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America’s Class Divide

Arnold Hamilton - January 19, 2012 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER What planet does presidential wannabe Rick Santorum live on? When it comes to grasping the situation of America’s hard-hit workaday majority, this sweater-vested ultra-right-winger is further out than Pluto. In a recent debate, Santorum assailed a tax plan proposed by front-runner Mitt Romney. It wasn’t the plan’s details that caused Rick to […]

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About The Dog

Arnold Hamilton - January 19, 2012 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH There is a famous story [it may be apocryphal, of course] about Richard Nixon and his dog. No, I don’t mean the Checkers speech, the one where Nixon saved his integrity by invoking his little dog, Checkers, and his wife’s cloth coat. This one came later, after he lost, during the famous […]

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Paperwork Answered Before Prayers

Arnold Hamilton - January 19, 2012 0

BY JAMES NIMMO Some of you may remember that Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin got in a huff when her administration requested disaster relief from the...

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Obama’s Biggest Threat Was Huntsman

Arnold Hamilton - January 17, 2012 0

BY FROMA HARROP Politically astute Republicans, including many social conservatives, see Mitt Romney as the strongest candidate to beat President Obama in November. The former Massachusetts governor may not be their kind of Republican, but any Republican would be better than Obama, in their opinion. The view that Romney would be Obama’s most formidable foe […]

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The Right Questions

Arnold Hamilton - January 17, 2012 0

BY SHARON MARTIN Ann Romney, in a television interview, recounted a moment of indecision on the campaign trail. She told an interviewer that she asked...