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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Views From The Heartland
Bank Of America: Always Thinking Of You
BY JIM HIGHTOWER One way you can tell that a bank is in trouble is that it suddenly starts buying full-page ads in newspapers across the country that tell us what great shape it’s in and what a fine job it’s doing for our communities. Such a PR push is now being made by Bank […]
What Newt Knows [And Cain Doesn’t]
BY SUSAN ESTRICH If you take a gander at Newt Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, in the personal section, you’ll see quite a pile of baggage. Most of us have some. He has more than most: three marriages, messy divorces, affairs, etc. But here’s the difference between Gingrich, the experienced politician, and the hopelessly inexperienced Herman Cain. […]
The Angst In Giving Thanks
BY FROMA HARROP Americans typically eat over 1,000 meals a year. But for many, Thanksgiving dinner seems to be the one that, like a magnet, gathers the iron shavings of every food anxiety. Why should that be? You’d think that this feast with family and friends would be accepted for what it is – an […]