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Most of America is Partying like it's 1989.
If the typical family thinks the ...
by Dartagnan
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on Fri Sep 05, 2014 at 07:02 PM PDT
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Devastation is the proper description for what happened to Americans' net worth and income from 2007 and 2010. Making matters worse, the cratering of those three years followed a seven-year period ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Tue Jun 12, 2012 at 01:11 PM PDT
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- This is perfect. Here is Republican Senator John Barrasso on January 22nd, dismissing the House Managers’ case and opposing the call for taking additional evidence: “We’ve just come out listening to, what, six hours of testimony, and I didn’t hear...25 comments 51 Recs
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- Dear Congresswoman Lofgren, I am writing directly to you because, of all of the Impeachment Managers, I feel an (even though once-removed) deep personal connection to you. I grew up in San Jose, and long before you became a Congresswoman, my mother, a...116 comments 542 Recs
- Mississippian KT Robbins was a 24 year-old young man when he deployed to Europe in mid-1944. He was there for the allied invasion….D Day….. and France was in the process of being liberated from Nazi subjugation. He was in a company of bakers for the...86 comments 186 Recs
- I have never done canvassing or phone banking, ever. In fact, I have to say the past few weeks have been harrowing, but I wanted to do something that would force me to do things I am not comfortable doing. I wanted to stretch myself a bit, so when I...48 comments 112 Recs
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