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    July 15, 2010

  • Wall Street vs. Your Street

    by Lou Dubose
    Bang for Your Buck "Nothing has a quicker return on the dollar than unemployment insurance. Once you get to 70 or 80 weeks, and instead of earning $1,000 a week you earn $300 a week, you are in pretty rough shape and everything you get goes right back in Read »

  • Channeling Ike | Wages of War | Camp Followers | The Real Strategic Threat

    by Lou Dubose
    Channeling Ike—Robert Gates's May 8 address at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, got passing attention from the media when he delivered it. Two months later, the speech has taken on a life of its own, in particular at the Pentagon, where it is Read »
    • July 1, 2010

  • The View from Grand Isle

    by Shawn Martin
    GRAND ISLE IS Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island and is normally a destination spot for tourists who want to experience the Gulf Coast Cajun-style. The sandy beaches that summer tourists and residents once flocked to are closed after being sullied Read »

  • Two Congressmen, One Chair

    by Lou Dubose
    A (Dead) Man, A (Response) Plan Rep. Markey: Mr. Lutz died in 2005, four years before the plan was actually filed. How, Mr. Tillerson, can you justify in a response plan having a person who has been dead for four years? Is that also an embarrassment? Mr Read »

  • Petroleum Club | Right Angle

    by Lou Dubose
    Petroleum Club—Republicans claimed to be shocked by Texas Congressman Joe Barton's apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward. Democrats (including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) claim that Barton simply went public with the Republican Party principles at Read »
    • June 15, 2010

  • Tea Party Chickens Come Home to Roost

    by Lou Dubose
    It's the Amero, Amigo Alex Jones: Rand, I want to ask you about John P. Holdern, the science czar. Generally the social planners admit they want socialized medicine; they want carbon taxes, he says, to carry out eugenics. And even the forced drugging of Read »

  • The Karzai Conundrum | War Making You Poor?

    by Lou Dubose
    The Karzai Conundrum—"I want to thank the American people for their sacrifice," Dr. Abdullah Abdullah said. Abdullah might have won the 2009 presidential election in Afghanistan, which was stolen through massive ballot fraud that made Hamid Karzai presi Read »
    • June 1, 2010

  • Oil and Politics | Where's the Reform?

    by Lou Dubose
    Oil and Politics—Minerals extraction is a dirty business, evident in the oil slick riding the currents of the Gulf of Mexico. Minerals-extraction political appointments are often as befouled as the process. The previous occupant of the Oval Office had l Read »

  • Obama Drops the Bomb

    by Lou Dubose
    Nuclear Posturing "I'm sure we'll have several questions here, but principally no new testing, no new warheads … no new missions or capabilities." It is Russia that matters, if only because the United States and Russia possess 95 percent of the w Read »
    • May 15, 2010

  • Arizona's Alien Exclusion Act

    by Lou Dubose
    The (Supreme Court) Case for Immigration Reform Sheer incapability or lax enforcement of the laws barring entry into this country, coupled with the failure to establish an effective bar to the employment of undocumented aliens, has resulted in the creati Read »

  • How King Coal Killed the Union Man

    by Lauri Lebo
    ON A SOMBER TUESDAY MORNING IN MID-APRIL, pews were filled in the tiny chapel of Pax Advent Christian Church. Behind the sobbing women, men wearing jeans and pressed shirts stood together, the nails of their calloused hands scrubbed clean of black dust. W Read »

  • Gaming the System/Catch Me if You Can/Small Change You Can Believe In/Big Coal Big Bucks

    by Lou Dubose
    Gaming the System—The death of 29 coal miners in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine in April was not exactly predicted when the House Committee on Education and Labor met on February 23—to address a failed safety inspection process. But the industr Read »
    • May 1, 2010

  • New Economy | The $62 Trillion Question | Swap Fraud at Goldman Sachs | $2 Trillion

    by Lou Dubose
    The New Financial Economy—In 1948, 56 percent of profits in the U.S. economy derived from manufacturing, while 8.3 percent came from the financial sector. In 2007 (the year the financial collapse began) manufacturing produced 10 percent of profits, whil Read »

  • A War on Drugs Or a War on Juárez?

    by Judith Torrea
    Don't Call the Cavalry Homicides have soared since the president deployed the army in Juárez in January of 2008. In 2007 there were 317 reported killings; in 2008, 1,623; in 2009 the number reached 2,754.   Judith Torrea is a Spanish journalist w Read »
    • April 15, 2010

  • Health-Care Reform Backlash Looks South

    by Lou Dubose
    How Frivolous is Frivolous? "I don't want to say that they are out and out frivolous. But it's extraordinarily unlikely that the Supreme Court will be sympathetic. Unless they want to provoke the greatest constitutional crisis since the 1930s." —Cons Read »

  • The Fourth Amendment Vindicated

    by Lou Dubose
    The Fourth Amendment Vindicated—If the Al-Haramain v. Obama case had been a prize fight, the judge would have stopped it two years ago, when it was still styled Al-Haramain v. Bush. It has long been evident that the plaintiffs were subjected to wiretapp Read »
    • April 1, 2010

  • A Cheney Channels McCarthy

    by Lou Dubose
    No Sense of Decency "It never occurred to me on the day that Defense Department lawyer Rebecca Snyder and Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler of the Navy appeared in my law firm's offices to ask for our assistance in carrying out their duties as military defense l Read »

  • Tea for Texas | Biden on the West Bank

    by Lou Dubose
    Tea For Texas —News reports had the Tea Party candidate losing the Texas Republican primary, as Houston nurse and Ron Paul disciple Debra Medina won only 18 percent of the vote in the governor's race. Medina, who wanted to eliminate property taxes and e Read »
    • March 15, 2010

  • Conservatives Gather for Annual Thugfest

    by Lou Dubose
    Blowhard Journalism "You're ridiculous. You are a joke. You are a despicable human being—the lowest life form that I have ever seen. Your entire job is trying to destroy people with Alinsky tactics." —Andrew Breitbart to Max Blumenthal at CPAC 2010 Read »

  • The Facts? | Tea Party Chic | Dodd Folds

    by Lou Dubose
    The Facts?—The one-year anniversary of the $787 billion stimulus bill was an opportunity for Republicans to refine one of their big 2010 campaign narratives: The stimulus bill that passed in February 2009 is a failure. "The facts are the facts," said Mi Read »

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