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Remembering Patriot Day
Not to stoke the fires for those of you lamenting being back in your office, but this should have been a three-day workweek.
On Monday, millions of Americans got the day off to commemorate Labor Day – a holiday whose inauspicious origins are rooted in organized labor’s mob violence and vandalism in turn-of-the-century Chicago.&… |
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Federalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
The Department of Homeland Security, never known for its institutional elegance (these are, after all, the people who brought us the color-coded terror alert system), reached a new low last week with the release of an Intelligence Assessment Report warning of the dangers of resurgent right-wing extremism in America.
The report deservedly drew the… |
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Speaker Pelosi Loves William Jefferson More Than Homeland Security, Ethics and Maybe Even All Those Grandchildren
Last week, Washington's Culture of Corruption went from just plain disgusting to full-out scary.
Many Americans missed the turn, consumed as they were by the need to get Anna Nicole Smith buried and justice gone wild in the pursuit thereof.
The turn was there nonetheless, as word leaked that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to appoint William J… |