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Apr 30 2012

Disgusted and amazed

Osama Bin Laden anniversary: Torture apologists try again to justify the unjustifiable

By , 12:23 PM ET, 04/30/2012 … Torture apologists are at it again, attempting to justify the unjustifiable. One year ago, former Bush administration…  [more]

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Apr 29 2012

Rise in unnecessary deaths and delayed care

Healthcare’s foreign invasion

By , Saturday, Apr 28, 2012 02:00 PM CDT … Approximately 15 percent of all healthcare workers and 25 percent of all physicians in the United States were born and educated elsewhere. This means that…  [more]

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Apr 29 2012

Funereal pieties

Christopher Hitchens made a cogent case for war – but he was still wrong

By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 29 April 2012 … There was a telling omission from the range of topics mentioned at the memorial for Christopher Hitchens…  [more]

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Apr 27 2012

Catholic Church’s best ambassador

After Vatican’s rebuke of nuns, time to hear Mary’s voice

By , April 26, 2012 … Imagine the fury of the men of Galilee when a young, unmarried girl showed up in their village pregnant. They must have…  [more]

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Apr 27 2012

I like to loathe people

The “Daily Show” guide to my enemies

By , Friday, Apr 27, 2012 06:00 PM CDT … For two years I was a field producer for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” The field producer is the person…  [more]

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Apr 27 2012

Indistinguishable from the lunatic fringe

Satanazis III: Night of the Satanazis

By Fred Clark, April 25, 2012 … Don’t imagine you’re safe just because Pat Robertson, Demon Hunter, is on the job. Sure, Robertson’s Age-Defying Shakes give him the strength to leg-press 1,000 pounds,…  [more]

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Apr 27 2012

Our crime was looking like the people

We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment

By , Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT … Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in…  [more]

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