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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Backers of anti-worker legislation use front organization to shill for another front organization run by PR firm

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By Marc Jampole A recent full-page ad in many of the national daily newspapers pictures the newly deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Our vice president is okay, but Obama should ask Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

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By Marc Jampole I want to join the small band of people who are advocating that Vice President Joe Biden graciously retire so that Hillary C...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Santorum, Gingrich, their defenders want us to believe that only African-Americans take government benefits

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By Marc Jampole Both Santorum and Gingrich played the race card last week, which should serve as a not-so-gentle reminder that much of the a...
Friday, January 6, 2012

American Petroleum Institute wants us to be “energy voters,” which means supporting the Keystone XL pipeline.

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By Marc Jampole The friendly looking and sharply dressed middle-aged African-American man looks out at us from a full-page ad with a confide...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

No one should get a free pass for trying to take a gun on an airplane.

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By Marc Jampole It sure seems as if there has been a lot of news lately about people trying to carry firearms onto airplanes. As it turns ou...

This is my worry too: Little Girl Red, Cover Your Head

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Santorum symbolizes a political party that says it wants to help families but supports anti-family policies

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By Marc Jampole Yesterday was a glorious, almost celestial day for Rick Santorum. He lost last night’s Iowa caucus to Mitt Romney by a mere ...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

The old dilemma

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From the Heartland, Margot McMillen writes: As a writer, you have to follow rules. Sentences have nouns and verbs and end with a dot. Adject...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Groping for language

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From the Heartland, Margot McMillen writes: With the year about to close, everyone is evaluating. Plenty went wrong, but what went right? W...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

NY Times tells us the 75 things from 2011 that it wants us to talk about and remember

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By Marc Jampole The New York Times “Thursday Styles” section today published its list of the 75 things that reporters talked about in 201...

Emperor of the Drones

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Why do media wait till a Republican candidate is on a roll to bring out the dirt?

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By Marc Jampole Almost overnight Ron Paul began to rise in the Iowa polls. And it seems as if it were only a day later that we discovered th...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Haitian spring

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From the Heartland, Margot McMillen writes: Reports of a re-birth in Haitian agriculture are premature, but the midwives are ready. ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Occupied Wall Street 30 BCE (Before Common Era)

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Old Xmas movie shows which ideological imperatives have changed and which remain the same

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By Marc Jampole Last night I flipped on Turner Classic Movies for a half hour after returning from participating in a revered Christmas E...

What has Obama done well?

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Listen to   internet radio   with   Talking Progressive on Blog Talk Radio What Has Obama Done Well 12/25...

Eating local--Haiti and Missouri

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From the Heartland, Margot McMillen writes: Finally. Some good news from Haiti. There’s an effort to re-build their local food system, to mo...

Have you seen the letter to investigate Clarence Thomas?

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You can join in the demand at People for the American Way .  A group of 20 House Democrats led by Rep. Louise Slaughter are now pushing for ...

The Nation's Honor Roll recognizes courageous progressives for the year 2011.

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John Nichols ,  The Nation John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999.  " What a difference a year...