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Financial Records Suggest Cain Campaign Received Illegal Corporate Funding
As campaign reporters react to Politico’s bombshell allegation that GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed two former employees, Daniel Bice reveals potentially groundbreaking financial records suggesting the the …
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Were US Elections Sold to Corporations So Clarence Thomas Could Reward His Friends?
When Clarence Thomas took his seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, things were not looking good for him. Anita Hill, a former employee of Thomas' at the …
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Will Federal Refinancing Program Help States Most in Need?
San Francisco - Nearly 1 million struggling homeowners nationwide could get a lifeline to stave off foreclosure, thanks to changes to a federal housing program. The …
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Sacred, Moral, Evil: Should Freethinkers Shun or Claim the Language of Spirituality?
On reading an early draft of Trusting Doubt, which looks at my old Evangelical beliefs from my current vantage as a nontheist, one reviewer commented, “This is a very …
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Demand to Get the Money Out of Politics: A “One Demand” for Occupy Wall Street?
There is one problem with many of the excellent demands and proposals I have seen floated by those in the OWS movement, from re-instating Glass-Steagall, to ending the Federal …
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As Meeting Approaches, Fed Panel Is Divided on Direction
Washington - When the Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 of the 10 voting members will arrive in open disagreement with the chairman, Ben S. …
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Obama Tries to Speed Response to Shortages in Vital Medicines
Washington - President Obama will issue an executive order on Monday that the administration hopes will help resolve a growing number of critical shortages of vital medicines used to …
Shalit Is Free. Lift the Siege of Gaza Now
In the world of principle and international law, the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza - which, until now, blocks Gazans from traveling to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, …
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Occupy Protest at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London Divides Church
London - In a city where demonstrations of every kind are part of the daily syncopation, there has rarely been any with quite the same potential for amplifying the …
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Election Systems & Software Attempts to Block Independent Audit of Failed Touch-Screens
Despite failing to object for months prior, the nation's largest electronic voting system vendor, ES&S, is now attempting to stop a landmark independent examination of their e-voting systems in …