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Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics
Pin Point, Georgia - Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose grandfather once ran a seafood cannery that …
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Been to a Nursing Home Lately?
(Photo: Ulrich Joho / Flickr) With Republicans in the Senate and Congress almost unanimous about wanting to terminate Medicare and Medicaid, I think it’s time we all …
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Chamber of Commerce, Wrong Again
Every year since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce publishes its hit list of proposed legislation it labels “job killers.” The list includes legislation to protect consumers, workers …
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How Spain Launched a Revolution
Just a few months ago, Spain was like much of the Western world: quietly struggling with the economic crisis and the social cuts government took to deal with it. …
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Fighting Against Those Who Rape
(Photo: Laurence Currie-Clark / Flickr) Devoted fans of the popular cop show can probably recite it in their sleep: "In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are …
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Agreement Reached on Bailout Package for Greece
London - After days of skyrocketing alarm among investors, the leaders of Europe's two heavyweights, France and Germany, reached agreement Friday on a key element of a second rescue …
US Neocons’ New Overtures to Terrorist Opposition Group in Iran, Part 2
Iranians protests the deaths in Ashraf. (Photo: Steven Damron / Flickr) Believing that it was strong enough to topple Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime, on June 19, 1981, …
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Karzai Says US in Peace Talks With Taliban
Kabul, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan launched a broadside against his coalition allies on Saturday, saying their motives were suspect, and repeated his assertion that the United …
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Administration Ends Health Care Waiver Program
Washington - The Obama administration is ending a controversial program that allowed employers to avoid a key requirement of the new federal health care law. Beginning in …