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Never thought I’ld make it to the aristocrat class

…less public awareness, the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S. occupation through the use of private war companies. There are now almost 200,000 private “contractors”…

Housing: Bubble Talk

…Sector (pay): A few quotes: New federal housing data show that the nation’s most overheated local housing markets now make up such a large share of the total U.S. market…

GOP on Social Security Reform: Waffling and Lying

…has not made a decision to embrace the approach and the first White House priority is a massive public relations campaign this month to raise awareness of their version of…

…political awareness grew during Reagan’s presidency, even then I was younger and more foolish than I am now. At the time, I may well have thought Reagan was a terrible…

…it right.” ***** The Department of Defense’s planned surveillance system, Total Information Awareness, was “right out of George Orwell’s ‘1984,”‘ Gore said. …Gore argued that the administration used false pretenses…