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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
By Joe Minarik
Followers of the issue of the federal budget deficit and the public debt have been worried for years. In fact, typical citizens probably have come to hear experts' warnings as a cross between "The sky is falling!" and "Wolf!"
Now, those cries are beginning to ring true. But many people probably still hesitate to accept the message. Perhaps a picture can begin to make that message clear.
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
By Joe Minarik
You surely have seen numerous press stories about how the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat has changed the legislative options for health reform. Different news pieces and editorials have anointed different alternative paths as being the answer for the President and his (now crucially diminished) majority in Congress.
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
By Daniel Rose
The brutal murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old honor student at Chicago's Fenger High School, has focused national attention on the savage gang warfare that enveloped the school in an atmosphere of fear and despair.
Recorded on an amateur's cell phone video camera and seen nationally on the Internet, the murder was just another one of the 24 deadly student shootings in Chicago in 2006-2007, 23 in 2007-2008 and 34 deaths last year. More than 40 children under 18 have been murdered in Chicago so far this year.
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