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By Dean Baker New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is well known for pretentious columns that consist of letters that he suggests some prominent person

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Justices rebuff Chicago, which defended ban as reasonable exercise of local power The Supreme Court held Monday that Americans have the right to own a

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