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Fahrenheit 451: The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. They're back. But then, they've never gone away. The Book Killers have always been with us. Before recorded history they were with us, murdering the scholars and storytellers and mystics of...

Conservatives say they want to "bring back" the old USA, the one that existed during those decades of the twentieth century they only seem to see through a gauzy golden haze. Whatever its problems, that country was a place where Republicans and Democrats agreed on two...

Republicans are threatening a scheme to block yet another part of the government - the NLRB, this time - from functioning, for the purpose of enriching the 1% while driving even more of us out of the middle class. Senate Republicans are participating in this scheme by...

What am I thankful for this year? I am thankful the conservative movement has stopped trying to pretend to be something that they are not. Instead of masquerading as "compassionate conservatives" who want "clear skies," "personal retirement accounts," protect...

Let's hope that the failure of the "super committee" quest to take money out of the economy clears the media mist for a minute, so people can focus on real issues that matter to real people. What are the chances of that? Will our government now focus on creating jobs,...

Discussion of the "Super Committee" debacle continues to misguide and misinform the public in an all-too-familiar way. Once again the consensus in the media and among political leaders reflects the misperceptions of an insular Washington culture, rather than the...

I just wanted to say a few quick things about deficits and the "super committee." 1) Never forget that 11 years ago we had a huge budget surplus and were on track to pay off the entire debt in 10 years. Then came the Bush tax cuts for the rich and a huge military...