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The Gulf clean up and jobs
June 10, 2010I think MSNBC's Chris Matthews was right in calling for the creation of a Civilian Conservation Corp to put thousands of young people to work cleaning up the Gulf.
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As November nears, Texas GOP gets weirder
June 10, 2010The great State of Texas has always been an asylum for colorful characters, but something is burnishing those colors to high gloss of late.
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Union baiting equals hating
June 9, 2010A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
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Mob protest at Ground Zero takes aim at Bill of Rights
June 8, 2010NEW YORK - An angry mob showed up in lower Manhattan to protest the opening of an "extremist Islamic center that aims to mock the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and create an army of jihadists...
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BP and disaster capitalism
June 7, 2010A Gulf Coast disaster has again shocked an entire nation. The callous corporate disregard for safety, workers' lives and environmental devastation is infuriating and mind-boggling.
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