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As “Right to Work” Law Looms, Indiana Occupiers Join With Limestone Strikers
An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college …
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New Hampshire’s New Scopes Trial
New Hampshire took an early lead this year in the effort to dumb down school students and erode the separation of church and state in the education system by …
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Dispatch from Detention: A Rare Look Inside Our “Humane” Immigration Jails
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Sam Kitching, a soft-spoken, round old man dressed in civilian clothes who works for the Sheriff’s department at the …
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New Hampshire Primary Outcome Rests on Independents
Windham, New Hampshire - The outcome of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary probably depends on this state's historically flinty, unpredictable independent voters. About 40 percent of the state's …
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For Iranians Waylaid by Pirates, US to the Rescue
Aboard the fishing vessel al Mulahi, in the Gulf of Oman - Senior Iranian military officials this week bluntly warned an American aircraft carrier that it would confront the …
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Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
Washington, DC - Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins …
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Fallujah Babies: Birth Defects Blamed on US Weapons
Fallujah, Iraq - While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two …
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Matt Damon and Mother Reject Union’s Award Over Teach for America Controversy
The actor Matt Damon and his mother, a professor of education, on Wednesday turned down the opportunity for an award from the country’s largest teachers union after reading an …
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Santorum to Mother of Cancer Survivor: Sick to Blame for Pre-Existing Conditions Should Be Charged More
During a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning, Rick Santorum told a mother whose son survived cancer that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health …
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On the News with Thom Hartmann: Public Sector Layoffs Nibbling Away at Employment Recovery, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…