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Keeping Fear Alive: The Deficit Hawks Push Their Agenda
The deficit hawks must believe that they are in the home stretch of their drive to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits since they seem to be pulling out …
New Report: Racism Still Pollutes Tea Party Ranks
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), head of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, constantly dismisses charges about racism roiling within the ranks of the Tea Party, despite her fingerprints frequently …
Chris Hedges | The World Liberal Opportunists Made
The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is …
Measure to Legalize Marijuana Trails in California, if Polls Are Right
Los Angeles - If this is Friday, California's ballot measure to legalize marijuana use for adults must be ... losing? That, indeed, is the result of the latest poll …
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Warming Arctic Unlikely to Return to How It Was
Washington — New observations this year about snow, ice and temperatures support the conclusion that the Arctic is unlikely to return to the conditions known in the 20th century …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Scandal of 2010
Washington - Imagine an election in a Third World nation where a small number of millionaires and billionaires spent massive sums to push the outcome in their preferred direction. …
Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earth
This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do …
The Politicians Who Cried “Crisis“
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a well known Aesop fable that offers a moral about the dangers of lies. While this tale holds a simple but accurate message, …
California Passes Landmark Anti-Human Trafficking Law
Los Angeles, California - Setting the precedent for the rest of the nation and the world, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 657 - authored by Sen. Darrel Steinberg …
Britain’s Budget Cuts – Will the Bell Toll for Us?
This week, the British government announced plans to cut its military personnel by 10 percent, scrap 40 percent of the Army's artillery and tanks and withdraw all of its …