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Corporate Overkill: Wendy’s Tries to Grill a Burger in the Lab
At first blush, you might think that "Dave's Hot 'N Juicy" is the title of a pornographic movie. Actually, it's only a hamburger. Well, not just any …
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The Reign of the One Percenters: Income Inequality and the Death of Culture in New York City
For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his …
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Save the American Dream by Fighting the Plutocracy
Thousands rally to defend worker rights in Wisconsin, then nearly a million force a referendum in Ohio to repeal a similar assault. Tens of thousands fill congressional town meetings …
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The American Jobs Depression, and How to Get Out of It
The Reverend Al Sharpton and various labor unions have announced a March for Jobs. But I’m afraid we’ll need more than marches to get jobs back. Since …
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Why Are the Governors of America Saying Such Dumb Things?
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue at a highway dedication, September 26, 2011. Perdue set off a firestorm of criticism with comments to a Rotary Club meeting suggesting "...we ought …
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Would the Founders Back Health Law?
Today’s American Right is fond of pushing the idea of “originalist” thinking by the Founders to rally opposition to government initiatives that address modern-day problems. The claim is that …
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Edmund Burke and American Conservatism
It has become a truism that modern American conservatism is revolutionary in the sense that it seeks to overturn the established order rather than to preserve it. “Reagan Revolution,” …
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Gandhi’s Lesson for Today
(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …
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The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform
(Photo: www.seniorliving.org) Warren Buffett recently enraged the right by chastising Congress for "coddling" millionaires and billionaires. In a widely quoted op-ed, he urged lawmakers to "raise rates …
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The “People’s Microphone“
As the "Audacity of Hope" leaches away from the reality-based community, Americans engaged in social movement activity are finally catching up with their brothers and sisters in other parts …