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Are You One Of The Chosen?

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BY SHARON MARTIN Are the homes in your school district mansions or something more modest? Do lawns sweep to wide avenues or do houses crouch...

Time For A Real Mutiny

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are hauled from the field of battle, guess what? It was all so predictable. The safest thing to […]

Travel Etiquette

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The first time I ever got on an airplane – to fly from Boston to New York, around 1970 – I got all dressed up. Flying was a big deal. The airport was, I thought, one of the most glamorous places I’d ever been. There were all kinds of problems on that […]

The Mongoose Is Gone

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BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The Democratic Party of Oklahoma, in particular and nationally in general, has failed miserably, not only as a political party but...

EPA To California: Go For It!

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BY FROMA HARROP Has the recent Republican sweep of the House doomed President Obama’s clean-energy agenda? Possibly. Has it doomed America’s? Hardly. It’s simply moved the center for enlightened environmental policy 2,840 miles to the west – to California, where it’s been before. That’s why the thumping Californians gave to Proposition 23 is so globally […]