers were shown a movie called The Third Jihad which warns that ordinary Muslims are part of an age-old conspiracy to dominate the world. The …
Occupiers in Conservative Texas City Have Support of Mayor, Some Tea Partiers
Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall Street, Los Angeles, UC Davis and Oakland, they have managed to …
Liars for Yahweh! How the Tikun Olam Charter School Got a $600,000 Federal Grant
Question: How does a charter school whose multiple applications have been riddled with lies and misrepresentations and has been rejected three times by a state education department get approved …
Army Officer’s Leaked Report Rips Afghan War Success Story
U.S. soldiers look on after detonating explosives to destroy a Taliban bunker spotted earlier by helicopters in Kandahar Province in 2011. (Photo: Michael Kamber / The New York Times) …
James O’Keefe: Investigating Voter Fraud, or Just a Fraud?
James O'Keefe in a booking photo released by U.S. Department of Justice. (The New York Times) James O'Keefe and his band of co-conspirators at his ironically named …