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By Robert Scheer — It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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By Robert Scheer — The whole thing is nuts. The economy is a shambles, saved from a free fall only by the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented promise of free money for banks for at least two years.
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AP / Richard Drew
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By Robert Scheer — The die has been cast. Obama’s deal to raise the debt ceiling is a disaster in the making.
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AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Robert Scheer — Republican hypocrites are out to settle ideological scores that have nothing to do with the debt they themselves ran up.
Posted on Jul 27, 2011
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — Obama’s gutless decision to abandon Elizabeth Warren comes after the president populated his administration with the very people who created the financial meltdown.
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — These threatened programs are not government handouts to a privileged class, like defense contractors and bailed-out bankers, who do feel eminently entitled to pig out at the federal trough.
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AP / Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Scheer — Face it. We live in two nations, sharply divided by an enormous economic chasm between the super-rich and everyone else. This should be an obvious fact of life for most Americans.
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AP / Paul Sakuma
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By Robert Scheer — Scalia’s opinion is actually quite thrilling in enunciating an extremely broad definition of the free speech rights of minors. But it is simply bizarre in dismissing the claimed harmful effects of violent depictions while still insisting on the strictest puritanical view of the dangers of sexual imagery.
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AP / Jacquelyn Martin
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By Robert Scheer — Endorsing the Republican agenda of financial industry deregulation, reversing New Deal safeguards, President Clinton pursued policies that in the long run created more damage to the American economy than any other president since Herbert Hoover.
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AP / Jim Cole
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By Robert Scheer — Not one of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination who debated Monday night rose to a point of seriousness in addressing the nation’s grievous problems. Instead, they ever so playfully thumbed their collective noses at any possible meaningful government reaction to the mess that we are in.
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AP / Alex Brandon
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By Robert Scheer — How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad groin. Otherwise we don’t stand a chance of reversing this administration’s economic policy, which is shaping up to be every bit as disastrous as that of its predecessor.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — What was Timothy Geithner thinking back in 2008 when, as president of the New York Fed, he decided to give Goldman Sachs a $30 billion interest-free loan as part of an $80 billion secret float to favored banks? The sordid details of that program were finally made public this week in response to a court order for a Freedom of Information Act release, thanks to a Bloomberg News lawsuit.
Posted on May 31, 2011
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By Robert Scheer — It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin’s book “Too Big to Fail” was “Too Boring to Watch.” On the contrary, the problem with the film, as with the richly anecdotal book, is that it is all too effectively misleading.
Posted on May 24, 2011
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AP / Frank Franklin II
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By Robert Scheer — The fix was in to let Wall Street off the hook once and for all for its role in the Great Recession ... until last week when the attorney general of New York refused to go along.
Posted on May 17, 2011
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — Pity Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the Republican right wing led by the forlorn slate of candidates gearing up to challenge Barack Obama in the next presidential election.
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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