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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes Almost 50 years after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the university professor tuned in to his I-pod radio. A news bulletin interrupted "It's Make Believe…
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By Max J. Castro Wisconsin produces more cheese than Switzerland, and a steady supply of progressive politicians. Indeed, from the early decades of the 20th century – when Robert M.…
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By Bill Press There's crazy and then there's really crazy. But you know you're really, really crazy when you're too crazy or radioactive for Fox News. And that's the case with Glenn…
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Following is a prepared text of President Obama's debt-reduction speech, to be delivered on Wednesday at The George Washington University, as released by the White House: Good…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid…
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Luis Posada Carriles is acquitted in Texas In order to do him justice for the crimes he committed he must be extradited, affirms attorney José Pertierra By David Brooks…
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By Tim Padgett From the Global Spin blog Now that an El Paso, Texas, jury has acquitted Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles of perjury, the buzz back in Miami is that at least he got the…
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By Will Weissert From the Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A Texas jury has found an elderly ex-CIA agent from Cuba not guilty of all 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog I was there in 1995 when the government closed because of a budget stalemate. I had to tell most of the Labor Department's 15,600 employees to…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Many commentators swooned earlier this week after House Republicans, led by the Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, unveiled their budget…
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