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Playing Roulette With The Economy

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BY SHARON MARTIN In a democracy, there is no place for politicians unwilling to compromise. And when that lack of compromise threatens our financial markets...

How Do We Live With Ourselves?

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BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Morning coffee at CHOCS is highlighted by the “roundtable,” a gathering point for philosophers, lawyers, artists, retirees, mechanics or anyone with...

Why Won’t We Help Our Own?

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BY NORM ROURKE Tears filled his eyes as a teenage boy told how he worked part time jobs to buy a laptop to use in...

Four Trillion For War – And Rising

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BY JOE CONASON Anyone paying attention to the costs of U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan must have known that the president badly underestimated those numbers on June 22, when he told the nation that we have spent “a trillion dollars” waging war over the past decade. For well over two years, we have […]