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Arnold Hamilton - May 15, 2012 1

BY NORM ROURKE An open letter to Sen. Roger Ballenger, D-Okmulgee, and Rep. Steve Kouplen, D-Beggs: I won't insult your intelligence with a litany of the...

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Depending on which poll you believe, Obama is either up by 3, 7 or 9 points, or down by 1, 3 or 5. Or none of the above. Figuring out who’s going to be on first in November [which is the only time that counts] is not something you can do just […]

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Education Should Have Second And Third Acts

Arnold Hamilton - May 10, 2012 0

BY FROMA HARROP On the HBO series Girls, Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary. The 24-year-old has been working as an unpaid intern for over a year, and her parents will no longer support her. When the boss responds in the negative – “I am really going to miss your […]

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Mitt, Revealed

Arnold Hamilton - May 10, 2012 0

BY JOE CONASON Just as aspiring judges ought to possess the quality known as “judicial temperament,” a would-be president should have certain obvious attributes of mind and character. Two incidents tested Mitt Romney this week – and both times, his ambition overwhelmed his judgment. On Thursday morning, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted […]

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The Greediness Of Brain Drain

Arnold Hamilton - May 10, 2012 0

BY RALPH NADER The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity...