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Where They Play, Rich Conservatives Like Zoning

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BY FROMA HARROP The weekend’s memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. On Sunday, he moseyed across the Long Island Sound to the beachy pleasure dome of billionaire conservative David Koch, in Southampton, NY – for a $75,000-a-couple […]

Right-Sizing Government

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BY SHARON MARTIN Nobody wants a government any bigger than it needs to be. It isn’t the size of government on which the two sides...

‘No War On Iran’

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John Scripsick addresses July 10 news conference at Oklahoma Capitol. Photo: Rena Guay, New Media Active   BY ARNOLD HAMILTON Despite a decade of misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

Epitaph To A Dead Movement

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It was very hard not to be swept away by the Occupy movement, which established itself in New York’s Zuccotti Park last September and soon spread to Oakland, Chicago, London and Madrid. And indeed most people didn’t resist its allure. Leninists threw aside their Marxist primers on party organization and drained the […]

We Will Decide

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BY DON NELSON Don’t you just love how the Republican spin tries to marginalize improvement? The jobless rate did not change – but jobs were added....