2012 archive

Extreme global fantasy, with consequences

The Military Solution

By Tom Engelhardt, 9:51AM, July 05, 2012   Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began.  Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves…  [more]

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Standard Tea Party agitprop

Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016″: Feature-length Obama hate

By , Friday, Jul  6, 2012 06:45 AM CDT   Dinesh D’Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In…  [more]

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They like authority

Religious right’s new rivals

By , Wednesday, Jul  4, 2012 03:30 PM CDT   At the Iowa Republican State Convention earlier this month, Ron Paul supporters walked away with 23 of the 28 delegates headed to the Republican…  [more]

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Let’s be honest for a change

Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead?

By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13   I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply  cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!”…  [more]

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Thinking like Shamir

It was Zionism itself that Israel buried this week. Let it go.

By Bradley Burston, Jul.03, 2012 1:36 PM   It’s time to take a lesson from the successful. It’s time to begin thinking like Yitzhak Shamir. When he  [more]

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Even facts now have a point of view

Thomas Jefferson, our least Christian president

By Stephen Prothero, July 3 2012   During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello…  [more]

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Uneasy patriot

Jackie Robinson on the 4th: The Prophet and the Flag

By , 07/05/2012 10:42 am   One of the quiet but powerful engines that drove Jackie Robinson’s passion for racial integration both on and beyond the baseball…  [more]

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