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Strom Thurmond: Relic of past overstayed his welcome
December 13, 2002What would you say about a man who once ran for president on a platform promising to end “social intermingling of the races”? Or who wrote a manifesto declaring a Supreme Court school integration decision didn’t...
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Rule of the pirates, the $ 200 billion payday exposing Bush, Cheney and Halliburton
December 13, 2002The figure had been bouncing around think tanks and Capitol Hill for months, and on Dec. 1 made the front page of The Washington Post: Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq will cost the American taxpayer...
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Campaign finance reform a flop
December 13, 2002Commentary The McCain-Feingold Election Finance Reform bill that underwent so much debate in Congress has continued its controversial status since becoming law, Nov. 6, the day after the elections. The law, although taking steps towards substantial...
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Clean air or stone wall?
December 13, 2002ARLINGTON, Tex. – Concerned North Texans found out how the state’s environmental regulatory agency manages to continue giveaways to corporate polluters while the proof piles in that we are slowly suffocating: they just pretend the data...
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November unemployment report: Not a pretty picture
December 13, 2002The nation’s unemployment rate shot up to 6 percent in November, the highest level since 1994. The increase from 5.7 percent in October came as more than 300,000 additional workers joined the ranks of the unemployed,...
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