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Setting Schools Up For Failure?

Arnold Hamilton - July 7, 2011 1

BY CLAUDIA SWISHER An open letter to members of the state House and Senate education and budget committees and to State Superintendent Janet Barresi: I have...

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Massey Energy’s Manmade Hellhole

Arnold Hamilton - July 6, 2011 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER In March of last year, Massey Energy Corp.’s official record book for recording unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia said flatly: “none observed.” It turns out that this was a flat-out lie. Just one month later, Upper Big Branch exploded, killing 29 miners and devastating their […]

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Nuts And Sluts

Arnold Hamilton - July 6, 2011 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Actually, I called this one. Ask my son. Whore, she said, she being me. It was the only defense. Rich guy has sex with hotel maid. What can you say? True love. Not likely. Quote Bernard Shaw. What was her price? OK, so half the people think he’s been put through the […]

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The Debt Ceiling Is Questionable

Arnold Hamilton - July 6, 2011 0

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Only Republicans want the issue of whether this nation pays its legitimate debts and obligations to come down to a last...

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The People Want Higher Taxes

Arnold Hamilton - July 5, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP Poll after poll shows that the American people want higher taxes. That’s not the same as liking higher taxes. The people have simply concluded that higher taxes are preferable to the alternative — so vividly portrayed in the Republican plan to do away with government guarantees in Medicare. And Republicans don’t even […]