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I never cease to be amazed by the boundless hypocrisy of the U.S. political class and the related amnesia of U.S. political…
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We're helping [Scott Walker], as we should. We've gotten pretty good at this over the years. We've spent a lot of…
Relieved as he must be at his recent acquittal and mistrial on federal campaign finance charges, John Edwards surely knows that his…
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Many Americans seem to believe that the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the deployment of the U.S. military in domestic law enforcement,…
As a member of the so-called hard left with little taste for self-promotion and a fairly strong understanding of how the dominant…
Eager to find and amplify signs of mass radical potential in a period when the capitalist rich are ever more clearly destroying…
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