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Okies, Beware

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BY ARNOLD HAMILTON When will Okies catch a clue? The Legislature's so-called tort reform efforts - conceived by silk-stocking corporatists and executed by their wholly-owned subsidiary,...

My Blue Dog Blues

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BY KAREN WEBB "The Second Amendment Task Force is adamantly opposed to reinstating the ban on the sale of assault weapons as it clearly would...

Don’t Surrender To Recession Stress

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BY FROMA HARROP Do recessions make people sicker? Some studies say yes, some say no. The better question might be, “How is this recession affecting health?” Not in a good way, comes the answer. This recession – depression? – seems different. This recession is messing with our heads. When the economic arrows first turned downward, […]

Limbaugh’s Lemmings

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Does anybody recall the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog? More specifically: Has anyone in the Republican Party congressional leadership...

The Real World Of Gay Marriage

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH In an ideal world, gay marriage would be won at the ballot box. Voters would recognize that they have absolutely nothing to lose by allowing their fellow citizens the same rights to marry that heterosexual men and women now enjoy. Even many prominent conservatives [say, Sarah Palin] have come to recognize that […]