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        August 8, 2011 -
        
  
        By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        August 8, 2011 -
        
  
        By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        August 5, 2011 -
        
  
        Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        August 5, 2011 -
        
  
        By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers DigestSinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        August 4, 2011 -
        
  
        With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from the "usual suspects" like the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, but also a wide swath of American faith leaders as well as gay rights activists. Just yesterday the Houston Chronicle reported that: 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        August 3, 2011 -
        
  
        New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. 
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        August 3, 2011 -
        
  
        Facing South readers know the story. After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls.