Apr 27 2012
The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 … We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy of only what we know today. Sometimes, …
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Apr 27 2012
The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives’ Favorite – And Most Dangerous – Fiction By Sara Robinson, April 25, 2012 … The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and generations of beloved boys’ stories, It sits at the deep black heart of the entire right-wing …
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Apr 26 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY … The following was just emailed to John Lowery, a Democratic assemblyman for District 6 of the Arkansas State Legislature. – Monsieur d’Nalgar … From: [Jacques d’Nalgar] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Climate change in Arkansas April 26, 2012 The honorable Representative John Lowery Arkansas State Legislature, …
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Apr 25 2012
Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O’Reilly Calls Me A Communist By Robert Reich, Monday, April 23, 2012 … Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores Karl Marx.” (This came after Fox News’ Neil Cavoto called me a “sanctimonious twit” for …
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Apr 23 2012
“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job By Laura Miller, Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 03:00 PM CDT … In the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching for three Middle Eastern men supposedly seen fleeing the scene. True, this was just two years …
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Apr 23 2012
A Nordic revolution: The heroines of Reykjavik By John Carlin, Saturday 21 April 2012 … There’s a great big, beautiful, black glass building on the shore in Reykjavik, on a spot where three years ago there was only empty space. I know because I was there three years ago, a time of despond in Iceland, …
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Apr 20 2012
Ann Romney, Working Woman? By Katha Pollitt, April 18, 2012 … Has Ann Romney ever worked a day in her life? CNN pundit Hilary Rosen, not a Democratic strategist, said no way, prompting torrents of outrage from Fox, Republicans and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who loves his mother very much. Bertrand Russell, in …
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