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Membership in Unions Supporting Obama on Keystone Rejection Outnumbers Those Against
Washington - A barrage of industry-led advertising and lobbying urging President Obama to “put jobs ahead of politics” has fueled the impression that labor unions universally champion the Keystone …
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Hypocrisy: Romney Maintained Massachusetts Contraception Requirement That Mirrors Obama’s Rule
Mitt Romney has launched a petition accusing the Obama administration of “using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious …
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Syngenta PR’s Weed-Killer Spin Machine: Investigating the Press and Shaping the “News” about Atrazine
(Photo: pppspics) Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, reveal how the global chemical company's …
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US Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half
Baghdad - Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned …
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Santorum Wins Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri, Shakes Up GOP Race (2)
Washington - Rick Santorum seized an important opportunity Tuesday to become the chief conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, as he made a clean sweep of three Republican presidential nomination …
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Santorum Wins Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, Shakes Up GOP Race
Former Sen. Rick Santorum speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Washington - Rick Santorum seized an important opportunity Tuesday to become …
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The “Legislative Wall”: Dick Armey’s Top Five Tea Party Republican Candidates
As most independent groups focus on the presidential nomination contest, FreedomWorks for America is focused on electing far-right Republicans to the U.S. Senate. The independent-expenditure-only super PAC is part …
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California’s Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional – Again
Opponents of Proposition 8, a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, react after news of the ban being knocked down in court, outside the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals …
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Agribusiness Fights to Allow Children to Work in Manure Pits
Most child labor was prohibited in 1938, but there are a few exceptions for certain industries where children are still allowed to work.
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Big News on Bank Transfers
Two summers ago, at the U.S. Social Forum, I attended a panel discussion about ways to expand the use of credit unions as alternatives to the “too big to …