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The New Austerity Campaign

I see that the New York Times is helpfully reframing the election away from jobs and the economy. Here's the headline on the dead tree version: "Romney chooses Ryan, pushing fiscal issues to the forefront" Huzzah. As Tristero points out below, this would be a lot less...

Death By Austerity

Americans now stand a greater chance of dying from the effects of austerity than being killed in a car crash. At least that's what a new report suggests, if you read between the lines. The study, authored by a West Virginia University professor and published in the...

A Plutocrat Epiphany: All Votes Need Not Count

America's billionaires have realized they really don't have to bother convincing a majority of people to vote their way. They can put their cash instead into campaigns to keep the hard-to-convince from voting. Our two major presidential candidates descended on Ohio...

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