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What Happens When Pretending to Be Crazy Is a Career Strategy
Polls indicate that many Republican voters still believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) …
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Three Dead Bodies (2)
On January 11, 2011, Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutairi was reportedly beaten and tortured to death by members of the Kuwaiti police force (part of Kuwait's Ministry of Interior). …
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The Health Economy – The Alternative to Federal Government Shutdown
Editor's Note: the author's book The Health Economy was introduced to Culture Change readers on Nov. 17, 2010, but it is now in a new e-book edition. The Health Economy …
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Ireland’s Road To Ruin … and Ours
The “Celtic Tiger” — the Irish economy — has clawed its way back from near extinction, according to the Heritage Foundation. The irony is that the things that Heritage …
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America’s Radical “Conservatism“
Editor’s Note: Since Ronald Reagan stepped onto the national political stage in the 1970s, American “conservatism” has operated in an increasingly radical, anti-empirical and paranoid style, putting the social …
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In Libya, Diplomacy Could Save Lives and the World Economy
A funeral procession in Ajdabiya, Libya, on Thursday, March 3, 2011, is held for opposition fighters killed the day before in nearby Brega. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New …
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Three Dead Bodies
On January 11, 2011, Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutairi was reportedly beaten and tortured to death by members of the Kuwaiti police force (part of Kuwait's Ministry of Interior). …
The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End
Whatever the outcome, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be transformed.
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Bob Pollin Busts the Overpaid Public Employee Lie
It keeps getting recited as if it is holy writ: Public sector employees have better pay and benefits than private sector employees. And with that belief firmly planted in …
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Dr. King and the Tea Party (2)
February may have been Black History Month, but let's be honest: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a problem. He was always challenging governments, challenging …