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GOP establishment scorns purity test - Yahoo! NewsEstablishment Republicans are recoiling at a draft proposal before the Republican National Committee that would bar party financial support for candidates who fail to meet eight of 10 issue tests. The resolution, the latest skirmish in the GOP’s ongoing internal ideological battle, would ...
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U.S. Military Prepares To Move Out Of Iraq : NPRThe U.S. military is preparing for its withdrawal from Iraq, and some equipment is already on the move. The delay in Iraq's national elections, which had been scheduled for January until a political dispute over the election law erupted last month, has posed some uncertainty over just when U.S. ...
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Movement under way in California to ban divorce - Yahoo! NewsTil death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant ...
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Supreme Court rejects case of valedictorian who mentioned Jesus - Yahoo! NewsA high school valedictorian in Colorado has lost her bid for the US Supreme Court to decide whether school officials violated her free-speech rights when they withheld her diploma until she agreed to apologize to the student body for mentioning Jesus in her graduation speech. At issue in her ...
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A Lesson From AIG: How to Fix the Fed - Yahoo! NewsOf all the villains responsible for the Great Economic Wipeout, the Federal Reserve is pretty far down the list. It's certainly behind members of Congress who deregulated the banks in 1999, allowing once staid institutions to gamble recklessly. Then there are notorious CEOs like Martin Sullivan ...
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In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap - NYTimes.comIn Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago on his résumé. But after graduating ...
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The Safety Net - Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades - Series - NYTimes.comFood Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is ...
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Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?By Glenn Greenwald Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues." Similarly, Andrew ...
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How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending! - Salon.comSo you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again
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Economic Hitman John Perkins: US predatory capitalism creates poverty, terrorism, and pollutionNY Times Bestselling author of Economic Hitman, John Perkins, explains in excerpts from his new book, Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them, that the US lives under a corporatocracy, with US policy captured to serve ...
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