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Censorship in New York

Something has gone wrong in America. Seriously wrong. For those of you who are too busy making ends meet, stop for just a while and consider the fate of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie”. A full account is given by Philip Weiss of The Nation: Too Hot for New York This is just […]

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Do Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves?

No they don’t. Not all the spin in the world can conjure something out of the snake oil that is supply side economics. I know that the facts don’t get in the way of George’s rhetoric, when have they ever? But this stupid notion that tax cuts “pay for themselves” is, well, a flat out […]

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Debt Limit Raised

It was inevitable. The Senate voted to raise the national debt limit by an additional $781 billion, which at the current rate of deficit should keep us going for a short while. The new York Times reports the story here: Senate Votes to Raise U.S. Debt Limit to Nearly $9 Trillion We cannot afford the […]

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