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September 11: A Day of Death and a Decade of Constitutional Crisis
While our nation's founding fathers were imperfect beings and left much to be desired, they anticipated our contemporary constitutional crisis. Nearly 250 years before our politicians began trading "essential …
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A Decade of Memorials Squandered?
A long time ago, I helped produce for public television an annual year's end interview with New York City Mayor Ed Koch. We always shot it in a private …
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Let’s Get Real on Jobs (3)
You know what's wrong with the American economy, Bucko? You, that's what. Yeah, yeah, it's true that the reckless global gambling schemes of Wall Street bankers are …
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The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussed
In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the …
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Uninsured by Ron Paul, His 2008 Campaign Manager Died Owing $400,000 for Medical Care
Ron Paul knows something about uninsured men dying without health insurance. Kent Snyder, who was Paul's 2008 presidential campaign manager, died on June 26 of that year without any …
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The Cult of Death
Attendees clap during the CNN Tea Party Republican Debate at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 12, 2011. Eight Republican presidential candidates squared off with host …
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A Lost Decade
"To govern is to choose, and the choices made [by the Bush Administration] in 2002 were fateful. The United States began that year shocked and wounded, but with tremendous …
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In Wake of GOP Gov. Christie’s Secret Meeting With Kochs, NJ Media Targets Top State Democrat Instead
During the billionaire Koch brothers' secret Summer Seminar near Vail, Colorado, on June 26th, their secret superstar keynote speaker, New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie, criticized President Barack Obama, …
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Ten Years of Capital Gains Tax Cuts Proves: Rich Win, You Lose
Why are “capital gains” taxes so much lower than taxes on other income? The reason capital gains taxes are lower is because most of the income of the rich …
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What the Future Will Remember About America’s Decline and Fall
1. Twin Towers Two years from now the staffs of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker will move into the most haunted building in the world. …