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Never Too Late To Start Up

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BY FROMA HARROP Could an aging population be good for economic growth? I mean, isn’t it an accepted fact that our economy will suffer as more Americans pass age 65 and start sitting around all day, soaking up government benefits? That’s the spiel, but many economists are not buying it. Older workers can fill in the […]

More Good News For The Independent Judiciary

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH My friend Greg Jarrett from Fox News was the first to point out the irony. A few days earlier, I had made the point that it was a George W. Bush appointee on the federal bench who struck down the National Security Agency surveillance program that the Bush Administration [as well as […]

The Koch Archipelago

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BY VERN TURNER There are parallels to the famous Gulag Archipelago written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in today’s right wing efforts to control the lives of...

Dear ‘W’

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BY RALPH NADER George W. Bush George W. Bush Presidential Center PO Box 560887 Dallas, Texas, 57356 Dear Mr. Bush: A few days ago I received a personalized letter from...

Unicorn Flatulence: A Really Big Bang

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BY KENNY BELFORD The Pew Research Center has just released a new poll. While the poll itself wasn't a political poll, there certainly are political...