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December 11, 2007
Disney's idea of sex doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom. Parents, unite: make a holiday bonfire of all that plastic and tulle: let your girls be girls again.
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December 3, 2007
Homeowners in gated communities now facing foreclosure are learning there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
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November 19, 2007
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
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November 12, 2007
As the screenwriters strike enters its second week, take a moment to appreciate those without whom late night comics are struck mute, movies are left unmade and on TV, there's nothing but reality.
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November 1, 2007
The Gap has been caught selling garments made by child slaves in India. It's enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket.
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October 22, 2007
David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.
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October 10, 2007
The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo.
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October 1, 2007
Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?
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September 21, 2007
America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
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September 17, 2007
Now that we know there's a vice squad deployed to find people looking to hook up for quickies in airport bathrooms, air travel has taken on a whole new dimension.
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September 6, 2007
Our mission is to take feckless teenagers like you and turn them into full-fledged debtors.
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August 31, 2007
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
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August 20, 2007
The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
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August 6, 2007
Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.
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August 1, 2007
Chastity advocates: Lay off the adolescents and concentrate on the vast numbers of middle-aged and elderly who aren't getting any. Make them feel good about their lifestyle choice!
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July 26, 2007
Americans will spend $9.8 billion on pet healthcare this year. Why is the President so insistent that we can't provide health coverage to poor children?
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July 19, 2007
The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or some grave moral failing just took another hit.
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July 12, 2007
Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.
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July 2, 2007
The super-rich are taking over all the beautiful places in America. What's left
for you and me?
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June 26, 2007
A closer look at Hillary Clinton's career reveals a technocratic centrist whose political ambition might trump any progressive policy promises.
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June 12, 2007
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass.
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June 12, 2007
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
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May 29, 2007
New chasms are opening in the unequal terrain of American society: To the ranks of exploited domestics and factory workers, consider the emerging proletariat of adjunct faculty and temporary attorneys.
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May 8, 2007
To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.
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April 30, 2007
Marilee Jones excelled as admissions dean at MIT, until she was fired for falsifying her resume. But what good is a college degree, anyway?
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April 26, 2007
The Philadelphia Inquirer is planning to run an editorial column
sponsored by Citizens Bank. What's next--the Phillip Morris
column on health issues?
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April 20, 2007
Although the mental health industry eagerly gives A.D.D. diagnoses to little boys who can't sit still, Cho Seung-Hui's illness was ignored.
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April 13, 2007
What aroused Imus's twisted admiration and antagonism was the reality of
strong, determined, aggressive women.
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