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Friday, July 13, 2012

Not releasing past tax returns is an enormous PR blunder by Romney campaign.

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By Marc Jampole Mitt Romney continues to refuse to release his past tax returns, while insisting that there’s “nothing hidden in them.”...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Obama plan to let temporary Bush II tax cuts expire but keep cuts for others will help weak economy.

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By Marc Jampole We start with the fact that we have both a weak economy and a heavy debt burden.   It would be great to reduce the deb...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Gas Price Conspirators

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Pete Kotz writes in Seattle Weekly about the forces in Wall Street and Washington who work to keep up the price of oil and gasoline at the ...

16 museums dedicated to teaching creationism pockmark the American landscape.

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By Marc Jampole Secular humanist that I am, I couldn’t contain a squeaky chortle of glee when reading that the Creation Museum in a K...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

By rejecting state health insurance exchange, GOP governors increase the scope of federal government

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By Marc Jampole These past few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about my brother’s death at the age of 49.   When he fell from a ladder and...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Roberts did what he always does: support interests of big business, which likes the healthcare act

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By Marc Jampole I didn’t make a prediction in print on whether the Supreme Court would rule that the Affordable Care Act was constituti...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Court backs clean air and science in ruling that EPA can regulate against global warming

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By Marc Jampole Whatever the Supreme Court   announces later this week related to the Affordable Care Act, another court in the land has ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Values.com says that all of us can live our dreams, and uses as its example a fictional frog

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By Marc Jampole Four months ago I thought I dispensed with the Values.com website, a hodgepodge of feel-good slogans and stories, funded...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Art experts refuse to stand up to forgeries and mislabeled art for fear of being sued

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By Marc Jampole An article in today’s New York Times details a very disturbing trend: curators, scholars and other art expertsare ref...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Selections from the July 1-15, 2012 issue

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COVER/Joan Walsh p. 1 Walker wins 1 for the plutocrats  EDITORIAL p. 2 Battle against plutocracy LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4 RURAL...
Friday, June 15, 2012

OMG! sinks to new low in anti-intellectualism: celebs who never graduated from high school

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by Marc Jampole OMG!, Yahoo!’s online celebrity magazine, has commemorated the fact that third-rate actor Mark Wahlberg finally earned hi...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Opponents to minimum wage use illogical assumptions and imaginary anecdotes as their arguments

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By Marc Jampole I have rarely received as negative a reaction as when I lambasted Professor Thomas Sowell the other day for, among other ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Writer’s dream of retirement assumes that no one likes city living

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By Marc Jampole I was going to ignore the silly article by Tom Sightings titled “ Dreams of the Ideal Retirement Home ” in the latest U...