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Tilting At Oklahoma’s Wind Turbines

David Perryman - March 21, 2016 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN Just then they came in sight of 30 or 40 windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote...

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Voting For Con Artists

Sharon Martin - March 20, 2016 0

BY SHARON MARTIN Someone I love says that people don’t have time to find out how their legislators voted. “Who cares about a candidate’s voting record?”...

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How The West Was Shunned In Primary Politics

Froma Harrop - March 18, 2016 0

BY FROMA HARROP There’s a not-insignificant part of the United States known as the West Coast. It includes such prominent states as California, Oregon and Washington. These states have yet to hold a single presidential primary or caucus. But at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, this population center of 50 million-plus souls was […]

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Who Are The Pickpockets Prowling Your City’s Airport?

Jim Hightower - March 18, 2016 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER If you take the word f-r-e-e and rip the “r” out of it, what do you get? Two things, actually: One, instead of “free” you get “fee” – and then you get mad. This is happening to millions of airline passengers who’re discovering that the advertised price of a ticket is not […]

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Uncontrollable: Pentagon, Corporate Contractors Too Big To Audit

Ralph Nader - March 18, 2016 0

BY RALPH NADER The Reuters report put this colossal dereliction simply: “A law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies –...