May 13 2014
B is for Bumpkins By Jacques d’Nalgar, May 13 2014 CE Back in 1973, Jerry Jeff Walker had a big hit with a Ray Wylie Hubbard song that, 40 years later, is still a favorite with the sing-along bar crowd. Inspired by memories of that song from my long-ago raucous college days, here then is an humble homage to “Up Against the Wall, …
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May 02 2014
What happened to the middle class? By Elizabeth Warren, 10:16 AM EDT, Thu May 1, 2014 A great crack in America’s middle class came to light recently: While our country continues to lead the world as the richest nation, our middle class, once the most affluent in the world, has fallen behind. According to …
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Apr 26 2014
Fox News’ new laughingstock: Cliven Bundy — and Stephen Colbert — will destroy Sean Hannity By Joan Walsh, Friday, Apr 25, 2014 11:10 AM CDT I’ll admit, this brilliant Stephen Colbert piece made me wonder: Could Sean Hannity’s detestable role in making Cliven Bundy a right-wing folk hero, and his lingering embrace of Bundy …
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Apr 10 2014
Remembering Deir Yassin On April 9 1948, fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian village of roughly 600 people. Around 107 villagers were killed during and afte…r the battle for the village, including women and children — some were shot, while …
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Mar 07 2014
Here Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People Dumber By Chris Mooney, Wed Mar. 5, 2014 3:00 AM GMT On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth University and his …
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Mar 03 2014
Putin’s ‘Holy Russia’ Goes to War By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 03/02/2014 7:52 pm EST What do you get when you combine ultra-nationalist religious and political conservatism along with homophobia and sexism? Some might say you get the Tea Party in the United States, but today that is the toxic mix that is …
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Mar 03 2014
Don’t listen to Obama’s Ukraine critics: he’s not ‘losing’ – and it’s not his fight By Michael Cohen, Monday 3 March 2014 12.19 EST In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has been amateur hour back in Washington. I don’t mean Barack Obama. He’s doing pretty much everything …
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