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Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:53 AM EST (The New York Times)
Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:48 AM EST (The New York Times)
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P.
BA passengers horrified when error message announces crash landing
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:20 PM EST ()
It's the situation every air passenger dreads. One minute you're snoozing happily in your seat 35,000 feet above the Atlantic and the next an emergency announcement comes over the speakers: "This is an emergency.
Turning America into Pottersville
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:59 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …
Is Private Equity Bad For the Economy?
Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:53 PM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
Mitt Romney's private equity record is suddenly the talk of the GOP presidential contest. What do we know about the industry he helped to create?
Appeals court rule Oklahoma Shariah ban unconstitutional
Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:02 PM EST (The Washington Post)
Oklahoma’s referendum against state judges considering Islamic law is unconstitutional, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (Jan. 10), upholding a lower court ruling that had blocked the measure.
The G.O.P.'s 'Black People' Platform
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:04 AM EST (The New York Times)
As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predictability.
ROBERT REICH: Here's What Happens To Countries That Stop Valuing The Public Good
Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 7:10 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet bu …
The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Libertarianism
Tue Jan 3, 2012 8:43 AM EST
With the growing popularity of Ron Paul and his libertarian agenda some libertarian’s think that their basic concept of the supremacy of the individual over the needs of the commons is somehow taking hold in the wider electorate.
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The Freedom To Oppress: Why Ron Paul's Old Racist Newsletters Matter
Seeded on Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:12 AM EST (Crooks and Liars)
Let's face it -- Ron Paul's lame denials about his repulsively racist and homophobic newsletters of the '80s and '90s on CNN should permanently lay to rest everyone's favorite myth about the man, i.e., that he's a "straight shooter" and an "honest man". No he's not.
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