The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Healthcare Lottery: May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor
Tennessee holds “health care lotteries” to ration Medicaid health insurance to the nearly 200,000 uninsured residents.
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ALEC Is Now Deciding What You Eat
It's time to knock down ALEC's factory-farm abuse cover-up efforts, so every American can see the truth – and the pain – behind the food they eat.
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Private Debt – Not Government Debt – Will Destroy America
There are two kinds of debt. One that’s relatively harmless. And one that can destroy us all.
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The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL
Why are we arresting Americans for trespassing on their own property? It sure looks like it's just so a foreign corporation can get rid of their toxic oil and a handful of billionaires in Texas can make big profits refining and exporting it.
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How the Billionaire Class is Destroying Democracy
The billions in taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil, trillions in bailouts and bonuses for Wall Street banksters, and hundreds of billions for war profiteers are always accompanied by demands for more tax cuts at the top.
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How We Can All Make Money Like the Billionaires
In Alaska, the money oil corporations pay to lease and extract oil on public lands is distributed to all Alaskans equally. Shouldn’t the rest of us collect dividends every time our commons turn profits for others just like Alaskans?
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Goldman Sachs' Global Coup D'etat
The thief of thieves on Wall Street is executing a global coup d'etat - with no one there to stop it.
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For Our Corporate Masters, First Greece, Then Us
If the corporate masters with their austerity regime are successful, Greece will be run by transnational CEOs via the European Union. The country's collapse and the privatization of its commons will be Globalism's first takedown. Soon, it will happen to us.