2012 archive

Burying it in doo-doo

Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O’Reilly Calls Me A Communist

By Robert Reich, Monday, April 23, 2012 Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores  [more]

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Imagine an Arab’s point of view

Perhaps we should all move to Ohio

Maher Mughrabi, April 24, 2012 – 5:45PM “After the Holocaust, many Jews felt that they needed a  state of their own in order to provide security for the Jewish people. In 1948,   [more]

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Brobdingnagian quantity of evidence

“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job

By , Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 03:00 PM CDT In the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching…  [more]

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Coup d’état

A Nordic revolution: The heroines of Reykjavik

By John Carlin, Saturday 21 April 2012 There’s a great big, beautiful, black glass building on the shore in Reykjavik, on a spot where three years ago there was only empty…  [more]

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Torrents of outrage

Ann Romney, Working Woman?

By Katha Pollitt, April 18, 2012 Has Ann Romney ever worked a day in her life? CNN pundit Hilary Rosen, not a Democratic strategist, said no way, prompting torrents of outrage from Fox, Republicans…  [more]

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Stars of David. Everywhere.

Being a Jew in Palestine

By Beth Miller, April 20, 2012 The first people I told were Safa and Imad. Good friends, they lived near me  in the Aida Refugee Camp and invited me for lunch every Friday.…  [more]

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To kick at the darkness

Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)

By , 04/14/2012  6:40 am For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have…  [more]

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