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The forked tongue of the new House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, was working overtime in his first week of power in Congress. It is important to learn what his self-styled “revolution” and saving “American civilization” mean to the people — their health, safety, economic rights and democracy. First, though, to illustrate how much of the Capitol…

Except for the Republican victors, political Washington has been a dreary and depressed place these days. The town’s political media has never been more devoid of imagination -­looking for new ideas but not seeking them out, wondering about new voices but making sure none of them get heard or seen in the papers or on…

When the Clintonites and the Wall Street types pushed the trade agreement with Mexico last year, called NAFTA, they did not tell you taxpayers that your tax dollars would be used to prop up the falling Mexican peso and its Mexican oligarchy. But that is what started to happen just before Christmas when suddenly, and…

It was another half-marathon, this one called Applefest near Nashua, New Hampshire, for a joyously experienced 27 year old runner, Arthur “Chip” Rosenfeld, III. The leaves were turning that Saturday, October 8, 1994, and he was running with friends, one of them a cardiologist. “How are ya’ feeling,” he asked one runner-pal. “Fine,” was the…

Headlines from recent “inside” reports to banks by Siefer Consultants have been finding their way into your pockets. “Twenty Five Ways to Increase Fee Income from Transaction Cards,” or “Ten Fee Income Growth Trends” illustrate the booming business in advising banks how to charge you for just about everything but the wear and tear on…

This is a story of political treachery with long consequences for our country. They are becoming known as the GATT Ten — the ten Senators who broke their written declaration earlier this year that they would not vote to bust the budget, thereby increasing the deficit, in order to clear the way for the final…

The mind of Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, must be whizzing furiously these days. He sees and hears so much that he would like to write and speak about, yet as an indentured public servant of the Clinton regime, he cannot break through the invisible chains that bind him. Reich is not Reich if he…

Every general circulation newspaper in the land should be asked why there is such silence on the secrecy and inaccessibility to both the press and the people of the proposed World Trade Organization (WTO) that Congress will vote on at the end of this month. The newspapers have been printing some news articles on the…

Newt Gingrich (R-GA) can thank the Democrats for catapulting him to the Speaker of the House of Representatives following the recent elections. The present Speaker, Tom Foley (D-WA) lost his seat to a Republican neophyte whom Gingrich raised money and campaigned for intensively. But in 1990 with Gingrich on the political ropes, Foley refused to…

Ever wonder how some brand name products in your supermarket seem to have a large amount of shelf space compared to other well known brands. Well Susan Midler, a New York private label manufacturer of a cold water wash product, has stopped wondering. She knows why — they’re called “slotting allowances.” For eight months she…