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Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

The Second Coming of Barack Obama

Obamaone1by dollarsandsense123 Having apparently decided that the hole isn't nearly deep enough yet (which is to say: they haven't struck oil, but they do seem have located a big fat gushing sewer main), the Republicans seem doggedly determined to keep digging. This...

Wal-Mart's Amped-Up Anti-Worker War

Wal-Mart's war against workers has reached a new low, based on information published in Friday's Wall Street Journal. The newspaper not only reports that "thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the...

Why Isn't Big Oil Drilling More? Look At The Profits.

Today, ExxonMobil reported that it broke its own record for highest corporate profit in a quarter: $11.68 billion. The rest of the Big Oil posse is rocking and rolling as well: Shell's profits are up 33%, BP is up 28% and ConocoPhillips is up 13%. So in case you...

Held Suspect

I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia — my mother, my younger sister, and I — visiting my great grandfather on my mother's side of the family. For my sister and me, it was our...

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