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Monthly Archives: September 2015
$750 Apples
Top Gear In The Clown Car
The Law Of Unintended Consequences
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The first rule of “reforming” the system for selecting a presidential nominee is that the best-laid plans lead to unintended consequences. So it was that the Democrats in the 1980s, stung by repeated losses, decided that the answer was to give Southern states more influence in the process by creating “Super Tuesday.” […]
Grassroots Democracy-Building In Iowa
BY JIM HIGHTOWER As Henrik Ibsen said: “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.” Democracy is never given to us, but has to be won through constant struggle against the elites who keep scheming to siphon ever more of society’s money and power into their […]
ObamaCare After Obama
BY FROMA HARROP The morning of the recent Republican debate, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the number of uninsured Americans in 2014 had dropped by about nine million from the year before. This was thanks, of course, to the Affordable Care Act. So it did cross one’s mind that at least one of the […]