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“Terrorist” Is Too Kind

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I think Burneko is on to something here: The American political lexicon has an appropriate word for the armed men conspicuously loitering in part of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge instead of going home. It is not terrorist or militia or occupation or revolution or...
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Poverty in the Valley of Plenty

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In 1948, the National Farm Labor Union and Hollywood filmmakers who hated the virulently anti-union big farm grower DiGiorgio Fruit, the largest grape, plum, and pear grower in the world, made a film titled Poverty in the Valley of Plenty to expose the terrible conditions...

Rahm

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On January 4, 2016

Boy, it sure is sad to finally see Rahm Emanuel fall apart. Rick Perlstein's analysis of Rahm is pretty damning. First, all Rahm has ever cared about is cash. If.

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Ban the Box

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On January 4, 2016
Good news from a Pennsylvania court. A court in Pennsylvania on Wednesday struck down a state law that imposed a lifetime ban from employment on as many as 200,000 people with criminal records in the state. A unanimous seven-judge panel ruled that part of the...
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