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Hmmm: Stop & Frisk Has Plummeted, And So Has Crime

By Christopher Robbins The number of stop-and-frisks performed by the NYPD have declined by 51% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2012. Shootings and murders also dropped by 24% and 40% respectively in … Continue reading

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Leading From Below

Memo to everyone lambasting Obama for not getting along with Congress: The president is not all powerful. And he needs help from his supporters. By Jon Favreau He added the words in one of the later drafts. The announcement speech … Continue reading

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Fixing our Immigration System and Expanding Trade in Latin America

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Sequester

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Time to Replace the Sequester with a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction

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The East

An anarchist group that targets large corporation for acts of terrorism is infiltrated by an agent from a private intelligence group. The East is out in theaters on May 31, 2013. It stars Brit Marling (who also co-wrote the screenplay … Continue reading

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Jimmy McMillan – Rent Is Too Damn High

Jimmy is back! He’s running for mayor of New York City, again. Jimmy McMillan has updated his anthem tag-line “The Rent Is Too Damn High” spruced it up and released a pretty hip video. I agree with Jimmy; the rent … Continue reading

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The Fight Over Gun Control Has Revealed America’s New Civil War

By Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported … Continue reading

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America Stands with the City of Boston

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Gallery of Cowards

Yesterday’s vote in the Senate is again proof that Congress is out of touch with the wishes of the American people. They don’t just cower and are the minions of special interests but they also succumb to their own greed and … Continue reading

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