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A Call For Honest News

Sharon Martin - July 14, 2016 0

BY SHARON MARTIN If you believe a lie, you can probably find a website or news source that will back you up. If you want...

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH “I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in The New York Times this week. Trump responded in his usual unpresidential way, tweeting: “Justice Ginsburg has embarrassed all by making very […]

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How To Make A Political Platform Progressive

Jim Hightower - July 14, 2016 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER An old cowboy aphorism offers this advice: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse.” I relived this truism last weekend in Orlando, FL, where I spent two hot, muggy days wrangling over policy issues as one of the members of the Democratic Party’s national platform committee. Depending on the moment and […]

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Paper Chase And The American Dream

David Perryman - July 13, 2016 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN The 1973 movie Paper Chase brought to life much of the academic and emotional struggle of pursuing a law degree. For whatever...

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Attack On Dallas Police Was Terrorism

Froma Harrop - July 12, 2016 0

BY FROMA HARROP The gunning down of five cops in Dallas was terrorism, pure and simple. The lunatic who did it framed his rampage as retaliation for police shootings of African-Americans. But these were not two sides of the same coin. They were different coins altogether. The early evidence suggests that the fatal confrontations in […]