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Wonders Never Cease

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BY KAREN WEBB The entire Oklahoma Congressional delegation voted to get rid of the anti-trust exemption for the health insurance industry . How did that happen?...

The Bogus Crime Wave

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Nothing more easily elicits roars of assent across a good slice of the political spectrum than the hoarse alarums that wave after wave of brown-skinned illegals continually flood across the border, plunging neighborhoods and whole cities into an inferno of crime, overwhelming cops and prosecutors, clogging the justice system, cramming the prisons. […]

Dr. Beck’s Diagnosis

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BY KAREN WEBB I caught snippets of Dr. Glenn Beck’s chalk-talk at the CPAC convention on The Daily Show. I can stomach just so much...

Americans Can Speak For Themselves On Health Care

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BY FROMA HARROP Have you voted on any of the Democratic health care reform plans? Me neither. No such vote was ever taken. But with coordination that the Rockettes would envy, Republicans insist that “the American people have spoken” on the matter, and they want the proposals killed. House Republican Leader John Boehner: “The American […]

Zazi Case Vindicates Justice

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BY JOE CONASON Before Najibullah Zazi is finally dispatched to a secure cellblock for good, it is important to remember how the taxi driver-turned-terrorist was brought to justice – and why the critics who jeered his civilian prosecution were dead wrong. By convicting Zazi and pursuing the leads that his capture and interrogation have provided, […]