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Huffington gets facts wrong in switch to Left
Comments | RecommendShe was once the darling of conservatives like Newt Gingrich, but now you can't watch a television news-talk program without seeing her calling for more government and showing scorn for those who want less....
Barack Obama purely a theoretic politician
Comments | Recommend“Theoretic politicians, who have patronized [pure democracy], have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions,...
Obama shows a positive and a negative in interview
Comments | RecommendIn Barack Obama's recent hourlong interview with Chris Wallace, on Fox-TV — an interview I managed to sit all the way through (yes, it was a chore, given how much of it was empty rhetoric) — the senator advanced one promising idea and also...
Senate Republicans block fair pay for workers
Comments | RecommendLast year the Supreme Court’s Judge Samuel Alito wrote the “Ledbetter decision,” which makes it easier for businesses to employ discriminatory pay practices with virtual legal impunity. This was another in a long line of big business...
Unraveling the myths of safety regulations
Comments | RecommendUnless the government watches closely, the airlines will kill you....
Political parties are indispensable to good citizenship
Comments | RecommendNo institution comes under more attack than our political parties, yet they are necessary for our republican form of government. Let us consider not only how and why political parties are necessary but why we as citizens are better off for their pivotal...
Wesley Snipes, a victim of tax extortion
Comments | RecommendActor Wesley Snipes, known mostly for action pictures, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, on tax-evasion charges. This was deemed a victory for prosecutors by some in the media -- so much for objective reporting -- because prosecutors "sought...
Clinton attacks base of Democratic Party
Comments | RecommendWhile Barack Obama is still feeling the sting of comments he made to a group of supporters in San Francisco several weeks back, referring to some voters as feeling disaffected by politics as usual, and thus being "bitter" and "clinging" to particular...
Greens like idea of renewable energy, balk at reality
Comments | RecommendAn environmental coalition called Californians for Solar and Clean Energy has submitted more than 700,000 signatures for an initiative measure that would compel the state’s utilities to use renewable sources for 40 percent of their electric power...
Let's not call the credit crisis and crisis
Comments | Recommend"Mortgage Crisis," shouts the New York Times. The Times has used the term "subprime crisis" at least 11 times. Not in opinion columns -- in news stories....
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