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Wisconsin, the law, and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson
June 22, 2011Reading the judge's dissent last week, I was not surprised that she maintained her integrity, as I witnessed it first-hand when I knocked on her door three years ago.
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Budget cuts are really people cuts
June 22, 2011When governments balance budgets by cutting services, they are saving money, but also causing the deaths of thousands they judge socially useless.
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Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits
June 21, 2011Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.
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No such thing as too big for justice
June 21, 2011The conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled that Wal-Mart is too big to face class action justice, but America's workers think otherwise.
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Who needs the oceans?
June 21, 2011The first ever report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean warns of mass extinction of marine life.
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