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Cursed

Arnold Hamilton - January 22, 2009 0

BY FROSTY TROY More than 600,000 Oklahomans who are without health insurance are twice cursed - no insurance and more likely to die because of...

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What Bush Deserved

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2009 1

BY KAREN WEBB MSNBC's Rachel Maddow seemed upset that some people booed when Bush appeared yesterday. Someone would have had to have gagged me, knocked...

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BY FROMA HARROP Mark Twain was thinking big in 1874 when he moved into his new 19-room mansion in Hartford, CT. The Missouri-born writer was not one to economize. Following the success of Tom Sawyer in 1881, he hired none other than Louis Comfort Tiffany to “do” the interior. It seems fitting that Twain wrote […]

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What Bipartisan Means Now

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2009 0

BY JOE CONASON On the eve of Barack Obama’s ascension to power, at candlelit dinners across Washington sponsored by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, the designated theme was bipartisanship. From the speeches delivered to the choice of honorees, which included Sen. John McCain, the former secretary of state Colin Powell, and the incoming vice president, Joe […]

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Already Missing The ‘Bushisms’

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2009 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER “So long,” sang Woody Guthrie, “it’s been good to know you.” I’m humming that tune as George W., rides off into the sunset – just an old cowpoke headed back home to his Texas spread. No, he’s not headed to that hokey ranchette in Crawford that Karl Rove insisted he buy in […]