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E.J. Dionne
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AP / Erich Schlegel
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By Bill Boyarsky — While Rick Perry was denouncing the federal government at Wednesday’s debate, he was also accepting all the financial assistance President Obama could offer his burning state.
Posted on Sep 7, 2011
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AP / John Bazemore
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By Bill Boyarsky — Republican spending knows no limits when it comes to going into debt for failed and useless wars. But it’s another story when it comes to providing federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Irene or other catastrophes we may face in the months ahead.
Posted on Sep 2, 2011
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Brooke Anderson (CC-BY)
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By Bill Boyarsky — The death of the Oakland Tribune symbolizes the contempt that newspaper publishers feel toward the communities they purportedly serve.
Posted on Aug 26, 2011
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AP / David J. Phillip
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By Bill Boyarsky — Gov. Rick Perry is a happy executioner, having presided over 230 executions in Texas. That’s more, reported The Texas Tribune, “than any other modern governor of any state.”
Posted on Aug 18, 2011
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AP / Nick Ut
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By Bill Boyarsky — The unrest tearing apart Britain greatly resembles that of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and conditions across the U.S. could set off a new explosion of violence.
Posted on Aug 11, 2011
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Photo graphic by PZS from President Eisenhower's official portrait
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By Bill Boyarsky — Obama’s Eisenhower nostalgia is troubling. That was half a century ago—before the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and federal aid to education.
Posted on Aug 4, 2011
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Bill Boyarsky — In today’s tight media economy, reporters tend to be young, overworked, underpaid, inexperienced journalists grateful for their jobs and afraid of being fired. Their bosses, no doubt, are just as fearful. These journalists are easy marks for campaign hacks with a story to sell.
Posted on Jul 25, 2011
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AP / Paul Beaty
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By Bill Boyarsky — There is a deep-rooted wrongheadedness about the Republicans as they drag the country toward fiscal disaster. Those afflicted with this harmful thinking range from tea party extremists like Michele Bachmann to pundits such as Peggy Noonan.
Posted on Jul 21, 2011
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AP / Susan Walsh
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By Bill Boyarsky — Rather than trying to conciliate the Republicans, Obama ought to speak out against them. The truth is that Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell don’t want to work with him.
Posted on Jul 14, 2011
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By Bill Boyarsky — Succeeding against all odds certainly describes Ana Ponce, chief executive officer of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, which runs five charter schools, the majority in the most crowded, impoverished and gang-ridden section of Los Angeles.
Posted on Jul 5, 2011
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr.
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By Bill Boyarsky — Barack Obama’s plan for a limited withdrawal from Afghanistan means tens of thousands of American troops will remain there, many of them fighting, for several years to come.
Posted on Jun 23, 2011
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AP / Jim Cole
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By Bill Boyarsky — Viewing the Republican presidential debate was two hours of sheer misery, mixed with a foreboding that one of these people could defeat President Barack Obama.
Posted on Jun 15, 2011
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AP / Jason Reed
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By Bill Boyarsky — The White House account of President Barack Obama’s meeting with his Afghanistan team was insultingly vague for anyone wanting to know when—or if—the Afghanistan war will end.
Posted on Jun 9, 2011
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By Bill Boyarsky — Remember the war, the one in Afghanistan? The recent Memorial Day weekend forced the news media to briefly focus on it. But otherwise the war and its heavy toll have faded from our national consciousness.
Posted on Jun 1, 2011
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AP / California Department of Corrections
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By Bill Boyarsky — Much as it did with the South regarding segregated schools and other public facilities in the Jim Crow days, the Supreme Court has ordered a recalcitrant California to obey the Constitution.
Posted on May 25, 2011
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