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  • Mortgage crisis stoked by incredible greed

    Mortgage crisis stoked by incredible greed

    August 17, 2007 By Susan Webb

    Baton Rouge, La., Kansas City, Mo., and Bethlehem, Pa., are far from Wall Street, but they are among the ground zeros in the financial crisis now grabbing headlines. It’s a crisis caused, some say, by “incredible...

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  • The American Revolution revisited

    The American Revolution revisited

    August 10, 2007 By John Gilman

    Are those who sing our national anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner,” and those who enjoy the huge fireworks displayed over our entire nation every July 4 really aware of the significance of this historic holiday?

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  • Solving New Orleans health care crisis

    Solving New Orleans health care crisis

    August 10, 2007

    The post-Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans has ripped the mask off the ruling class. Unlike a festive Mardi Gras unmasking, the greed, racism, arrogance and brutality of the Bush administration and the class whose interests it...

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  • EDITORIAL: Bonds did it

    EDITORIAL: Bonds did it

    August 10, 2007

    Barry Bonds finally claimed baseball’s all-time home-run record, hitting his 756th homer on Aug. 7. Enter haters. The next day, the New York Post’s Brian Costello qualified Bonds’ accomplishment by referring to him as the “Sultan...

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  • EDITORIAL: No to warrantless spying

    EDITORIAL: No to warrantless spying

    August 10, 2007

    Last week, Congress gave in to a campaign of Bush administration fear-mongering and approved the Protect America Act by a vote of 60-28 in the Senate and 227-183 in the House. Bush immediately signed the bill...

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