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    • 74 Ratings
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    The First Draft of George W. Bush’s Memoir

    NOVEMBER 10, 2010 10:42AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: initiatives, missionary, iraq, defecate, texas, debt, desertions, liberrian, republican, pet goat, dick, the decider, people in glass houses, study history, george washington, two lives to give, fool him twice, retarded, katrina, cookies, brownie, parakeet act, congress

    • 16 Ratings
    • 9156 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    Is Obama Preparing for Martial Law?

    MARCH 25, 2013 6:43PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: too big to fail, storm clouds gathering, pyramid scheme, obama, ndaa, martial law, homeland security, derrivatives, debt, cyprus, civil unrest

    • 35 Ratings
    • 5760 Views
    • 78 Comments
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    Finding Their Way Home: The Preview

    AUGUST 16, 2009 3:00PM

    By Love Grandma


    Topics: it's important, i wish i knew more but at the time she felt like telling me things i wasn’t so interested, reno, eugene, needle, cross-stitch, lost labor, children's book, manuscript, debt, imac, mac meltdown, poor letter-writers, hard drive failure, master dvd, healing laughter, profound gift, bittersweet sadness, heartbreak, regret, guilt, grief, death, coma, stroke, poignant score, as-is documentary series, friendship, mutability, home, aging, family, insects, workaholic, driftwood, creative projects, blue sky and clouds, photos, crappy blessed videocamera, mini-dv, cy twombly, mike leigh, brian friel, eavan boland, favorite artists, the cashier at wendy’s, ordinary, open call, epiphany, videocamera, anniversary, bobby, michael, mom, meal, cooking, kitchen, road trip, conversing in the garden, a walk on the beach, oregon, grandma, home doc, home documentary, movie trailer, preview, finding their way home

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 2994 Views
    • 77 Comments
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    An Open Letter to the Capitulator-in-Chief

    AUGUST 1, 2011 8:19AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: tom harkin, senator harkin, senator, senate, speech, harkin, democracy, process is broken, process broken, political process, majority rule, minority rule, take over, take-over, takeover, coup, surrendering, surrendered, surrender, unilateral surrender, pre-compromise, invoke 14.4, invoke the 14th, 14.4, constitution, fourteenth amendment, 14th amendment, debt, full faith and credit, tea partiers, tea party, obama, caving, caved, cave, folding, folded, fold, give away the store, give in, capitulation, capitualted, capitulating, capitulate, kidnaped, kidnaping, kidnapping, kidnapped, kidnap, extorting, extorted, extortion, negotiating with terrorists, terrorist, terrorism, negotiating with hostages, negotiating, hostage, negotiation, duress, unfair, sold out, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 14989 Views
    • 76 Comments
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    Student Loan Debt: No Way Out

    JULY 23, 2012 5:13AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: if this speaks to you at all pass it on to policy makers and maybe we can keep this from happening to anyone else, mistakes, shame, debt, student loan debt suicides, student loans

    • 23 Ratings
    • 1990 Views
    • 76 Comments
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    THE SINISTER STUDENT LOAN SWINDLE

    DECEMBER 4, 2010 3:00PM

    By Rw005g


    Topics: student-loans, student loan, student-loan, populism, populist, government, law, bankruptcy, student loans, debt, wages, wage-slavery, debt slavery, debt bondage, usury, predatory, finance, interest, interest rate

    • 34 Ratings
    • 1727 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    We Must Declare a Jubilee Year

    JANUARY 11, 2011 8:07AM

    By Rw005g


    Topics: tarp, greed, finance, predatory lending, usury, financiers, banksters, banks, debt slavery, debt-slavery, bondage, jubilee year, jubilee, mortgages, student loans, credit cards, debt relief, debt-relief, debt

    • 25 Ratings
    • 1228 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    Obama and Empire, Part 2

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 7:23PM

    By BOKO


    Topics: gossip, open call, os, business, tariq ali, stephen street, recession, debt, news, congress, obama, economy, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1792 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    To Vote Or Not To Vote

    OCTOBER 4, 2010 1:59PM

    By Kate Flannery


    Topics: corporate america, debt, student loan debt, health care, economic inequlality, president, 2008 election, 2010 elections, middle-class, wall street, gibbs, biden, obama, democrats, voting, election

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1571 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    David Brooks Compares Obama to Hitler

    MAY 26, 2009 7:00AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: news, german 1933, nazis, national socialism, obama, debt, national financial crisis, torture, politics, david brooks

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1894 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Taking Charge of the Debt

    JUNE 29, 2011 9:14AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: constitution, default, concession, agreement, republican, democratic, liberal, progressive, hillary clinton, hillary, compromiser-in-chief, compromiser, compromised, pre-compromise, compromise, barack obama, president obama, obama, brinksmanship, deficit, debt ceiling, dangerous game of chicken, game of chicken, chicken, 14th amendment, fourteenth amendment, debt, national debt, politics

    • 5 Ratings
    • 767 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Obama Is Clueless

    APRIL 14, 2011 10:11AM

    By DJohn


    Topics: obama, congress, paul ryan, seniors, children, debt, crisis, medicare, medicaid, social security, retirement, leadership, rich, jobs, innovation

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1173 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    The Risky Business of the Greedy Old Party

    JULY 13, 2011 9:57PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, deficit, debt, national debt, national deficit, us debt, us deficit, us, united states, risk, risky, responsible, responsable, responsibility, responsability, taking responsibility, taking responsability, irresponsible, irresponsibility, fault, whose fault, pay, rating, credit rating, aaa, triple-a, aaa credit rating, treasury, us treasury

    • 30 Ratings
    • 1222 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    The Fix is In: Rand Paul

    NOVEMBER 2, 2010 11:33PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: part of the solution, part of the problem, hurry up, fixed yet, fixed, fix, unhappiness, happiness, jobs, obamacare, medical care, consumer health care, enslavement, enslaved, minority party, majority party, american people, we the people, cheering, happy, unhappy, spoke, speech, acceptance, elected, filibuster, party of no, solstice, hourglass, debt, deficit, fiscal responsibility, libertarian, rand paul, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 2059 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Why the Pledge to America bombed

    OCTOBER 1, 2010 12:15PM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: pledge to america, failure, contract with america, republicans, bill clinton, democratic, newt gingrich, house of representatives, stimulus, debt, keynesian economics, health, repeal, john boehner, unemployment, house members, corporations, jimmy zuma

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 1611 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Dear David, We need to talk.

    MARCH 17, 2009 7:06AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: politics, business, spirit, economy, credit cards, debt, wanting, needing, grasping, pinched, lorraine berry, max weber, jean calvin, ideology, mythology, usa, david brooks, wealth

    • 24 Ratings
    • 886 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    The Secret: Magical Thinking in the Age of Bad Parenting

    OCTOBER 30, 2011 5:33PM

    By Oryoki Bowl


    Topics: open call, fairy tales, children's stories, ows, occupy americathe secret, laws of attraction, magical thinking, economy, debt, jobs, family values, freedom, independence, desire, wishful thinking, belief/religion, books, fiction

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1690 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    The fight over America's national debt

    APRIL 25, 2011 10:06AM

    By Waleed Malik


    Topics: debt ceiling, washington, fight, debt, united states

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 2005 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Plutocrats Win. Flawless Victory.

    AUGUST 1, 2011 12:56PM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: washington, social security, republicans, politics, plutocracy, obama, medicare, democrats, debt ceiling, debt, corporate power, congress, 2012 election

    • 18 Ratings
    • 438 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Got Debt?

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 2:38PM

    By o'stephanie


    Topics: middle class, promises kept, obama, mastercharge, visa, debt, credit cards

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