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CNE Syndrome Strikes State Governments

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - May 6, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER It’s well-known that harsh climate conditions can mess with your mind – from cabin fever to heat delirium. But America is now experiencing an even more dangerous mind-numbing disease called Climaticus Non-vocalism Extremism. Oddly, CNE Syndrome almost exclusively afflicts a narrow segment of our population: Republican political officials and candidates. Scientific studies suggest that CNE Syndrome might stem from a genetic defect, but scientists say more research is needed on that. The […]

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Defeatism In Baltimore

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 30, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Using the most bloodless terms, an economist explained the failure or inability of so many African-Americans to rise from their impoverished circumstances. They do not respond to the economic incentives that push others to study and strive, he said. Penniless peasants from Central America pile into freight trains to secure any job in the land of plenty. Black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa are clearly moving up. So have many African-Americans […]

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Corporate Cluster Bomb Over U.S. Sovereignty

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The Powers That Be are very unhappy with you and me. They’re also very unhappy with senators like Elizabeth Warren, activist groups like Public Citizen, unions like the Communications Workers of America and … well, with the majority of us Americans who oppose the establishment’s latest free-trade scam. Despite its benign name, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a cluster bomb of legalized “gotchas” that won’t bode well for the vast majority of Americans […]

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Summer In The City

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 29, 2015 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH What is a major league baseball game without any fans there to cheer? No one selling hot dogs, no one hawking programs, no need for any ushers. Welcome to Baltimore, where the first two games of a three-game series were postponed and the third is to be played with no people, lest what should be a sporting event degenerate into a race riot. And so, in the spring of 2015, we add […]

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Gingrich Is Right: Double Medical Research Budget

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - April 28, 2015 0

BY FROMA HARROP Newt Gingrich recently recalled the bipartisan deal that doubled the budget for the National Institutes of Health – with fondness. This was about 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans under Gingrich had just taken over Congress. Never a member of the Gingrich fan club, I nonetheless join other liberal-minded observers in hailing the former House speaker not only for not disowning that investment in national greatness but for […]

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