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The Lineup: Week of June 20-26, 2011
John Feffer says that Sen. Jim Webb would make a great Secretary of Defense, and Donald Kaul explains why Michele Bachmann isn’t a serious presidential candidate.
A Politician Who Distinguishes Fact from Fiction
I’d like to propose a new electoral law that would require all Senate candidates to be novelists. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Sen. Jim Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction.
Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation
The number of poor children had already grown by 2.1 million in 2009, over pre-recession levels, with continuing high joblessness among parents raising concerns that poverty will continue to worsen for some time. Since kids who spend more than half their childhood in poverty earn on average 39 percent less than median income as adults, we can expect lasting costs that will hurt the nation’s future economic growth.
And yet, a majority of House lawmakers want to narrow the deficit by making things worse for today’s kids.
Separate but Unequal Borrowers
Home ownership as we know it could be a thing of the past if a proposed Qualified Residential Mortgage Rule (QRM) takes effect. The proposed rule would be especially damaging to the homeowner aspirations of minority and working class citizens, as I recently explained in a letter to the heads of the six federal agencies charged with developing risk retention regulations under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Here’s why.
McDiabetes: Top Docs Tell McDonald’s To Stop Marketing Junk
McDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids.
Sideshow Candidate
n the recent New Hampshire GOP debate, Bachmann emerged as the star. Television networks, newspapers, and blogs all agreed that she had handled herself well and since then have given her the respect accorded a serious candidate.
Big Coal Buys Access to 4th Graders
If some predator were stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools
Austerity Draft
War Criminal? Not Me Boss!
John Demjanjuk? Now there’s a war criminal for you, and we finally got him. Though he had long lived in the United States, Germany just sentenced him to life in prison. Well, at home actually, since he’s too sick for jail and only has a couple months left. There’s no evidence he ever killed anyone, but as a death camp prison guard he saw plenty of folks gassed.
