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Democrats Must Fix Health Care Alone

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BY FROMA HARROP Early on as New York mayor, Ed Koch went to battle against entrenched interests that were bankrupting the city. The yelling and screaming was such that reporters asked him whether he was interested in having a second term. Koch responded that he didn’t care about a second term, which was why he […]

Un-American Activities

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD The last contribution of the Militant Moderate was entitled “Unruly Mobs Chill Democracy.” The truth of that one has been borne...

The Right-Wing Express: Loop-The-Loop

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER If you get a thrill from taking a white-knuckle ride on a loop-the-loop, you don’t have to wait for the state fair – just hop onto the right-wing express, which is plunging into ludicrous levels of loopiness in an effort to kill Barack Obama’s health care reform plan. You’ll shriek with astonishment […]

The Prince

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I discovered Bob Novak when I was in college. My political science teacher assigned us Rowland Evans and Robert Novak’s classic tomes Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power [1966] and Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power [1971]. It was like giving the Bible on baseball to a kid […]

‘It’s About Damn Time’

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BY KENNY BELFORD In the Aug. 19 New York Times they published a story indicating Democratic leaders are preparing to go it alone on health...