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Right To Choice vs. No Right To Choice

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BY DON NELSON I have been mulling this over for several days: Are we really discussing pro-abortion/anti-abortion, right to life over a women’s right to...

Cats vs. Dingoes

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BY FROMA HARROP The fight goes on. Whether cats are bird-killing machines or soft balls of love [for themselves, anyway] remains a subject of painful debate. The first part is undoubtedly true. Cats in the United States destroy a median of 2.4 billion birds a year. Add to that death toll 2.3 billion mammals, many […]

Without Fear or Favor: The Heresies And Vindications Of Anthony Lewis,...

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BY JOE CONASON Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times reporter and columnist who died Monday at the age of 86, shaped the American conscience on a broad range of issues, from civil liberties and civil rights to war and diplomacy, for almost 50 years. During his long career, Lewis won numerous awards and published […]

Taxpayers Bear Cost Of ‘Reforms’

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BY AL MCAFFREY I’ve already discussed how Senate Bill 1062 – to change Oklahoma’s current workers compensation system to an administrative one – would...

Corporate Kangaroo Courts Supplant Our Seventh Amendment Rights

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but just try getting your day in court. Most Americans don’t realize it, but our Seventh Amendment right to a fair jury trial against corporate wrongdoers has quietly been stripped from us. Instead, we are now shunted into a stacked-deck game called “Binding Mandatory […]