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Down At The Mall, The Shopping Spree is Over

There's an e-mail making the rounds this week: STORE CLOSINGS AND LAYOFFS: By the end of Dec. 2008 as announced Circuit City Filed Bankruptcy, they promised to keep all stores open for the holiday season, but afterwards, they plan on closing 155 stores nationwide. Ann...

Why Progressives Should Celebrate Veterans' Day

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day in Canada. In many ways, it is the most Canadian of all the statutory holidays we have here -- more heartfelt than Thanksgiving, more widely observed than Canada Day, more essential to the deep strain of honor in the Canadian character than...

What Happens to the Progressive Movement Now?

All good movements turn into organizations turn into businesses turn into rackets. —Old organizers' saying I don't think any of us expected to get so far so soon. Back in 2003, when Bush was southern-frying the Dixie Chicks and the Iraq War was propelling millions...

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