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1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future)…
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By Mark Engler NEW YORK - International progress in recovering from the economic downturn of recent years has been sluggish. But there is growth in at least one sector: The…
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By Bill Press I don't have to tell you. Politics has sunk lower than ever before. All we see from the Obama campaign are negative ads. And this, despite the fact that, back in April…
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By Saul Landau Gore Vidal died July 31. In 2005, I interviewed him for my weekly TV-radio show Hot Talk. We had first met years before at a dinner party at Marc Raskin’s house…
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By Saul Landau As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang…
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By Mark Weisbrot President Obama is currently confronting mostly Republican opponents over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of taxpayers. Between…
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By Bill Press For me, the first sentence of a New York Times article, the Monday after the Aurora, Colo., shooting, says it all: "Unhindered by federal background checks or…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are…
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By Saul Landau Savage=not domesticated or cultivated; wild. In June and July the war on drugs proceeded apace as DEA agents and Honduran military goons knocked off some Miskitu…
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By Jilian Mincer From Reuters For generations, most college-bound Americans paid reasonable fees to attend publicly financed state universities. But the bedrock of that system is…
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