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Can she fill John Paul Stevens’ shoes?
By Bill Press
He was the liberal lion on the Supreme Court. And when John Paul Stevens resigned, liberals like me demanded that President Obama name another proud, unabashed,…
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Is the GOP an anti-immigrant Party?
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
That’s the question posed in a May 14, 2010, Washington Post column by Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Gerson…
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The Pakistan mess
By Saul Landau
Washington’s national security elite seethe and fume with resentment and frustration. Pakistan receives billions of U.S. aid dollars and remains a training ground for…
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Goldman Sachs publicly back financial reform — while dispatching army of lobbyists
(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpted version of an article that appeared in The Huffington Post produced by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.)
For all of Goldman Sachs’ professed…
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Should the left oppose Kagan for Supreme Court?
By Mark Engler
From Dissent Magazine
Answer me this: Do progressives have anything to lose by opposing Elena Kagan as too conservative to be a satisfactory pick for the Supreme…
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AP-Univision Poll: Immigration splits Americans
By Alan Fram
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigrants are a boon, not a burden to the country, a resounding majority of Hispanics say, according to an Associated Press-Univision Poll that…
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The death of the Tea Party movement
By Bill Press
Farewell to the Tea Party. It was fun while it lasted. It certainly got a lot of undue media attention. But it died a premature, yet welcome, death.
Ironically, what…
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GM’S con game
By Saul Landau
Joe, whose business has gone bad, borrows $100 from Mike. The next day he borrows another $100. Some months later, he pays Mike $100 and says:“Business has picked up.…
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The fire this time: The Gulf of Mexico disaster
By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com
The result of these converging factors—the mad rush for oil and the irresponsibility of BP and of the laissez-faire Bush-Cheney administration—has…
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Crist, Garcia challenge old order on Cuba politics in Florida
By John McAuliff
Florida politics have consistently crippled hopes for a rational U.S. policy on Cuba. The swing state mystique confounds Presidential candidates and PAC money from…
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