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Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times

Walter M. Brasch — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:28:03 +0000

Walter Brasch: “As long as the product is cheaper, our people will gladly go to large non-union stores and buy whatever it is that we tell them to buy.” *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its title. Thank you.

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris Agrees to Monumental Settlement

Sharon Kyle — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:21:17 +0000

Sharon Kyle: Kamala Harris emphasized the need to continue to chip away at the forces behind this crisis, stating that she and her team have instituted a Mortgage Fraud Strike Force which has been created to protect innocent homeowners and bring to justice those who defraud them. *This is an...

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2012: Of Mayans and Mr. Scrooge

Robert Illes — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:15:49 +0000

Robert Illes: But if the absolution of Ebenezer Scrooge and the election of 2010 and the Arab spring and the Wisconsin summer and Herman Cain fall (pun intended) have taught as anything, it's that we are in the middle of bizarro world. *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please...

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Friday Feedback: Yes, AA Does Work

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:37 +0000

Friday Feedback: is week, Robert Illes, who also publishes articles with us, addresses Kevin Gray's "Does AA Really Work? *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its title. Thank you.

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“Newtron” Aims to Inflame Mexican American Catholic Voters!

Steve Ybarra — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:00:47 +0000

Steve Ybarra: Newtron signals the beginning of this war by asking people to go and talk to the “Bishops” and hear for themselves that the Catholic Church is being destroyed by these edicts. Wait, ask the BISHOPS!?! *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its title. Thank...

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Turning the Tide: An Historian’s View of School Reform

Mark Naison — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:25:03 +0000

Mark Naison: Over time, people of courage and integrity will turn the tide and begin to restore sanity to educational discourse and develop a powerful alliance of teachers, parents and students, supported first by the Occupy movement, and later by unions, religious organizations and progressive...

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Foreclosures 101 – Part 1

Kwazi Nkrumah — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:12:33 +0000

Kwazi Nkrumah: For years the banks, real estate agents and investors in real estate securities on Wall Street were making money hand-over-fist. They did all this while pretending to break from their previous established history of gross discrimination and red-lining against the disproportionately...

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Calling Wealthy Democrats

Brent Budowsky — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:22 +0000

Brent Budowsky: Will men and women of the center and left fight as hard as those on the right for their vision of America, or will they surrender from the sidelines? If they surrender, I tremble for the future of the nation. *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its...

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Unemployment: Shadows and Reality

Kathleen Peine — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:00:40 +0000

Kathleen Peine: The unemployment report came out recently, and Punxatawny Phil saw a service sector job — that means six more years of growth. Or something like that. It’s all very complicated. *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its title. Thank you.

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Homeless in Los Angeles

Jerry Drucker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:01:31 +0000

Jerry Drucker: In all of Los Angeles County, except for Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach, which conduct their own census counts, the 2011 census count of the homeless was 51,340, 3% less than 2009 at 52,931. *This is an excerpt. To read the complete article, please click its title. Thank...

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