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News in Brief: Koch Brothers-Funded Group to Launch Campaign Blaming Obama for Gas Prices, and More
Koch Brothers-Funded Group to Launch Campaign Blaming Obama for Gas Prices
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Rick Santorum’s 12 Most Offensive Statements
This morning, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (Republican) announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination, telling ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "We are ready to announce that we are going …
Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, US Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility on April 8, 2008. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently published an article in The New Yorker that says …
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change
People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and …
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Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, US Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux (2)
In his latest article for The New Yorker magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran’s nuclear and military …
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Who Created This Mess?
Not us, say the Republicans. “We didn't create this mess,” a Republican said to Tim Geithner in a meeting recently, referring to the national debt and the need to …
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Romney: The Canary in the GOP Coal Mine
Stratham, N.H.- The bales of hay were stacked strategically in the hope that they'd make it into the television screen. The sturdy white barn nearby provided an image worthy …
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Are We in the Process of Creating a New and Enduring American Underclass?
Corporate America appears to be prospering with far fewer workers than it employed before the crash. Wages are down, the stock market is up and firms are expanding their …
The Global Energy Crisis Deepens: Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life
Energy prospects are growing dimmer.
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Ryan Medicare Plan Puts GOP Candidates on the Spot
The question sounded simple enough: Would you vote for or against a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare? But Mike Haridopolos — president of the Florida state senate …