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Give 'Em Hell, Barry | The Obama Presidency | Kuttner - 0 views

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What Obama can learn from Truman's inspired use of partisanship.

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Offshore Drilling and Exploration News - The New York Times - 0 views

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Transocean Seeks To Limit Liability to $27 Million for Oil Disaster - 0 views

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Cleansing the Temple | The American Prospect - 0 views

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Can financial reforms straighten out one of America's most byzantine institutions, the Federal Reserve?

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MMS Allowed Drilling Without Permits, Pressured Scientists to Suppress Safety / Environ... - 0 views

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The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species - and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf.

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Plutonomy, Plutocracy, and Wealth And Inequality In America | Business Insider - 0 views

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15 mind-blowing facts about wealth and inequality in America: A slideshow from "Business Insider." Click on "VIEW AS 1 PAGE" unless you want to go insane, viewing 1 slide at a time.

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Rand Paul: Obama's BP criticism is 'un-American' : MSNBC.com - 0 views

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""I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business." "

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Harry Reid: Wall Street's Joyride is Over // I Think He Overstates the Case for His Fin... - 0 views

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He overstates the case for his Wall Street reform bill...by a LONG shot.

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Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review (.@ggreenwald ) http://bit.ly/covglq

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BP Live Feed of Gushing Oil at Sea Floor - 0 views

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Live video link from the ROV monitoring the damaged riser

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What the BP spill reveals about U.S. democracy | SocialistWorker.org - 0 views

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"...big business has cemented an unholy alliance with big government against the interests of ordinary Americans, who, of course, are the great majority of Americans. The great majority of Americans no longer matter."

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Obama's Crazy Plan To Cut Social Security | Economy | AlterNet - 0 views

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Is Obama's new "debt commission" about to savage Social Security for no reason? Sure looks like it.

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