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Why Can’t Our Politicians Get into the Holiday Spirit?
Other kids, my friends, would get two or three presents for Christmas (one of which would be a flannel shirt or something), some would get none, and I’d get this toy store.
Color-Coded Terrorism Alerts Fade to Black
Okay, boys and girls, pull out your crayons, and let’s see if you can do a better job of coloring than the Department of Homeland Security.
Dubai: Temple of Greed
You may be a bit hazy on the Persian Gulf. Basically that’s where a lot of the world’s oil comes from.
Clean Corn
The Lineup: Week of December 13-19, 2010
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Toxic CEO Pay Story
As a critic of runaway CEO pay, I have a lot of scars from debates I’ve done on cable TV business shows. But my most memorable pummeling was in August 2007, when I nearly got my head bitten off for criticizing Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo on the CNBC show Squawk Box.
Denying Health Care to Americans is Un-American
Critical issues demand high levels of dialogue that political debate seldom provides. For instance, the profound legislative step forward of health care reform has been pounded with shallow, misleading attacks. There may be honest questions about plan’s specifics, but they don’t justify the vituperative distortions its critics have flung about so irresponsibly.
School Lunch Victory
Thanks to the tireless efforts of thousands of people who are working hard to get America’s schools to serve healthier food, including First Lady Michelle Obama, the $4.5 billion “Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act 2010” prevailed in the lame-duck session of Congress. The new law marks a key step toward potentially transforming the food served in America’s public schools.
Monumental Wilderness
Environmentalists are ready to defend our country’s coastlines and wild places from a new Congress with the same old energy policy: Drill, baby, drill.
Invertebrate President
Well, the Democrats are finally showing some fight. They’re fighting with each other, but it’s a start.
