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Walker Cuts Higher-Ed Budget, Funds Corporate Welfare

Jim Hightower - September 17, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Meet Scott Walker, corporate whore and lousy gambler [with taxpayer money, of course]. The Wisconsin governor says he should be America’s next president because he’s a proven budget whacker who, by golly, has dressed down teachers, slashed funding for higher education, busted unions and gone after welfare recipients. He’s the Koch brothers’ […]

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The Doctor Is In

Susan Estrich - September 16, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Given that it is September, when summer love fades and fall sets in, you might expect to see someone drawing even with Donald Trump. But you wouldn’t expect that person to be one of the other least-likely-to-succeed candidates in the race: retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Between a retired doctor and a debt-ridden […]

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It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing

Arnold Hamilton - September 16, 2015 0

Editor’s Note: Richard Glossip is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 3 p.m. today. Gov. Mary Fallin said yesterday she would not grant...

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Breaking The Camel’s Back

Arnold Hamilton - September 15, 2015 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN When I hear the oriental proverb about the straw that broke the camel’s back, I have a tendency to focus on the...

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Bernie’s Problem With Blacks – And Others

Arnold Hamilton - September 15, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP So Barack Obama is “a Rockefeller Republican in blackface.” He’s “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs” and “a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.” Those are the words of Cornel West, an African-American academic whom Bernie Sanders invites to campaign beside him. And Sanders’ fans wonder why Bernie isn’t catching on with […]