News, Etc.

A day after a workout at Saratoga, Rachel Alexandra's handlers decided that since she wasn't up to her 2009 form, she would be retired from racing.
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I am surprised 26 people have won the Oregon "Win for Life" lottery. A Medford couple became the first in the area to win the top prize.

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As we know, the U.S. income gap is the widest it has been in history--and as a matter of policy. The WSWS takes a look at the grim statistics.
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Underreported rather than "censored" describes this list. There are few surprises.

And which story made the top of the list? You guess it: Our Congress is bought and paid for by Wall Street. The most disturbing is the fact Democrats decided to ditch its old constituencies in order to get bribery money from Wall Street and big business:

Author Matt Taibbi writes that some of the most egregious selling of the US government to Wall Street happened in the late nineties, when “Democrats, tired of getting slaughtered in the fundraising arena by Republicans, decided to throw off their old reliance on unions and interest groups and become more ‘business-friendly.’ Wall Street responded by flooding Washington with money, buying allies in both parties.” In the ten-year period beginning in 1998, financial companies spent $1.7 billion on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists. Wise political investments enabled the nation’s top bankers to effectively scrap any meaningful oversight of the financial industry.

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I can't believe the principal wasn't fired for this. What in the hell was he thinking?

Instead, this idiot got promoted to superintendent. It figures.