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Making Valentine’s Day More Meaningful
Valentine's Day, it seems, has all the trappings of a made-up Hallmark holiday. It's a holiday created purely to encourage us to go out and give our money to a few select industries: greeting cards, candy, roses, restaurants, etc. As it turns out, the holiday has a...
The Unaffordable WeDon’tCare Act
Remember when it looked like the Republican Party could do nothing but stamp its feet and shout about the Affordable Care Act's shortcomings without coming up with any alternatives? OK, there was former Sen. Jim DeMint's suggestion last summer that having the...
Taking Tailgate Patrol to the Next Level
In the ever-escalating competition to be the No. 1 big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx. Actually, it's not the coaching staff that signed this brute, but the OSU campus police...
Winning Elections by Hook or by Crook
The chance to win Seems so remote, When the Man decides Who gets to vote. Political operatives are running websites with smiling photos of Democratic candidates as part of a fundraising campaign. But there's a catch: They're asking for money to defeat these...
A Tough Act to Follow
Congress Finds the Key to Bipartisanship
You think bipartisan support is rare? Not when there's cuts to poor people in there. The Farm Bill again cuts nutrition assistance And barely got any liberal resistance. More subsidies to support the Big Farmer Gets a signature from Barack Obama.
Big Brother Blows It
President Barack Obama's support for the NSA's domestic spying program prompted a critic to say: "Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say: 'Trust us, we won't abuse the data we collect.'" Oh wait, that wasn't a critic speaking — it was...
Christie’s Priority
Whatdya know? Chris Christie knew Cars wouldn't go, They wouldn't get through. Ex-pal Wildstein used his Authority, 'Cuz vengeance, it seems, was Christie's priority.
Failing the Future
If President Barack Obama wants to make action on climate change a legacy of his administration, he better do a lot more in the next three years than his lackluster performance in this year's State of the Union address. Instead of outlining an approach to build a...
This Week in OtherWords: January 29, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati and I explain how President Obama fell short in his State of the Union address on economic justice and energy and Mary Ann Hitt weighs in on West Virginia's water-contamination crisis. On our blog, Karen Dolan sums up "the...
