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21 Reasons Canadian Health Care System Is Better than ObamaCare

Arnold Hamilton - November 21, 2013 0

BY RALPH NADER Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into ObamaCare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer full Medicare for all is...

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Intellectual Impoverishment: Why Paul Ryan Is Rebranding That Old ‘Compassionate Conservatism’

Arnold Hamilton - November 21, 2013 0

BY JOE CONASON Nobody in Washington talks much about the poor in America these days, even though they are more and more with us in the economic aftermath of the Great Recession. Perhaps that is why the Washington Post welcomed Paul Ryan’s recent declaration that he wants to fight poverty “with kinder, gentler policies to […]

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Wild Turkey On The Rocks?

Arnold Hamilton - November 21, 2013 0

BY FROMA HARROP Much we believe about turkeys is not true. Myth No. 1: They were served at the “first Thanksgiving” feast in Plymouth, MA. There’s no evidence for that. The Plymouth Colony governor, an observer wrote, “sent foure men on fowling” for the dinner. Fowling is an Old English reference to waterfowl. So ducks […]

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McDonald’s: Low-Paid Workers, High-Flying Execs

Arnold Hamilton - November 21, 2013 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Sometimes it pays just to go away. You could ask Jim Skinner about that. He was CEO of the hamburger behemoth, McDonald’s, pulling down a hefty $8.8 million in pay. Last year, though, Skinner retired, and, rather than getting a gold watch, he was given a load of gold – so large […]

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Who Knows Best

Arnold Hamilton - November 21, 2013 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Martin Short had the best line at Saturday night’s Governors Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: “President Obama said if you like your Oscar, you can keep it.” Presumably, Angelina Jolie will. When a Hollywood crowd [full of Democrats] roars, you know that a complete screw-up by […]