10 hours ago by agentleman

Money and Morals By PAUL KRUGMAN Lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap. And the myth of a classless society has been exposed: Among rich countries, ...

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20 hours ago by agentleman

5 Right-Wing Governors Gutting Schools to Fund Prisons, Tax Breaks for the Rich…And a Bible Theme Park When state after state slashes education dollars, we see what matters to them–and where they spend while cutting schools tells us even more. It’s budget time again, and with the economy still in ro ...

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20 hours ago by Aimee Kligman

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1 day ago by Bob Pitt

A Muslim scholar who has courted controversy in Islamic circles for his progressive views on women has stepped into the equally fiery territory of contemporary architecture. Taj Hargey is an imam and the director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford who is best known for allowing men and women ...

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2 days ago by rantcaster

There is no ignorance more intractable than faith-based ignorance. A pox on all these religious peacocks who shout their prayers for all to hear, and expect all Americans to follow them down the road to a dark, dark future. In the case of Santorum , Gingrich, Romney et al, I for one wish we could ma ...

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3 days ago by C L O C K W O R K M A N

Conservatives have it right. No-one cares about family anymore. The fabric of the American family has crumbled and we only have ourselves to blame. Shame on us. Or not. Family is an extension of pack mentality that helped our species survive. Culture, as we know it, evolved from explaining how to ma ...

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3 days ago by David Mixner

Forget Bruce Springsteen's " Born in the USA" blaring from the speakers at Republican victory night parties! From now on, it will be old hymn " Onward Christian Soldiers..." as the official Republican anthem. Rick Santorum's victory last night can't be simply labeled by the media as an embarrassing ...

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3 days ago by Bob Pitt

The French prime minister and his cabinet have stormed out of parliament after an opposition MP accused the rightwing interior minister of flirting with Nazi ideology. The Socialist Serge Letchimy, from Martinique, questioned the interior minister and close Sarkozy ally, Claude Guéant, over his cont ...

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4 days ago by agentleman

The Evil Brilliance of Komen’s Karen Handel Ilyse Hogue Karen Handel in a Tuesday, August 10, 2010 file photo. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) This morning, Karen Handel resigned as the vice president of public policy of the Susan G. Komen foundation. Handel had spent the last week at the epicenter o ...

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4 days ago by agentleman

Romney Isn’t Concerned By PAUL KRUGMAN If you’re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn’t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Mr. Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.” Faced with criticism, the ...

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