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"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." -- Kin Hubbard
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Workers get snappy new uniforms, and have to pay for them
Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation
Also in this issue:
- GEORGE W’S WAR LEGACY
- FIVE-DAY WORKWEEK FOR CONGRESS
- STATEHOUSES FLIP TO DEMOCRATS
- Wal-Mart’s White House Sweetheart
- The Revolving Door
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STATEHOUSES FLIP TO DEMOCRATS
In last Lowdown we reported that the elections yielded seven new Democratic governors— but we got the totals wrong. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed Lowdowners who alerted us.) With 13 Democratic Governors re-elected, the Dems now have 28 statehouses to Republicans 22. And the final count on state legislatures is that Democrats have a majority in both chambers in 23 states (up from 19), Repubs in 15, and in 11 states control of the chambers is split.