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Tea Party Enigma

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Regardless of the loud rhetoric and the signs carried, the teabagger crowd remains something of an enigma. The rhetoric and the...

Pardon Me

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BY KAREN WEBB I was taught that God could do anything and that I was to accept, on faith, that he created the world in...

Oklahoma’s Folly: Challenging Health Reform

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BY SHARON MARTIN I’m not often prone to violence, but recently I had to resist the urge to kick someone in the shin. This person...

Wall Street Profits, Subsidies And Lobbyists

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Wall Street bankers are strutting around like little banty roosters these days, crowing about the phenomenal profits their banks are raking in. Citigroup has just announced that its profits for just the first three months of this year totaled an incredible $4.4 billion, Goldman Sachs’ haul was $3.5 billion, JPMorgan Chase grabbed […]

Smaller Government, Anyone?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Maybe not this week. With the oil spilling in the Gulf, it’s hard to find too many people calling for less government and more reliance on the private sector. Drill, Baby, Drill? Maybe not so fast. BP, to its credit, is taking responsibility for the spill, promising to do everything it can […]