The Switch By The Observer, November 04 2015 The Observer got out recently to talk to a few folks who have worked against the death penalty in Arkansas for years, the results of which you can read in this issue. Our own feelings on the idea of society putting people to death as punishment …
Category: America
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Nov 13 2015
Fooled by Obama?
Dear editor: While listening to conservative talk radio commentator Mark Levin recently, he said this about Obama — “We have never had a president in the White House that hates Christians and Jews like Barack Obama does!” I personally couldn’t agree more with that statement. But how could that be true? Doesn’t Obama say …
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Oct 30 2015
A prosperous economic system
Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery By Bruce Gourley, December 24, 2010 INTRODUCTION Baptists and other white Americans North and South during the Civil War-era were unequivocal: secession, the existence of the Confederate States of America, and the Civil War were all the result of slavery, the immoral (or moral, depending on one’s race, …
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Oct 27 2015
They can only be carried
Everything Doesn’t Happen For A Reason By Tim Lawrence, October 20, 2015 I emerge from this conversation dumbfounded. I’ve seen this a million times before, but it still gets me every time. I’m listening to a man tell a story. A woman he knows was in a devastating car accident; her life shattered in an …
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Sep 30 2015
A terrible, very bad, no good speaker
The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party By Paul Krugman, Sept. 28, 2015 John Boehner was of the House. Under his leadership, Republicans pursued an unprecedented strategy of scorched-earth obstructionism, which did immense damage to the economy and undermined America’s credibility around the world. Still, things could have been worse. And under his successor …
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Aug 24 2015
Apoplexy of fear and hatred
Brigitte Gabriel is a vicious and probably deranged Islamophobe By Hussein Ibish, October 1, 2009 A lot of readers seemed to benefit from and enjoy my evaluation of Irshad Manji from yesterday’s Ibishblog posting, and I have been asked to give my views on another charmer, called Brigitte Gabriel. I argued that Manji is …
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Aug 12 2015
And here a miracle occurs
The Myth of a Better Deal By Stephen M. Walt, August 10, 2015 Foreign policy is serious business, because getting it wrong has real consequences. When countries conduct foreign policy in a cavalier or incompetent way, real human beings lose their lives or end up much poorer than they would otherwise have been. In …
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