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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Editorial: GOP Smash and Grab

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It grates on us every time Donnie Trump is described as a populist. He talked a populist line during the presidential campaign, with promise...

Selections from the February 1, 2018 issue

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COVER/Medea Benjamin  10 Good things about a TERRIBLE year EDITORIAL GOP smash and grab LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DON ROLLINS Virginia town...

Health Expenses Around the World

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Graphic by Kevin Kreneck / Click on art to magnify
Friday, January 12, 2018

Surprise, surprise, surprise! Another attempt at privatization of a government function fails. This time it’s collection of back taxes

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By Marc Jampole Once again, privatization of a basic government function has failed.  As the  New York Times  reports,  the Internal Rev...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

The danger of an Oprah presidency: Instead of being chief of state, POTUS becomes a celebrity figurehead

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By Marc Jampole No one can really answer the question, “Would you vote for Oprah for president?” out of the context of who the other cho...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

What connects deporting dreamers and refugees & the new war on pot? The need to fill the private prisons owned & operated by Trump/Session supporters

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By Marc Jampole The body count is getting higher: Add 200,000 Salvadorans to 780,000 dreamers and 45,000 Haitians. That’s well over a mi...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

Upside of downsizing the American dream: It may slow down use of fossil fuels and global warming

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By Marc Jampole In discussing climate change, the very broadest view we can take is the unfolding of evolution. Recent findings uncover ...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

News flash to Donald Trump: There is only one size to every nuclear button—the length and breadth of the globe

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By Marc Jampole Donald Trump is using twitter again to twit and goad Kim Jong Un, the autocratic leader of North Korea. This time, he’s w...
Monday, December 25, 2017

From Al Bundy to Trumpty-Dumpty: The spiritual part of the war on Christmas was lost in the days Trump was failing as a casino owner

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By Marc Jampo le I started feeling under the weather at around Noon the day before Christmas, so I spent much of the late afternoon an...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

New tax bill tries something that’s already failed many times: lowering taxes on wealthy to spur economic growth. But it’s typical of GOP to propose programs that have proven not to work

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By Marc Jampole Much of science and engineering involves trial and error: You try something and it doesn’t work, or doesn’t work perfectl...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Final tax bill not as mean-spirited as earlier versions, but still gives virtually all benefits to rich folk, while screwing everyone else. And it will still lead to another great recession or worse

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By Mark Jampole In the days before Congress passed the so-called tax overhaul, better termed the “Reverse Robin Hood Plan,” some tele...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Editorial: High Ground is Slippery

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Coming up on Year Two of the Trump Misadministration was not the time for Democrats to make Al Franken walk the plank. Forcing Franken to ...