Articles Tagged “Franklin D. Roosevelt”
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Nincompoopery At Work: Cantor’s Con Would Steal Workers’ Overtime Pay
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Rediscovering The Art Of Governance
BY VERN TURNER Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, recently published an essay wherein he suggests several ways for the Republican Party to change and become a party of governance instead of one trying to create a beauty contest every year with no beauties. He begins his essay with the usual canards we’ve come [...]
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The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated At Last?
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Squabbling Over Crumbs
BY SHARON MARTIN Sen. Tom Coburn’s aide explained in an e-mail to me why the senator voted to cut funding for National Writing Project. He says he doesn’t want our children and grandchildren to be saddled with our debt. I agree with him that leaving behind debt is not fair to future generations. I don’t [...]
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Dreaming Real Reform
BY SHARON MARTIN In the United States, we talk democracy, but we practice minority rule. Sure, we all can vote, at least for the time being, but it is the few with enough money to buy politicians who determine policy. In the past two decades we have seen the redistribution of wealth from the middle [...]
