Category: America

Take me back to Tulsa

My Favorite War By Gail Collins Published: December 10, 2010 … Well, here’s some good news for a change. The Holiday Parade of Lights in Tulsa, Okla., has been saved! I know you’ve been worried. The Tulsa City Council has voted to allow the parade to go forward Saturday night, despite protests against the disappearance …

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We’re Number One!

      No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith Poverty is an abstraction, even for the poor. But the symptoms of collective impoverishment are all about us. Broken highways, bankrupt cities, collapsing bridges, failed schools, the unemployed, …

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A conversation…

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A country of crazies

By Leonard Pitts Jr. [email protected] … We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of America’s mind. It was last seen last month in Oklahoma. There, voters gave emphatic approval to a measure outlawing the use of Sharia law — a strict and often brutal interpretation of Islamic religious strictures — in state courts. …

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Find the cost…

…of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down Stephen Stills, 1970 Robert Fisk: Oceans of blood and profits for the mongers of war Saturday, 27 November 2010 … Since there are now three conflicts in the greater Middle East; Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/”Palestine” and maybe another Lebanese war in …

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Vive la Révolution!

Friday, March 30, 1906 … Three days ago a neighbor brought the celebrated Russian revolutionist, Schaykoffsky, to call upon me.  He is grizzled, and shows age — as to exteriors — but he has a Vesuvius, inside, which is a strong and active volcano yet.  He is so full of belief in the ultimate and …

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Today’s YB! award…

From:  Monsieur d’Nalgar To:  Sam Stein Subject: Today’s award… Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:51:44 -0700 It’s been a while since I awarded a “You Bastard!” prize for overt nincompoopery by one of the morning-show bobble-heads, one of the screeching castrati remnants of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate. Your comments this morning about the efficiency and …

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