Oct 05 2017
Stifling dissent By Ernest Dumas, September 28, 2017 Whenever Donald Trump in his serial bouts with failure decides he must re-energize his base of white nationalists by doing things like demonizing black athletes who protest discrimination, the mainstream press falls for it and gives him maximum space and time. We’re addicted. Who could pass …
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Sep 23 2017
Kudos for Trump’s speech Dear editor: After President Donald Trump gave his remarkably great speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “In over 30 years in my experience with the U.N., I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech.” Many well-respected conservative leaders praised that speech as being …
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Sep 14 2017
Disappointing performance Dear editor: I know our Arkansas congressional representative, Bruce Westerman, and his colleague, Sen. Tom Cotton, don’t pay much attention to their average constituents, and I don’t fault them for that. They have more important things to do. However, I am not an average constituent. My family owns numerous successful businesses …
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Aug 28 2017
Maybe Trump is a kind of cry for help from the Earth, a human flare By Frankie Boyle, Sunday 27 August 2017 04.00 EDT So are we heading for a Mad Max-style future? I don’t think so. After having lived through Donald Trump we’ll surely just call him Max. Trump is behaving so strangely, …
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Aug 11 2017
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing’s Phony Foreign-Policy Guru By Bob Dreyfuss, August 10, 2017 The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC. Its author, Breitbart’s national-security editor, was Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka, who currently occupies a top White House post …
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Jul 05 2017
Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time By Howard Zinn, July 4, 2017 On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed. Is …
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Jul 02 2017
In Norway, partying with the engineers By Garrison Keillor, June 27, 2017 at 2:28 pm A splendid week in Norway and now it’s good to be back home, driving around town in my old beat-up Volvo and listening to The Drifters. Norway is a land of bicycles and public transit, lean healthy long-legged people …
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