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The Mortgage Thieves Return

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 7, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP First come the shady operators, then comes the collapse, then comes the bailout, then come the shady operators. That, too often, is the sad history of financial meltdowns and their cleanups. The closing days of the Bush Administration offer the familiar spectacle of bad actors descending on a government program fat with new money and starved of oversight. The object of plunder this time is a Federal Housing Administration program recently empowered […]

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Outsourcing America

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 3, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP Barack Obama’s pick for commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, vows to create millions of technology jobs that can’t be outsourced. Sounds good, particularly in this melting economy. On the other hand, Richardson supports expanding the H-1B visa program, which had greased the departure of good-paying tech jobs to lower-wage countries. The program lets U.S. companies employ up to 65,000 temporary foreign software designers, engineers and other skilled professionals a year. […]

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The Real Bush Years

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 2, 2009 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER As the classic New Year’s song asks, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?” Not if our auld acquaintance is the Bush regime. Yes, our country will soon be getting a new beginning, and maybe, just maybe, we can put our country back on the right path. As we head that way, however, we ought not totally put out of mind the dark path we’ve been down the past eight, lest we allow future […]

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New Year’s Reflections

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 1, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH When I was younger, New Year’s was a time fraught with frantic uncertainty revolving around the seemingly critical questions of whether I would have a date and/or something to do. Having nothing to do on New Year’s Eve and/or no one to do it with seemed a fate worse than death, or close. For some years, the problems were solved by being married and being invited to a fancy and fashionable party […]

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What Israel Still Must Do

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - December 31, 2008 0

BY FROMA HARROP Everyone knows what must be done if there is to be a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel’s forceful response to rocket attacks from Gaza does not change that. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently spelled out what his country must do. This week, he is sending Israel’s forces into what he called “long, painful and difficult” fighting in Gaza. This necessary action does not alter the truths he spoke in […]

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