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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., praises the President’s agreement with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts. “If…
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Bill now awaits action by the House By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray From The Washington Post A sweeping tax package negotiated by the White House and Republican leaders sailed…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A Miami-based exile organization is launching a campaign to abolish the death penalty in Cuba according to a story in El Nuevo Herald (“Lanzan…
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By Saul Landau Julian Assange should write a new cookbook, and a certain best-seller. Take a Leak* would offer not only recipes about what to do with that rarely used political…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times Like it or not — and I don’t — the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal, with its mixture of very bad stuff and sort-of-kind-of good stuff, is likely…
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By Bill Press I'll bet you didn't know that the mayors of Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, and Columbus, Ohio -- as well as the…
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By Arturo Lopez Levy From The Havana Note From its title “Cuba’s Jewish hostage”, the Washington Post editorial of last Tuesday, December 7, about the situation of Alan Gross is an…
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Results may have been a vote against the status quo By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen From The Washington Post Republicans made major gains in the November elections, but they have yet to win…
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By Josh Rogin From Foreign Policy Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, isn't wasting any time in pressing for…
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A New York Times editorial Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is one of the new Republican lawmakers swept into office last month on a promise to change the ways of Washington. “If we look…
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