Week of October 14, 2013
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Congress: The Joke's On Us Maligning Congress is easier than looking in the mirror. LOS ANGELES TIMES |
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Liberals, Stop Whining and Do Something If liberals really want change, they need to make it happen at the grassroots level. CNN |
 | #3 Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975 Thirty-eight years ago to this day, New York City almost went bankrupt. WALL STREET JOURNAL |
 | #4 Maxed Out Feminists have always known we can't "have it all." TRUTHDIG |
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Congress Has Been This Dysfunctional Before And the results weren't pretty. HISTORY NEWS NETWORK |
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Natural Disaster Politics: East & West, Past & Present There's nothing distinctly modern about catastrophes bringing political issues to a boil. HUFFINGTON POST |
 | #7 Curiosity Set Sail with Columbus Columbus's discoveries pried loose European curiosity from the vise put in place by the medieval church. LOS ANGELES TIMES |
 | #8 Tea Party Wants to Take America Back to the Eighteenth Century Their ultimate destination is the 1780s and our dysfunctional government under the Articles of Confederation. LOS ANGELES TIMES |
 | #9 When Debt-Ceiling Politics Was Bipartisan President Barack Obama is hardly the first president forced to play debt-ceiling politics. BLOOMBERG |
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Their Genocide, Our History, Our Present The T-4 program is still worthy of study. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH |