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Lying for Dollars

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and stalwart champion of education for all Americans, made clear the need for a...

Surviving the Glimmer Man

Once upon a time in a land not far away there lived a mighty people. Together they worked, and everyone shared in the fruits of their labor. Life...

The GOP Prescription — Good Medicine or Economic Poison?

If your doctor gave you a prescription to improve your health, and it made you deathly ill, would you follow said doctor’s orders to take...

Terrorism and the Politics of Fear

September 11, 2001: Two airliners strike the World Trade Towers, and 2973 people die. The entire planet watches in horror . . . America weeps. It...

A Republican that Democrats can vote for?

On the eve of the Republican presidential debate, there was one GOP candidate who spent a good deal of time making the circuit on liberal political...

"Budget Deficit" is Republicanese for Economic Opportunity

What do you call people who use their power to line their own pockets by taking from people who can’t protect themselves? “Bullies?...

Republican DeMockracy and the Government Shutdown

Do you think there are many great athletes amongst those who don’t care for sports? How about capable accountants who don’t like...

Progress is not a Dirty Word

First there was the New Deal, and then there came the Ordeal; now we need the Re-Deal.For more than four decades after the Great Depression struck,...