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OpEdNews - Article: In Newt-Speak, Losing is Winning: Trials Only Feed More Vainglory

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - How is it possible that a veteran hustler who can't distinguish winning from losing hasn't been taken to the funny farm? Well, maybe that fits the GOP campaign for president.

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OpEdNews - Article: The Real Rogue for 'Real America'?

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - Finally, after fits and mis-starts, the radical GOP outsider candidacy movement finds its hero -- none other than the greatest insider of the last 20 years. Just the right real rogue for 'real Americans." OMG Well, the idiot rightwing Tea Party, at least in the deep south, has found its dubious champion. Try, try, again, and you may finally succeed. Hated by the party bigwigs, Newt won't likely win but he will pulverize whoever does, especially Mitt the timid. Couldn't have happened to a nicer flip-flopper, gummed by a Newt flip-flopper.

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OpEdNews - Article: Loons, Goons, and Buffoons -- The Marvelous GOP Unreality Show

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - However shocked we are by the dismal quality of the GOP campaign, let us assess the revelations from a gang of candidates we are most unlikely to ever see again, in our lifetime. Cringe moments galore do have their payoffs!

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OpEdNews - Article: OWS is going to be what the people make it.

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Michael Cheverie Dewey - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - Some issues about State Banks helping fund States. State Public Options for Healthcare. And Foreign Policy changes needed to rebuild this Broken Promised Land.

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OpEdNews - Article: Puny Krauthammer Ambushes a Science Giant

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - Not only does rightwinger Charles Krauthammer drag in a contradiction about politics the size of Jupiter, he impugns a great scientist and science popularizer in the process. As Carl Sagan is not here to defend himself, I take up the cudgel.

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"God Particle' Refudiates the Religious Right

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - Merry God Particle Day. Another major blow to simple-minded notions of the universe, especially some guy high in the sky who created everything by declaring it so. How neat that real explanation is far richer and more complex and more engagingly human.

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A Congress of Cowards

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Rob Kall - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - Congress is punting again, this time on the tax cut extension. This pattern, which has led to the lowest approval levels since measures of approval were taken, has become chronic. It's really about the bulk of the members of congress being cowards who are intentionally destroying the balance of powers between legislative, Judiciary and Exectutive, so they can save their jobs.

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Sanders Files "Saving American Democracy Amendment'

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Dec. 11 (News) - The first constitutional amendment ever proposed by Sanders during his two decades in Congress would reverse the narrow 5-to-4 ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission. In that controversial decision almost two years ago, justices gave corporations the same First Amendment free-speech rights as people.

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OpEdNews - Article: Does Bad Behavior = Power & Glory?

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Robert Becker - Dec. 05 (Opinion) - Two blows to my mental supports made me appreciate a new book that declares all leaders must follow the same rules because they share the same bottom line: getting, then staying empowered. Lessons for all, including Bush and Obama -- who needs to pick up his game or go bye bye.

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OpEdNews - Article: Are the Rich Getting Denser, Or Just More Brazen?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - Only an electorate of dunces bounces from one dunce to another, but today's GOP primary voters do that to a tee. Even stranger is the paradox of how so much affluent, even rich rightwingers can be so dumb about life and other people. It's a mystery that I address.

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Worker Ownership Cooperatives Are Our Way Out of This Mess

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Michael Cheverie Dewey - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - I first heard of the Mondragon Cooprative of the Basque in Spain, back in 1994. My Mom had been telling m the Family History of the Cheveries who are Basque. The French had kicked the Cheverie's out of France. We ended up on Prince Edward Island. The English tried to kick us out of there. My Ancesters went andn hid in the woods for 15 yars and had lots of kids. I told my Mom, ''I want to know what they are doing now?'' 2 weeks latter she showed me an Article in the Catholic Digest, about Mondragon's Worker Ownership.

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OpEdNews - Article: Texas 'Ugly:' President Perry's Real Fringe Manifesto

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - President Perry will go far beyond manhandling Social Security -- and his war against the New Deal underlies a full-throated Manifesto for Christian Theocracy and all the rightwing wet dreams. Dream on.

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Dumb is In -- Redneck Perry Re-sets Slickness Threshold

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - Palin-style dumb is out -- and slicker, smoother more ideological versions of hustling walk the landscape. Reversals makes once slow students into stars, aligning them with common folks. Watch out as Ponzi-schemer Perry redefines slickness, with skills beyond W.

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Perils of Palin, Outing of Obama -- When High & Mighties Tumble

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 29 (Opinion) - Don't scoff: comparing the sudden rise and equally dramatic fall of the two fresh faces from '08 -- yes, that Palin loser-quitter, that president Obama -- yields intriguing insights. See for yourself. Rick Perry thrown in at N/C.

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OpEdNews - Article: America Defaults -- On Credit and Creditability

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - It's one thing when you lose a political fight, don't get a program through, or lose an appointee to Senate chicanery. These are about something. What happens when a president and party in power are ambushed, mortified, and defeated, with little or nothing at stake?

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Nullifying the Future -- Tyranny of the Minority

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert S. Becker - Aug. 09 (Opinion) - The Tea Party, like the Civil War, dramatize and test our core value -- does the majority rule when a strident obstructionist minority gets in its way? I say No when 20% trumps 80%.

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OpEdNews - Article: Debt Wreck at Welchers' Corral -- Five Uneasy Lessons

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - Yes, there is good news from the horrible debt ceiling agreement but it takes a certain kind of inspired optimism and long-range thinking to find. Voila!

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OpEdNews - Article: Yes, Perfect Debt Solution, Barack: Take the 14th & Run

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Sometimes the simplest, most lawful decision is the best. Go ahead, Barack, hit it out of the park.

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At OpEdNews: Squawking Crisis Junkies War Against Our Future

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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OpEdNews - Article: Flop as Progressive Force, the Internet Devolves to Entertainment

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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OpEdNews - Article: 'Winning Arguments' - Apex of Human Reason?

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - If reason didn't evolve to bring us all into the light of progress, solving our most critical problems, then what hope is there? Without reason and logic and methodology, we are prey to lower impulses, as current politics displays all too clearly.

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OpEdNews - Article: On Tap From America's Sexiest Demagogue - 'Prophesies of Palin' to Unify Holy-Rollers

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - Next gig for our most dangerous demagogue -- the logical shift from failed politics to successful marketing of salvation, evangelical-style. Palin has all it takes -- and more. Va-voom.

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OpEdNews - Article: What This World Needs: More Inspiring Protest Mentors, Like Diane Wilson

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Obama Comes for the Journalists

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Rory O'Connor - May. 26 (Opinion) - It's bad enough that ever since President Obama took office, he has repeatedly gone after whistleblowers like Sterling with a cold vengeance, charging more people in cases involving leaking information than "all previous presidents combined." Now the Obama Justice Department is threatening to jail a journalist as well.

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Cheering Netanyahu's Intransigence

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert Parry - May. 26 (Opinion) - Congress, with repeated standing ovations, showed its love for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the valentine may have unintended consequences by stirring dangerous passions of Likud's rejectionist wing, which is now weighing the risks of transforming Israel into an overtly apartheid state. These hardliners might well interpret the congressional obsequiousness as signaling that Israel still has a free hand to do whatever it wants, even if that means defying President Barack Obama's mild pressure for movement toward peace with the Palestinians.

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