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Another proof we need to tax the wealthy more: funds for investing in guitars & stamps 26 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
By Marc Jampole The market for collectibles is booming. Be it luxury race cars, paintings, stamps, coins, vintage wines or classic guitars, wealthy people are willing to pay a lot more money than...
Wall Street Journal gets history wrong in blaming college high costs on increased government aid. 26 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
By Marc Jampole The Wall Street Journal has launched a campaign to convince the American people that increased government aid, especially under Obama, has caused the incredible rise in the cost of...
Left-leaning economic columnist Eduardo Porter swallows nuclear power Kool-Aid 21 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
By Marc Jampole Eduardo Porter usually gives a reasoned argument on economic problems and it usually leads to a left-leaning solution such as raising taxes on the wealthy or more government investmen...
Legal defense for NSA spying falls to new revelations of illegal spying 19 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
By Marc Jampole Defenders of National Security Agency (NSA) wholesale spying on Americans have asserted that it was and is legal, thanks to the Patriot Act. But it turns out that all too often th...
Selections from the September 1, 2013 issue 18 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
COVER/James Cersonsky Labor movement emerges in Wisconsin EDITORIAL Bust the privatizers; Keep Fannie & Freddie JIM HIGHTOWER Forget student loans — make higher ed free; Here comes the border-indust...
Editorial: Bust the Privatizers 18 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
Attorney General Eric Holder is on the right track with his order for federal prosecutors to stop seeking draconian sentences on run-of-the-mill drug cases, but efforts in Congress to permanently rela...
Buddy Could You Spare Some Food Stamps? 17 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
Graphic by Kevin Kreneck
Controlling the electorate in Egypt and the United States 15 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
By Marc Jampole The powers that be in Egypt seem to have the same view of democracy as those in the United States have: it’s fine as long as we get our way. In the United States, they pass laws tha....
Neoteny suggest we’d be better off if we didn’t take our childhood habits into adulthood 13 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
By Marc Jampole Everywhere we turn nowadays we see mass culture infantilizing adults. Here are some other examples of infantilization of American adults, by which I mean adults in late 20th century ...
Thumbs up to Lavabit, Silent Circle for closing, not cooperating with NSA; down to Pres. for wimping out 12 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
By Marc Jampole Two new American heroes have emerged in the fight for civil liberties and they’re both companies that do the same thing. The managements of Lavabit and Silent Circle, two secure email...
