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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Saturday, May 10, 2014

RSN: How to Shrink Inequality, et al



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Robert Reich | How to Shrink Inequality
Economist, professor, author and political commentator Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein)
Robert Reich, The Nation
Reich writes: "The pertinent question is not whether income and wealth inequality is good or bad. It is at what point do these inequalities become so great as to pose a serious threat to our economy, our ideal of equal opportunity and our democracy."
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Paul Krugman | Now That's Rich
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Many Americans are well-educated and work hard. For example, schoolteachers. Yet they don't get the big bucks."
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FBI Investigates Cliven Bundy Supporters Who Allegedly Pointed Guns at Federal Officers
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Clark County sheriff's officials say they've been interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy."
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Ann Jones | Washington's Pivot to Ignorance
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Jones writes: "Right now, all over the world, former Fulbright scholars like me (Norway, 2012) are raising the alarm, trying to persuade Congress to stand by one of its best creations."
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Angelina Jolie Speaks Out on Behalf of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls
Katharina Urban-Oberberg, Reuters
Excerpt: "Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, in London to promote her new film 'Maleficent,' used the red carpet event on Thursday to renew her plea for the safe return of more than 200 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Islamist rebels."
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John Nichols | Bernie Sanders Asks Fed Chair Whether the US Is an Oligarchy
John Nichols, The Nation
Nichols writes: "If the US Senate really is the world's greatest deliberative body, it ought to consider consequential questions. That does not happen often in a Senate where trivia tends too frequently to triumph over issues of substance."
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Lasting Effects of the Polar Vortex on the Great Lakes
Susan Cosier, OnEarth
Cosier reports: "Over the decades, ice coverage on the lakes has been on the decline, but for the month of April, an average of 45 percent of lake surface remained ice-covered."
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