To Comfort The Afflicted
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    Those Budget-Busting, Job-Killing GOP Governors

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JOE CONASON Even as Republicans boast of their chances to take over the United States Senate come November, their party’s governors across the country are facing dimmer prospects. From Georgia to Alaska, right-wing ideological rule imposed by GOP chief executives has left voters disappointed, disillusioned and angry. The problem isn’t that these governors failed […]

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    Massey Energy’s Manmade Hellhole

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER In March of last year, Massey Energy Corp.’s official record book for recording unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia said flatly: “none observed.” It turns out that this was a flat-out lie. Just one month later, Upper Big Branch exploded, killing 29 miners and devastating their […]

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    When A City Goes Bankrupt

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    BY FROMA HARROP CENTRAL FALLS, RI – The stock market plunged over 500 points last Thursday, but no one seemed very perturbed about it in this tiny factory town. Three days before, Central Falls had filed for a Chapter 9 bankruptcy. These working-class folk see bottoms fall out on a regular basis. For people used […]

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    The Year Of The Woman?

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’ve written this column so many times for so many years that it makes me nervous even to begin. More than 25 years after Geraldine Ferraro crashed the glass ceiling to be nominated for vice president, we should be long past “years of the woman.” When men win, we call it Tuesday. […]

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    The Liberal Lion, With Asterisks

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    BY FROMA HARROP They called him “The Liberal Lion.” Ted Kennedy deserved that title, though with some asterisks added. There’s no reconciling Kennedy worshippers with the Kennedy haters. But those who can deal with shades of gray will pay tribute to the legendary Massachusetts senator who championed landmark legislation through bipartisan cooperation – but whose […]

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