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Deficits As Far As The States Can See

Arnold Hamilton - January 25, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP Like me, you may be wondering why 96,000 California state workers were given cell phones courtesy of the taxpayers. For, like me, you probably use a cell phone in the course of your work. And we know that if we asked our employers to pay for it, the answer would be N-O. […]

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Buffoonery

Arnold Hamilton - January 25, 2011 0

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Dining on politics from the reddest state is an unending, yet moveable, feast. When state politicos are not making fools of...

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Enough Showboating

Arnold Hamilton - January 24, 2011 0

BY SHARON MARTIN The same people who brought us a trillion-dollar war in the Middle East are now all about cutting the deficit. They say...

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Could A Serbian Heart Have Saved Dick Holbrooke?

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2011 0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Richard Holbrooke died at age 69 on Dec. 13, thus spared the annoyance of seeing one of his best-known political creations accused of supervising the killing of captives in order to slice out their organs for transplant purposes and financial gain. In the wake of Holbrooke’s sudden death, his memory was swiftly […]

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The Law School Game

Arnold Hamilton - January 21, 2011 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH One of the most widely circulated articles in The New York Times of late asks: “Is Law School a Losing Game?” For days, it was the most e-mailed story in the paper, and it is still among the Top 10. The gist is simple enough: It costs well over $40,000 a year […]