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  • Marx taken seriously, at last!

    Marx taken seriously, at last!

    May 21, 2009

    DALLAS — In its Sunday, May 17, edition, the Dallas Morning News ran a full-page color spread extolling Karl Marx for his economic abilities. A careful reading of the article by Canadian political economist Leo Pavitch...

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  • Gun foes blast vote to allow firearms in national parks

    Gun foes blast vote to allow firearms in national parks

    May 21, 2009

    Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, today blasted the gun lobby for “hijacking” the credit card reform bill by sneaking in an amendment to permit gun owners to carry loaded...

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  • Montana mayor says his town will take 100 Gitmo prisoners

    Montana mayor says his town will take 100 Gitmo prisoners

    May 21, 2009

    Dick Cheney is slamming the Obama administration for its plan to close the notorious Guantanamo military prison. Cheney claimed this week that he didn’t “know a single congressional district in this country that is going to...

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  • Science behind Angels and Demons

    Science behind Angels and Demons

    May 21, 2009

    Will human-made black holes destroy the world? Could artificially created anti-matter be an alternative source of energy? Did Al Gore really invent the World Wide Web? Do super-secret super-sonic jets that can cross the Atlantic Ocean...

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  • Baseball bats & CEOs

    Baseball bats & CEOs

    May 20, 2009

    Who doesn’t revel when reading a story about a grandmother who bonks a bandit on the head with a baseball bat? Yet I have to wonder why white-collar bandits are treated with some kind of “code...

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