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The Ability Of The 1 Percent To Buy Politicians And Regulators Is Nothing New In American Politics - Just As Inequality Has Been A Permanent Part Of Our Economic System. This Is True Of Virtually All Political And Economic Systems.

To Own The Dominant, Or Only, Newspaper In A Mid-sized American City Was, For Many Decades, A Kind Of License To Print Money. In The Internet Age, However, No One Has Figured Out How To Rescue The Newspaper In The United States Or Abroad.

Half The U.s. Population Owns Barely 2 Percent Of Its Wealth, Putting The United States Near Rwanda And Uganda And Below Such Nations As Pre-arab Spring Tunisia And Egypt When Measured By Degrees Of Income Inequality.

The War On Terrorism Was A Bait And Switch Operation.

More And More, Democrats Are Starting To Worry They That They Have A More Um, Colorful Version Of Jimmy Carter On Their Hands. Obama Acts Cool As A Proverbial Cucumber But That Awful '70s Show Seems Frightfully Close To A Rerun.