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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
(Photo: Carolyn Tiry / Flickr) Barbara Stanwyck: “We're both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah - only you're a little more rotten.” -"Double Indemnity" (1944)
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Quick Things to Bring Manufacturing Jobs Home
Here is a fact about bipartisanship and civility in Washington: the Republicans in Congress will obstruct anything President Obama proposes to create jobs and help the economy, period. A …
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US Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges
Uxbridge, Canada - With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. …
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Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls
(Photo: United States Marine Corps / Flickr) John Fisher got his soul back when he visited a cemetery in Greece. Shelley Corteville felt “rocketed” …
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China Benefits as US Solar Industry Withers
Workers at Sun Zone Solar Power Inc., in Changsha, China, on September 3, 2010. (Photo: Timothy O'Rourke / The New York Times) Hong Kong - The bankruptcies …
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Files Note Close CIA Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit
Walid Musbah, a self-proclaimed fighter loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, in the custody of rebels near Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound, in Tripoli, Libya, Sept. 2, 2011. (Photo: Moises Saman …
How Prisons Imperil Black Voting Power in Post-Katrina Louisiana
A prison cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. (Photo: michele molinari / Flickr) New Orleans - Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious …
Will Top Obama Economist Fight for Jobs?
President Barack Obama speaks with Alan Krueger, a former Treasury Department official and Princeton economist, beside him in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Aug. 29, …
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US Files Suit Against Big Banks Over Mortgages
Federal regulators filed suit on Friday against more than a dozen leading banks, seeking billions in compensation for huge losses suffered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on mortgage-backed …
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Rick Perry: Consistently Wrong on Social Security
SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PONZI SCHEME Perry: Social Security “is a Ponzi scheme for these young people.” (Iowa Caucus Event at The Vine Coffeehouse, August 27, …