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Romney Runs Away From His Running Mate
Ryan's Medicare-gutting budget won't win voters outside the fringe right Romney courted in the primary.
The United States’ Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence
The US empire's taxpayer-funded secret operatives foment the very instability that allows them to continue to proliferate like cockroaches.
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Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way
He was already telling me about the very important book — with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy …
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Small Government or Smallish-Sort-of-Mediumish-Nicer-Better Government
It couldnu2019t hurt for the Democrats to have a decent response to the small-government attack line, and that starts with having some kind of understanding of what the federal …
Stand Together as Friends of 30 Million Afghans
Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain …
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First-Term New York State Senator, Mark Grisanti Takes Cue From Romney/Gingrich/Santorum Playbook
The sole message of [a recent] mailing was that Grisanti was one of the co-sponsors of a bill to stop welfare recipients from using their benefit cards to make …
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Prop 37 Solution to Walmart’s Untested, Unlabeled, Toxin Spliced Corn
The genetically engineered sweet corn, which has also been manipulated at the DNA level to withstand pesticides that are sprayed on it, has never been proven safe.
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Eight Problems With Common Core State Standards
Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it.
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Robert Reich: Mitt’s 13 Percent Tax
Romneyu2019s alleged 13 percent tax rate is lower than that of most middle class Americans who earn a tiny fraction of what he earns.
Blaming the Mirror: Lolo Jones and US Public Education
P.L. Thomas explains that Lolo Jones and other female Olympians are not the problem, they are a reflection of what the American people have come to expect.