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Mr. Cuccinelli Goes to Court

by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2010 | Legal Affairs, Politics

Pucking Around With Science For a while, the hockey stick carried all before it, perhaps because it seemed to correlate well with the observed increase in carbon dioxide in the 20th century over its 10,000-year baseline. —From Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s brief in the Michael E. Mann investigation AUGUST WAS A GOOD MONTH FOR Virginia […]

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Health Care Reform Holiday | Help Wanted? | Beware the Activist Judge

by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2010 | Economy, Foreign Policy

Yes and No—Yes. Last month J Street kicked off a national campaign promoting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine deadlock. J Street is a non-profit advocacy group that describes itself as the “Political Home for Pro-Israel, Pro-peace Americans.” Far more progressive and eclectic than the entrenched American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC: “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”), […]

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House Republicans Respond to Climate Legislation

by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2010 | Economy

Prosecuting Obama? If they can do this to me, they can do it to President Obama and anyone who ever made a campaign contribution to him and then was appointed ambassador. —Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman ENRON STOCK WAS a prudent investment and Jack Abramoff was an A-List Washington lobbyist when criminal investigators set out […]

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Wall Street vs. Your Street

by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2010 | Economy, Politics

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 into the economy.” —Ross Eisenbrey Economic Policy […]

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

by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2010 | Economy, National Security

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 as a warning about out-of-control budgets, a dysfunctional appropriations process, […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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