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Is Mitt Romney Ready for the World?
If current polls are correct, Mitt Romney seems likely to become the 2012 Republican presidential candidate and the next president of the United States. Therefore, we should carefully …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Police Violently Crackdown on Occupy Boston, and More
In today's On the News segment: Police crack down on Occupy Boston, Senate to vote on Obama's job plan, more than six million unemployed Americans could lose their benefits …
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A Delicate Moment for the Occupy Wall Street Movement
A group of children from Central Park East One and Two schools join demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, New York, October 10, 2011. (Photo: …
Grounds for Common Cause Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? An Interview With Timothy P. Carney
Wall Street protest on September 26, 2011, in New York's Financial District. (Photo: _PaulS_) Last week, I challenged libertarian populist writers for The Washington Examiner, who had …
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HB 56 Hurts Alabama’s Economy More Than It Helps
In all the debate surrounding Alabama's new immigration law, no one debates that it is the toughest in the nation. With Alabamian unemployment flirting with 10 percent and poverty …
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Occupy Austin: This Is Just the Beginning
Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo: Occupy Austin) Austin - Occupy Austin attracted the young, who found it new and wonderful, and the old, who found …
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Bank of America Versus America the Beautiful
A public hew and cry has arisen against the announced plan of major banks to charge depositors three to five dollars a month for the use of debit cards …
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Obama’s Failing Emails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?
For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn — slightly limp reminders of the last time ‘round. Four years …
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When Industry Pollutes, We All Pay a Steep Price
The Mountaineer power plant, a coal-burning facility in West Virginia. (Photo: Kevin Riddell / The New York Times) Economics professors Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and …
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Coming Demise of Crony Capitalism
In 1978, to the laughter of many and the derision of a few, I wrote a book called, “The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism,” which predicted that Soviet communism …