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Wal-Mart Chairman Rob Walton: The Worst of the One Percent?
Brave New Films, the film studio that produced the ground-breaking documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” is holding an online vote to pick the “worst of the …
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Employer Health Costs Rise Faster Than Medicare
Much of the attention on the rising cost of health care has focused on unsustainable public outlay for programs like Medicare. The federal government — using tax dollars — …
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Ten Things Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Want You to Know About Him
Today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he is taking steps to consider becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2012. As Gingrich begins the …
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The Long Game: Payroll Taxes, Hostage-Taking, and Social Security
Yesterday Thom Hartmann and I discussed the proposal to extend and expand what Democrats have called the ‘payroll tax holiday.’ (Video is below.) There are no heroes in this …
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GOP Willing to Raise Payroll Taxes on 113 Million Households to Spare 345,000 Millionaires From Tiny Surtax
Senate Democrats yesterday introduced legislation — as they’ve been promising to — that would extend a soon-to-expire payroll tax cut, and pay for it by implementing a surtax on …
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Obama Hits the Road to Tout a Tax-Cut Plan Republicans Seem to Like
Washington - President Barack Obama jets to Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on Congress to extend and perhaps expand a payroll tax cut for another year …
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Beyond Choice: A New Framework for Abortion?
Every year I teach a class called “Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan” to a group of Princeton undergraduates made up of students drawn to ethical dilemmas—aspiring doctors, scientists, …
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British Inquiry Is Told Hacking Is Worthy Tool
London - He admitted that he and his colleagues hacked into people’s phones and paid police officers for tips. He confessed to lurking in unmarked vans outside people’s houses, …
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The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
"The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: For the Past Five Years, Major Banks Have Contributed More Than $300 Billion to the Coal Industry, and More
TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…