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Difficult victory
November 11, 2009Overcoming the intense lobbying efforts of the health insurance-industrial complex and their far-right "tea party" stormtroopers, which spent some $640,000 a day opposing health care reform, the American people and their organizations, especially their unions, mobilized...
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First Americans & all Americans
November 11, 2009Fulfilling a campaign pledge, President Obama met with nearly 400 leaders of Native American tribes, Nov. 5, at a White House Tribal Nations Conference.
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Mixed results in off-year election
November 5, 2009The bad news for Democrats early on election night, the loss of the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, was offset by the news in special congressional races.
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Rethinking national security
November 2, 2009Last week President Obama signed a military spending bill that begins to turn our nation in a new, better direction. But there is a long way to go.
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Keep pushing
October 29, 2009The people are not buying the false notion that so-called "free market" is the answer to all their problems.
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Deficit lies
October 29, 2009The Republican attacks on extending the economic stimulus, on universal health care, on climate change legislation and financial reform all make reference to the exploding deficit and to the burden an immense debt may place on...
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Generals aren’t in charge
October 21, 2009Recently the Republicans, determined to escalate the war in Afghanistan, have insisted that Gen. McChrystal, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, be called in to testify before Congress.
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We want our money back
October 21, 2009In a true democracy the finance industry would be the servant of the Main Street economy, not its master.
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