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Prohibitive Prescriptions

You can tell a lot about a person by what in their medicine cabinet. A quick peek during a trip to the bathroom and the nosy neighbor could find out whose taking anti-depressants or birth control pills. Maybe someone is being treated for heart disease or bipolar...

Wall Street Welfare Reform

By the time a good idea makes it to Congress — and actually gets some serious consideration — it is no longer an idea whose time has come, but one whose time is way overdue. Such is the case as Congress takes up the issue of CEO pay, while staring in the...

Weekend Watchdog Wrapup

It looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as the Sunday shows and their guests managed to avoid the watchdog's questions. Rarely has so much been said, in fact, while providing so few answers. Henry Paulson, on Face the Nation, mentioned "regulators"...

The Society of the Owned: Renters Owned

In a post-9/11 America that no longer "does" irony — or nuance, for that matter — it's not surprising that one of the significant ironies of the George W. Bush era went largely unnoticed. Six years after declaring the dawn of an "ownership society," intended to create...

Weekend Watchdog Wrapup

It was almost a 1-in-3 weekend for the watchdog, in which — once again — a question that wasn't asked was very nearly answered. On ABC's This Week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger praised John McCain's take on the economy, urging voters to look...

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