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Although America is back to making

North Korea is really not a significant threat compared to what the US is doing with nuclear weapons.

Paul Krugman: I guess I'm such a big guy that I'm an orthodoxy all by myself.

Thom Hartmann: It's time to stop propping up the banks, and end “too big to fail.”

The international community - including the US - must stand on the side of justice and the Haitian people.

Whatever the actual result, the Democrats and Republicans share similar enough visions that massive cuts to cherished social programs appear to be inevitable.

Corporations are taking a much bigger slice of total income, and are showing little inclination to invest it.

The GOP is trying to rig the Electoral College in what have historically been Blue or Democratic-voting states.

To those who would argue that the notion of a perpetual motion machine is impossible, we give you the revolving door - that ever-spinning entrance and exit between public …