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The Gasman came and has achieved the damage he was sent to do
A new Think Progress piece reports that: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) signed a disastrous state budget last night that favors the natural gas industry at the expense of the state’s children and...
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I heard a sound of exasperation over the bleating of the sheep and the growls...
With America’s recent and dismal unemployment report in his hand, Marshall Auerback, a heterodox economist, was prompted to exclaim: The collective embrace of fiscal austerity has gone beyond...
View ArticleThe United States as it looks to a German writer
Writing for Der Spiegel, Jakob Augstein paints a dismal but accurate picture of the United States today: The word “West” used to have a meaning. It described common goals and values, the dignity of...
View ArticleA conservative addresses the mess we’re in
Paul Craig Roberts, long a conservative, wrote: Economic policy in the United States and Europe has failed, and people are suffering. Economic policy failed for three reasons: (1) policymakers focused...
View ArticleGeorge McGovern died today (1992-2012)
He was 90 at the time of his death It cannot be said that McGovern’s star-crossed 1972 Presidential campaign signaled the death of American liberalism (America’s version of social democracy). That...
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