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    • 74 Ratings
    • 3724 Views
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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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 15261 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 3027 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
    • 38 Ratings
    • 1618 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

    • 35 Ratings
    • 5837 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

    • 34 Ratings
    • 1761 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

    • 30 Ratings
    • 1237 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

    • 27 Ratings
    • 652 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    How I know I won't be rich anytime soon: Open Call

    JANUARY 17, 2011 5:20PM

    By Oryoki Bowl


    Topics: open call, dating, humor, habits, money, wealth, debt, work, ambition, finances

    • 25 Ratings
    • 1234 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

    • 24 Ratings
    • 894 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

    • 23 Ratings
    • 2030 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1578 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

    • 21 Ratings
    • 1184 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Paying for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

    NOVEMBER 14, 2010 6:14PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: shell game, burden, fiscal reform, fiscal responsibility, debt, deficit, unnecessary spending, unwanted spending, self-reliant, people's business, shift, change, democrats, republicans, tea partiers, tea party, 2012, 2010, middle class, wealthy, pay for themselves, pay for, alan greenspan, david gregory, john mccain, meet the press, expiring, expire, sunset provision, sunset, bush tax cuts, tax cuts, tax breaks, politics

    • 20 Ratings
    • 1137 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    A Real Show of Humanity

    AUGUST 3, 2011 4:18AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, giffords, gabby giffords, gabrielle giffords, shooting, health care, social security, medicare, safety net, cuts, budget cuts, insurance, health insurance, debt, debt limit, vote, recovery, recovered, return, returned, greeted, hug, hugs, hugged, mingled, returned to vote, historic

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1307 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Gang of 12. Ready. Aim. Negotiate!

    OCTOBER 7, 2011 12:46PM

    By Graham Sale


    Topics: saturday cartoons, cartoons, humor, graham sale, congress, obama, economy, debt, jobs, negotiation, democrats, gop, follies, super debt committee, gang of 12

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1183 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

    • 19 Ratings
    • 624 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Depression descendant - Don't owe nobody nothin'

    AUGUST 14, 2010 8:55AM

    By Myriad


    Topics: foreclosures, housing, debt

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 2428 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Simile

    DECEMBER 11, 2009 2:23PM

    By Vac


    Topics: fico, credit, debt, divorce, ex-wife

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1909 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

    • 18 Ratings
    • 442 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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