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They Don’t Care

Arnold Hamilton - February 25, 2009 0

BY NORM ROURKE Watching Feed The Children trucks unloading boxes of food in Wilmington, OH, while people waited in line, broke my heart and made...

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Excuse me for being impolitic, but why the —- is America “surging” so unquestioningly into Afghanistan? Not for nothing is that country called “the burial ground of empires,” “a guerilla’s paradise” and “the theme park of problems.” Yet, President Obama insists that America must act now to “stabilize” Afghanistan and its dizzyingly […]

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The Price Of Paying By The Rules

Arnold Hamilton - February 24, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The president deserves the high marks he is getting from the public for his first month in office. Most presidents get to spend their first month putting up the draperies. This one had to spend his picking up the pieces of a collapsing economy. When the Republicans decided to just say no, […]

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Absence, Noted

Arnold Hamilton - February 24, 2009 0

BY ARNOLD HAMILTON You could almost feel a collective hold-your-breath-moment developing in the Oklahoma House today. A resolution marking NAACP Day - and commemorating the 100th...

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Let Bankruptcy Courts Change Mortgages

Arnold Hamilton - February 24, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP Let bankruptcy courts modify the terms of home mortgages, says President Obama and legislation now before Congress. Banks don’t like the idea, but it’s a good one, possibly even for them. We are talking about Chapter 13 bankruptcies, in which troubled borrowers reorganize their debt, not walk away from it [that’s a […]