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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be -- after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special…
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By Bill Press First, there is no such thing as the tea party. There are, instead, at least 2,300 different organizations across the country that loosely identify themselves as "tea…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com It is one thing for the United States to emulate pre-Lula Brazil’s levels of economic inequality with a faux-compassionate conservative like…
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By Saul Landau Pundits, professional interpreters of events, have awarded the Republicans with a “legislative landslide” in the House, and declared the Democrats “brutally defeated.”…
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By Bill Press After the "shellacking" they took on Nov. 2, there's only one thing all Democrats agree on: Nancy Pelosi has to go! And there's no doubt why. She's a nice lady, but she…
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By Jackie Calmes From The New York Times WASHINGTON — A draft proposal to be released Wednesday by the chairmen of President Obama’s bipartisan commission on reducing the federal debt…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Next time you hear an economist or denizen of Wall Street talk about how the "American economy" is doing these days, watch your wallet.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Gushing with unrestrained ethnic pride, Miami Herald editorial page editor Myriam Marquez seemed to include all Cubans in celebrating the election…
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By Saul Landau “Stone” takes a hybrid Norman Rockwell-Grant Wood portrait of an aging mid western couple, adds two Quentin Tarantino characters who excel in manipulating and offers a…
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By Bill Press Even before the midterm elections, a lot of adjectives were used to describe American voters today. They are frustrated, disappointed, dissatisfied, disillusioned, and…
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