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One Vote Short

By Bill Scher | June 15, 2007

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According to the New York Times, renewable energy backers are just one vote short of the 60 needed to break any filibuster.



Even With College Degrees, Youth Struggle In A Weak Economy
 Derek Pugh
05/24/13

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s recent data on college graduates has been a gift that keeps on giving. The plethora of information has provided great insight into the millennial…



Washington’s Literal Sinkhole, And Our Idiotic Fixation On Deficits
 Robert Borosage
05/23/13

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On Tuesday, a “sinkhole” suddenly sank in Washington D.C. three blocks from the White House. Not a metaphor, but a massive hole in the road as “long as a Ford Explorer,”…



TPP: A Deregulation Treaty Not A Trade Treaty
 Dave Johnson
05/23/13

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The upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is using a process that is rigged from the start. It is not being negotiated by governments for the benefit of their people, it is being…



Offset This, Sen. Coburn
 Terrance Heath
05/23/13

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As I noted in my previous post, even before the winds died down in his home state, Oklahoma  Republican Sen. Tom Coburn insisted that additional disaster relief approved by Congress must be…



The Forces Driving America’s Education Spring
 Jeff Bryant
05/23/13

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Anyone who thinks education is the “civil rights issue of our time”  needs to look at what’s going on in Chicago. In three days of protests over the weekend and lapping into…