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By David K. Shipler
Todd Gitlin
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AP/Elise Amendola
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By Robert Scheer — How fitting that Dan Quayle, a bumbling excuse for a vice president of the United States, should end up as a top executive of a $20 billion private equity firm mired in controversy.
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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AP/Michael S. Green
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By Robert Scheer — Where are Phil and Wendy Gramm hiding now that UBS, like Enron before it, has been nailed by the G-men?
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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AP/Patrick Semansky
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By Robert Scheer — The major news outlets that were thrilled to profit from the information that Bradley Manning uncovered are deeply afraid of being associated with the brave whistle-blower himself.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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AP/Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — Reports in the business press tout a prime participant in the great banking hustle as a possible candidate to be the next Treasury secretary.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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AP/Sandy Huffaker
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By Robert Scheer — The big news from the last election is that California, home to 12 percent of Americans and the world’s eighth-largest economy, is a model of rational political thought.
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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AP/Matt Rourke
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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AP/Jack Dempsey
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By Robert Scheer — I have been a harsh critic of the president, but a vote for Barack Obama in a swing state is a no-brainer.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hon
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By Robert Scheer — Won’t it be great to have someone in the mold of George W. Bush back in the White House?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney
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By Robert Scheer — Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about maximizing profit.
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Mark the name of R. Glenn Hubbard, the man who will make your life miserable if Mitt Romney is elected president.
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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AP/Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — Barack Obama must have done something right, or the hucksters at Goldman Sachs wouldn’t hate him so.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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AP/Charlie Neibergall
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By Robert Scheer — The presidential debate this week was much ado about nothing, and Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the wild applause for his disingenuous speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is a sure sign of the poverty of what passes for progressive politics.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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AP/Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — Forget Bernie Madoff and Enron’s Ken Lay—they were mere amateurs in financial crime.
Posted on Jul 6, 2012
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Mitt Romney and his advisers have not yet grasped that the health care decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts has changed the terms of the debate.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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