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Power Running Amok: Strauss-Kahn and John Ensign
There are major differences between the rape charges alleged against (soon to be former) IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Senator John Ensign’s illegal buying off of his lover’s husband....
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Protecting the Rich: the Employment Future?
A noted political scientist Sam Bowles (The Santa Fe Institute) has estimated that one third of employed Americans are working to protect private property and that means, inevitably, of the very...
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Contraception and Scare Power
In what was called an “accommodation” Obama made it clear in a February 10 press conference that all women would have access to free contraceptives but offered through their insurance companies and not...
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AUTHORITARIANISM AS PREACHED BY SANTORUM AND ROMNEY
Newly invested Cardinal Timothy Dolan has called on Catholics to be very active in the political sphere, condemning President Obama for daring to tell Catholics they should listen to enlightened voices...
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Who Are the Real “Gift Takers”?
The Republicans have invented the idea that the election was bought by gifts from the government to “urban” voters― that 47 percent of the population who are “takers” as opposed to Republicans, who are...
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Newtown Massacre: What “Conversation” ?
We live in political times of extreme intolerance for the views of others. The media increasingly negotiate the resulting political minefields and dodge the sniper fire by framing what they are doing...
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OUR MORAL IMPERATIVE
Our Moral Imperative by Dan Rupli Neckties have never made any sense to me. They serve no practical purpose whatsoever, and over the years, a good quality silk necktie can now cost about as much as I...
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In Memory of Pete Seeger
It might have been out of a dream, but it really happened. I can’t put a precise date on it, but Ronald Reagan was President, and he was constantly reminding us that “government is the problem” and...
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