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The US Economy: 'We Are Losing Our Way'
April 6, 2011 6 min. read

The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely. Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them is grim.

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Hopey changey stuff
September 23, 2010 3 min. read

There’s a lot going on lately, and a fair number of calls to the Obama administration to take note and react to all of it. Nothing from Washington yet. First, the Cuban Labor Federation came right out and announced that 1 million public sector jobs were set to be eliminated, half of these by next […]

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Step two on attacking illegality
February 4, 2010 1 min. read

Earlier this week, Havana announced a two-month amnesty for gun owners across the country to register their unlicensed guns and thus (ideally, but probably not actually) eliminate the illegal gun culture in the country. Today, perhaps on a related bent to curb illegality in all its forms and better account for the true situation in the […]

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Story of the day: gun rights in Cuba
February 2, 2010 1 min. read

Today, Cuba declared a two-month amnesty for unlicensed gun owners—an implicit acknowledgment of the presence of an illegal underground market in Cuba, since very few individuals beyond active military personnel and state security agents are legally allowed to even possess weapons. As the Associated Press reports: “Even most police officers are required to leave their […]

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