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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s easy to laugh off the weekend’s Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin show at the Lincoln Memorial. But don’t laugh just yet. The rally was a major event in the right wing’s effort to take over Congress and the presidency.
Posted on Aug 30, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — Fox News and its boss, Roger Ailes, along with Karl Rove and unlimited corporate campaign contributions, pose an enormous threat to President Barack Obama and Democratic candidates this fall.
Posted on Aug 23, 2010
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AP / Eric Risberg
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By Bill Boyarsky — When public discourse is so dominated by hysterical sound bites of religious intolerance and xenophobia, it is inspiring to read federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s ruling overturning Proposition 8, the California voter initiative banning same-sex marriage.
Posted on Aug 16, 2010
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — Broadway and Central Avenue in the Watts area of South Los Angeles are lined with dozens of small, marginal businesses, but hardly any banks. In a capitalist economy, these are streets without capital, losers in the race to the top.
Posted on Aug 9, 2010
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — When the health care law is fully implemented in 2014, it will cure many of the ills that plague those needing medical care. That, however, may be too long a wait for a troubled country, especially one faced with intractable unemployment and a fruitless, unpopular Afghanistan war.
Posted on Aug 2, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — The release of 92,000 pages of secret military documents by the website WikiLeaks points to the futility of the war in Afghanistan and the double-dealing of our so-called ally Pakistan.
Posted on Jul 26, 2010
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AP / Cody Duty
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By Bill Boyarsky — Among the most powerful interests backing immigration reform are the conservative, capitalistic U.S. Chamber of Commerce, fast-food restaurant chains and big agribusiness firms.
Posted on Jul 19, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — The news coverage of the Obama administration’s efforts to stop the Arizona immigration law is missing the point by focusing on politics rather than the merits of the federal government’s case.
Posted on Jul 12, 2010
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AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari
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By Bill Boyarsky — Death wish isn’t too extreme a phrase to describe the Republicans’ recent conduct. What else could explain their behavior this summer?
Posted on Jul 5, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — After last week’s two-day congressional hearing on the Afghanistan war, I have two questions: One, why did Gen. David Petraeus faint under questioning? Two, why are we still in Afghanistan?
Posted on Jun 20, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — A lot of pundits want President Barack Obama to turn terrible tempered in his handling of the Gulf of Mexico disaster. These critics ignore the real issue—the death grip the oil industry has on Washington and the state capitals of oil-producing states.
Posted on Jun 9, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — Perhaps President Barack Obama should be thankful for the bad news—the oil spill, intractable unemployment and the rest—for it has definitely diverted attention from his biggest disaster: the Afghanistan war.
Posted on May 28, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — As President Barack Obama, speaking last week in Buffalo, N.Y., was assuring the country that “our economy is growing again,” the usual large number of unemployed lined up at a community aid center in Los Angeles for food, clothing, advice and help finding a job.
Posted on May 17, 2010
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Afghanistan war, along with Iraq, has become a chronic illness that America has learned to ignore. News of the sick economy, natural and human-made disasters and momentary sensations flashes across cable news screens and the Internet, leaving hardly any space for the war.
Posted on May 7, 2010
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AP / Guillermo Arias
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By Bill Boyarsky — This is much more than an immigrant issue. Giving police the authority to stop a person on the “reasonable suspicion” he or she is an illegal immigrant clears the way for the arrest of anyone. Other states are likely to follow with their own police-state rules.
Posted on Apr 28, 2010
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