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Your government at work.
For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
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The Center for Public Integrity has obtained […]

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Remember how invading Iraq was supposed to get us cheap gas? Not so much:
NEW YORK — Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $100 a barrel for the first time ever in intraday trading Wednesday.
Oil prices jumped sharply, setting a new trading record on supply concerns sparked by renewed violence in Nigeria […]

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If you pray, say a prayer for Kenya.

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James Kunstler is a well-known prophet of doom and gloom, yet I can’t find anything here I don’t agree with (thanks, JS):
Events are driving us now, not personalities or even policies. Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and the other characters in the headlines might pretend that they are managing things, but the truth is that problems […]

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We live in a lawless country where no one at the top is ever accountable for anything:
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday to postpone its investigation into the destruction of videotapes by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005, saying the Congressional inquiry presented “significant risks” to its own preliminary […]

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Here’s an enlightening tidbit from my Foundations in American Education textbook:

If correct, the hegemony theorists’ analysis has many implications for education, two of which are fundamental. First, it appears that society is educating in deeply contradictory ways. On the one hand, citizens are taught in the schools and through the media that they live in […]

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brings out the pThere’s something about a “he said, she said” trial that rojections in us all. I was working the copy desk on the world and nation page the night a brief item came across the AP wire: Police had found the body of Nicole Simpson, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, and they wanted to speak […]

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