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Thursday, July 23, 2015

What American Wealth Means to You and Me


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What American Wealth Means to You and Me

Michael T. Hertz: Let's just suppose that we allotted $10 million in wealth to the top 5,000 people in the U.S. That would leave $83,658 billion for the rest of us, or a miserable $262,333 each.


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THURSDAY, 23 JULY 2015

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How NPR Gets Sandra Bland Reporting All Wrong

Sharon Kyle: Seconds into the report Kaste sets a tone that would lead a reasonable person to believe that Bland was in some way to blame for the series of events leading to her arrest.
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Trump: Rising From the GOP’s Ashes

Tina Dupuy: If we’re going by cognitive dissonance theory, Trump is the true believers doubling down on their resolve and grasping at straws to justify why Republican policies, when put into practice, utterly fail in every imaginable way.

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What the National Coming Out Day Wrought

Carl Matthes: In about 50 years, LGBT folk built a tremendous network of support institutions; fought vigorously over legal matters and in the courts; became important to the political process and took on HIV/AIDS.

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What American Wealth Means to You and Me

Michael T. Hertz: Let's just suppose that we allotted $10 million in wealth to the top 5,000 people in the U.S. That would leave $83,658 billion for the rest of us, or a miserable $262,333 each.

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Bill Clinton's Apology – Not Accepted

Herbert Dyer, Jr: Just after Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992, someone asked me what I thought of the self-described “new” Democrat in the White House. “Just another white boy,” I responded.


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