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Views The Other Plot to Wreck America THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we've all become counterterrorists. But in the 16 months since that other calamity in downtown... Read more |
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Views One More Term Senator Dorgan, Please? The retiring of veteran Democratic Senators, Christopher Dodd, age 65, of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan, age 67, of North Dakota, have some short and long term consequences for the Democratic Party and its members. Senator Dodd's announcement that he was finished did not surprise me. He was going... Read more |
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Views McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t Maybe I got it wrong. During the presidential campaign I wrote columns blasting Sen. John McCain for siding with the big bankers on deregulation, citing his choosing ex-Sen. Phil Gramm, currently a vice chairman of the Swiss-owned banking giant UBS, as his presidential campaign chair. Barack Obama... Read more |
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Views Watch Out for GOP Populism It's easy to underestimate conservatism's chances in these dark days. Over the last year, the Republican Party has appeared to be either a gang of obstructionists or a confused relic of some prehistoric past; its thinkers seemed to do little more than repeat catch-phrases you've heard dozens of... Read more |
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News Obama's Big Sellout: The President has Packed His Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway Read more |
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Views (A Little Bit of) Wall Street Reform Four hundred forty-two days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, the U.S. House of Representatives has finally passed financial reform legislation. The long delay between the onset of the financial crisis -- a direct consequence of a quarter century of deregulation -- and the passage of Wall... Read more |
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Views Dear Barack, Spare Me Your E-Mails Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those “we the people” e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by rewarding the power elite that created our problems... Read more |
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Views Liberals Are Useless Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, universal... Read more |
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Views Worse Than Enron? Wall Street’s big banks are playing dangerous new accounting games—and this time taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of billions. Nomi Prins uncovers a scandal in the making. Read more |
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Views WTO Protesters Were Right I didn't live in Seattle a decade ago. From across the continent, my first reaction to the violence at the WTO Ministerial Conference was: Why would anyone smash up the downtown of my favorite American city? Most of the nation likely reacted with similar distaste, or worse, confirmation that here... Read more |