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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
For Americans, from 1979 to 1997, after-tax income, adjusted for inflation, grew an average of 157% for the top 1% of the population, rose a modest 10% for the middle fifth of the income spectrum, and was effectively unchanged for those in the bottom fifth. Sources: Inequality.org; and Congressional Budget Office.

Rush-Whacked: Rush Limbaugh admits that there really is a right-wing media conspiracy (Chris Mooney, The American Prospect).
Cold War Ghosts: The revisionists keep trying to exhume McCarthy (Victor Navasky, The Nation).
A Wrong Turn on Patients' Rights: Any of the competing patients' rights bills will make a bad situation worse (Marcia Angell, New York Times).
Making Patients Pay: Allocating medical resources is worth debating, but in public, not in boardrooms (Ellen Frank, Dollars and Sense).
Artists of Resistance: The great artists and writers of the world have almost always fought for the right things (Howard Zinn, The Progressive).
The International Dealers in Death: The world is awash with guns that have spawned an epidemic of killing (Ian Traynor, The Guardian)

"Bear left!"/"Right, Frog!" (Kermit and Fozzie, The Muppet Movie)

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