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By H.L. Mencken
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Obama’s community-minded worldview contrasts sharply with the highly individualistic and anti-government message that has been heard over and over from the Republicans seeking to replace him.
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
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By Barry Lando — Some bitter ironies in Afghanistan these days: U.S. and French soldiers gunned down by the very Afghan troops they work with. America and its NATO allies, facing huge budget problems themselves, persist in squandering billions in Afghanistan to defeat Islamic radicals and create a propitious climate for growth and investment. Right now, the largest investments so safeguarded are Chinese.
Posted on Jan 23, 2012
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Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — We can vote for Romney or Obama, but Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and Bank of America and the defense contractors always win. However, the iron grip of corporations over our lives will, eventually, be broken.
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By John Lasker — A PTSD victim looks for a day when the Army will reform the “boys’ club” atmosphere that makes women soldiers a target for discrimination, harassment and rape.
Posted on Jan 23, 2012
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Plan B / Teva Women's Health
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By Ellen Goodman — Sunday marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but the big news this year is the debate over the 1965 decision of Griswold v. Connecticut that made contraception legal.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012
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By Kim Barker, Politico —
Sure, there’s the GOP symbol, but the real elephant in the room has been the super PAC, the turbocharged political action committee able to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on political ads — as long as that spending isn’t coordinated with a particular campaign.
Posted on Jan 21, 2012
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Steve Rhodes (CC-BY)
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By Chase Madar, TomDispatch —
Throughout our decade-long foreign policy debacle in the Greater Middle East, we in the U.S. have generally agreed that no one shall commit the gaucherie of dwelling on civilian casualties. Club rules do, however, permit one loophole: Washington officials may bemoan the nightmare of civilian casualties if they can be pinned on a 24-year-old Army private first class named Bradley Manning.
Posted on Jan 21, 2012
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Bill Boyarsky — Given time and enough money, the super PACs and other secretive political campaign funds are capable of causing corruptive influence that could reach from the presidency down to the lowest ranked members of the House.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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democracynow.org
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Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard to our civil liberties.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Voters should support Romney, the narrator says, because “beating Obama is the most important issue.” Am I the only one to find that weird?
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
54 COMMENTS
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By David Sirota — The Texan’s candidacy is showing that the conventional definition of intolerable bigotry is disturbingly narrow—and embarrassingly selective.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
83 COMMENTS
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By Joe Conason — Who does Mitt Romney think he is fooling with this charade? Republicans are rightly concerned that his sense of entitlement, symbolized by the tax question, will damage their party’s chances next fall.
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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AP / Margarethe Wichert / dapd
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By Nomi Prins — The markets weren’t shocked by last week’s wave of pre-broadcast S&P sovereign debt downgrades. For months, the question wasn’t “if” but “when.” And true to form, just as with the U.S. downgrade, S&P’s reasoning skated the surface of prevailing wisdom.
Posted on Jan 19, 2012
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