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America’s 10 Cushiest Prisons
July 18th, 2009 |
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It’s looking like a lifetime sentence at one of the nation’s cushiest prisons for world-class fraudster Bernard Madoff. The record-setting scammer is now at the Federal Correctional Complex at Butner, N.C. It’s no Club Fed–the U.S. Bureau of …
Sen. Sherrod Brown: America Needs a National Manufacturing Policy. Now.
July 17th, 2009 |
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Not too long ago, the ticket to the middle class was straightforward. Work hard, play by the rules, and you’ll have something to show for…
Biden: “We’re Going to Go Bankrupt As a Nation”
July 17th, 2009 |
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Vice President Joe Biden told the AARP today:We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation. Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The…
Michael Strong: The Most Progressive Movement on the Planet
July 16th, 2009 |
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What if we could apply the power of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to the problem of poverty reduction?
Bill Chameides: The Nation’s Energy Expert Speaks Out on Climate … Not
July 15th, 2009 |
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Quiz: What soon-to-be-ex-governor of a very northern state could write an op-ed about climate legislation without once mentioning the word “climate”? That’s right; Sarah Palin…
Angela Glover Blackwell: Who’s Still Being Left out in the Stimulus?
July 14th, 2009 |
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The most vulnerable communities are not yet getting the stimulus help they need. Sadly, we predicted this: First, we need to invest [the federal stimulus]…
CIT Group: Washington Considers If Lender Is ‘Too Big Too Fail’
July 14th, 2009 |
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The CIT Group is one of the nation’s biggest lenders to small businesses. But a debate is swirling in Washington over whether it is large enough — or important enough — to save.
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Swedish Press Boycotting Britney Spears Over Photo Regulations
July 14th, 2009 |
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Britney Spears is being given the cold shoulder by the Swedish press as four of the nation’s largest newspapers plan to boycott coverage of the singer’s upcoming tour stop after she implemented strict photography conditions at her shows.
Britney has infuriated members of the media by stipulating that any photographs taken of her Circus show [...]
Alternative Medicine Supplements Hospitals’ Care For Sick Kids
July 13th, 2009 |
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Some of the nation’s top hospitals are embracing alternative medicine to supplement traditional healing. Are we onto something?
Danny Hauser made national headlines when he and his mom, Colleen, fled for Mexico to seek an alternative cure for…
Stephen Schlesinger: Obama’s Internationalism: Echoes of FDR, HST and JFK
July 11th, 2009 |
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Obama’s words represent a continuation of the historic tradition of internationalism in the Democratic Party that has helped build America into the most powerful land on earth.
Josh Ruxin: What Obama’s Trip to Ghana Really Means
July 11th, 2009 |
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As President Obama and his family head for Africa, the choice of Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African nation to play host to the first…