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Alarming election results in Germany
September 29, 2006NewsAnalysis How would the national coalition between Social Democrats and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats fare in her home state, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (often known as Meck-Pom) or in the nation’s capital, Berlin. How would the Left...
Read moreCHANGE CONGRESS ACTION ALERT 9/25/06
September 27, 2006Contact your congressional representatives and senators today to oppose the Republican legislative assault on immigrant rights, voting rights, and civil liberties.
Read moreFlim-flam financing in the housing Industry
September 22, 2006It’s 2004. You are finally doing OK. You have good credit, your family has two incomes and together you are grossing over $100,000 a year as you cruise into the 2004 election. The ’90s boom has...
Read moreBlitzkrieg effort to ram new anti-immigrant bills through Congress
September 22, 2006NewsAnalysisThe Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is pushing hard to get HR 4437, Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s vicious anti-immigrant bill which spurred this year’s huge immigrant rights marches, approved piecemeal by the House and Senate...
Read moreBrooks swings and misses
September 15, 2006New York Times columnist David Brooks weighed in on the origins of inequality in his column recently. While he wants to assure readers that inequality is not a serious issue, and not caused by policy, he...
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