Dec 12 2010
So America’s millionaires, loyal patriots that they all are, get to keep their Bushy tax break… Here’s a kindly suggestion for an intrepid journalist (if there be any left among the screeching castrati of our once-vaunted fourth estate) – follow these obese felines for the next two years and report back to the rest of us. …
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Dec 11 2010
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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Dec 07 2010
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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Dec 01 2010
By Leonard Pitts Jr. lpitts@MiamiHerald.com … 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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Nov 28 2010
…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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Nov 22 2010
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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