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Strangling Democracy

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Koch boys, Charles and David, live in their own little world. It’s a special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth. Thus, the two brothers have always felt very special, and they also expect those of us in the down-to-Earth […]

Asking The Right Questions

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BY SHARON MARTIN Here’s the good news: there will be a change of leadership at the State Department of Education. And the bad news: the...

Constant War

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BY VERN TURNER We, as a fractured and divided nation in 1860, fought a most un-civil Civil War. The cost to the nation as a...

A Message For Patriots Of All Persuasions

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BY JOE CONASON When the flags fly proudly on the Fourth of July, I remember what my late father taught me about love of country. Much as he despised the scoundrels and pretenders he liked to call “jelly-bellied flag flappers,” after a line in a favorite Rudyard Kipling story, he was deeply patriotic. It is […]

If Not, Why Not?

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BY DAVID PERRYMAN Roughly once every 2½ minutes, around the clock, 24 four hours per day, a man or woman who served in World War...