Oct 07 2012
BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen By Ed Vulliamy, Saturday 6 October 2012 17.21 EDT The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over a small crowd on the lawn beside a railroad track that cuts through the cotton fields …
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Oct 04 2012
Why are we doing this when Mississippi is a safe red state? By Casey Ann Hughes PhD, October 3, 2012 National Reasons Mississippi’s 6 electoral votes are definitely going to Romney, no matter what we do. Therefore, some people feel like their vote doesn’t count – but it does. It contributes to …
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Oct 04 2012
words to the foolish letters to the wise By Jamie Reid, October 4, 2012 Starting from itch, we went to scratch, then to bite. This is the practice of letters, not words. Still less, sentences. Senseless. The letter of the logos. The litter of the low goose. The glitter of the glow loose. At …
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Oct 02 2012
New York Times covers Morsi’s U.N. speech but refuses to mention Palestine By Paul Woodward, September 27, 2012 Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, gave an historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. The focus of Morsi’s speech was Palestine — yet you wouldn’t know it if you read the New York …
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Oct 02 2012
A Letter to Mitt Romney from Samantha… By Samantha K., Dear Governor Romney, I’ll be honest with you – you never had a chance of getting my vote. Not because I am a victim who is dependent upon the system, but because I am an informed woman with a grasp on economics, and I’m …
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Sep 30 2012
I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled By Steven Pearlstein, September 29 I am a corporate chief executive. I am a business owner. I am a private-equity fund manager. I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by …
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Sep 29 2012
The good, the bad and the politically ugly By Cliff Schecter, 29 Sep 2012 13:46 While I plead guilty to being a political junkie, it’s never a bad thing when something outside the realm of our current political slugfest takes me away from reading about our national pageant for at least a bit. Especially …
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