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Federal labor leaders were ready when President Trump froze government hiring Monday. It was a campaign promise they criticized before the election and did so again shortly after he made good on the p
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Published in Extra Newsfeed · 12 min read · Jan 16, 2017 -- I’ve been angry and disgusted about a lot of things since Election Day. But over the past few days I’ve been angrier than Jack Nicholson’s c
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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard that the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 20,000 yesterday for the first time in its 132-year history. You may have also heard that it really doesn’t matt
12 min read · Jan 29, 2017 -- On a recent post I made about how President Trump marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of my readers asked a good, but hard, question: Why did this regime single out som
Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field - protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away. Far from being constant, this field is co
Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours 8 min read · Jan 30, 2017 -- The theme of this morning’s news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the fiel
There are so many reasons to detest the Donald Trump administration's executive order on "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry to the United States" that it's hard to know where to start
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In a recent book review, economist Larry Summers predicts that by mid-century, more than one-third of U.S. men ages 25 to 54 will be out of the workforce. His prognosis may not be far-fetched: Over the past half-century, a growing share of so-called “prime-age” males has given up searching for…
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