Aug 02 2012
The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012 The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …
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Aug 01 2012
Why Not in Vegas? By Thomas L. Friedman, July 31, 2012 I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi …
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Jul 31 2012
Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012 6:08 pm Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …
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Jul 31 2012
The Business of Kaboom By Raouf Halaby, July 23, 2012 While surfing the cable news channels during the post noon hours of July 19, 2012, to catch up on the sordid danse macabre that is unfolding in Syria, I accidentally caught the last 90 seconds of a CNN report on a US-funded “Weapons Fair” …
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Jul 30 2012
Ten reasons Mitt Romney’s Israel visit is in bad taste By Juan Cole, Monday 30 July 2012 07.00 EDT The trip of US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. He is holding a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. It is distasteful …
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Jul 28 2012
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012 Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I’m not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I’m referring …
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Jul 28 2012
I wish every church said what this church says in their bulletin … By Jon Acuff, July 25, 2012 It’s easy to poke fun at some of the things churches say on their welcome sign. It’s easy to question some of the things that make it inside a church bulletin. It’s easy to say …
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