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Tea party picked the wrong flag
April 26, 2011Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law last week that provides special protected status for the tea party-adopted "Don't Tread on Me" flag.
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Extremist Westboro Church foiled in Mississippi
April 25, 2011When members of the far-right Westboro Baptist Church showed up in Brandon, Miss., April 16 to protest the funeral of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, local residents banded together.
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Five steps to get ready for 2012
April 22, 2011Politics is a complex and impure process, and as the Rolling Stones sang, "You can't always get what you want." Here are five crucial steps to get what we need.
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Union leaders urge: Act now to stop paycheck “protection” laws
April 14, 2011"This is about eliminating the organizations that represent people. With one vote they are trying to take away our rights."
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“Have you left no sense of decency?”
March 29, 2011In the midst of the battle in Wisconsin, the Republican Party has revived McCarthyism to attack William Cronon, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.
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