I think considerable care needs to be taken in terms of what is said, so that the rhetoric doesn’t threaten what policy can’t deliver. —
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Andy Hill’s proposed tax breaks would cost big in the long run The Washington Budget & Policy Center looks at the eighteen new tax breaks
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Where have all the lobbyists gone? Into the shadows, that’s where The Nation’s Lee Fang: “On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying
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Alaska wolf killings upset National Park Service The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s dumb decision to slaughter an eleven-member wolf pack in the eastern
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We don’t need invaders in our streets… We haven’t invited them. There is no violence here. By deploying Russian soldiers in the Crimea, they sow
LaunchTo understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history
To understand Crimea, take a look back at its complicated history Several days ago, before it became apparent to the world that Russia had designs
LaunchUkraine’s prime minister says his country is “on the brink of disaster”
If President Putin wants to be the president who starts the war between two friendly and neighboring countries, he has [almost] reached this target… We
LaunchAnalysis: Ukraine finds its forces are ill-equipped to take Crimea back from Russia
Analysis: Ukraine finds its forces are ill-equipped to take Crimea back from Russia While Ukraine has a reasonably large army for a country its size,
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Pubic television’s Bill Moyers talks with Jacob Kornbluth, director of Inequality for All, about the widening disparity between the super wealthy and everyone else.
LaunchRussia to pay for seizing Crimea? Not necessarily
Russia is an even tougher country to pressure, too powerful even in the post-Soviet age to rattle with stern lectures or shows of military force,
LaunchNewspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry
Newspapers across America fail to identify wind power critic as hired gun for oil industry Media Matters takes note of all of the newspapers that
LaunchThe impact of testing and natural inequality on our classrooms
What many people do not know is that the use of standardized tests has its origins in the Eugenics movement, where basic tenets assert that
LaunchMajor General Paul D. Eaton: Dick Cheney has no right to criticize Obama’s defense policy
Sirius XM Progress: Major General Paul D. Eaton, who served more than 30 years in the United States Army in combat and post-combat assignments in
LaunchEffort underway in California to ban wasteful plastic bags
It has become increasingly clear to the public the environmental damage that single-use plastic bags have reaped… This is the beginning of the phase-out of
LaunchMonsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation
Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields four times normal litigation The Onion is on a roll this week. The satirical publication’s latest home
LaunchSheriff John Urquhart praises staff, outlines his high expectations in video message
Watch King County Sheriff John Urquhart’s February 2014 video message to his deputies and staff. Urquhart was elected as sheriff by the citizens of King
LaunchThe Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization
The Onion: American Airlines to phase out complimentary cabin pressurization The Onion brilliantly satirizes the U.S. airline industry’s less-for-more trend, mocking the endless cost-cutting moves
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Stock rallies as BlackBerry strikes back Shares in BlackBerry Limited rose again on Tuesday as the Canadian smartphone maker and device management provider unveiled new
LaunchArizona business groups overwhelmingly opposed to SB 1062
The state already is known as being discriminatory… This would muddy the water and give Arizona a more terrible reputation. — Howard Fleischmann, majority owner
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