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Let Them Eat Cat Food
President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over ”painful” choices and considering all options in their quest to …
Jim Hightower | Shut Up and Eat Your Sugar
OK, children, homework time. Let's see if we can handle this little lesson in logic. One, America has a rather huge child obesity problem. Two, major food corporations constantly …
Chile Miners Have Country Rallying Around Hope of Rescue
Up and down the capital of Santiago, drivers honked their horns as news emerged that the 33 trapped Chile miners remain alive. Helping the miners persevere mentally may now …
Fiddling While the US Economy Burns
We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record. The stock market …
Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Presence
Washington, - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by …
Social Security: The Republicans Are Right
President Obama comments on Social Security privatization in the last week sound like something that he stole from the playbook of the last Democrat in the White House. Just …
News in Brief: CIA May Have Been Pakistan Pawn, and More
CIA May Have Unwittingly Undermined Taliban-Afghanistan Peace
Clearing the Air on States’ Rights
There’s been some heavy breathing from several states on the U.S. administration’s plans to regulate greenhouse gases, and their bluster may butt up against White House bluffing.
Are Arizona’s Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency?
Why did Arizona's two main gubernatorial candidates, Gov. Jan Brewer, former secretary of state/head of elections, who contracted for highly criticized and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems, …
Egg Recall: Supplier Reported to Have History of Health, Safety Violations
Two farms that recalled some 450 million potentially-tainted eggs have links to an Iowa businessman who “has been cited for numerous health, safety, and employment violations over the years,” …