Changing the way oil drives US policy By PJ Crowley, Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This is not about the intelligence community, but American politics, policy and behaviour. We still don’t see …
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Jul 10 2011
Committed to the rule
My lost boy John Walker Lindh Frank Lindh, Sunday 10 July 2011 … John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John is scholarly and devout, devoted to his family, and blessed with …
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Jul 09 2011
A mockery of sainthood
2,000 Years of Popes, Sacred and Profane By Bill Keller, July 7, 2011 … John Julius Norwich makes a point of saying in the introduction to his history of the popes that he is “no scholar” and that he is “an agnostic Protestant.” The first point means that while he will be scrupulous with his …
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Jul 08 2011
Not above dog-whistling
No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History By Spencer Critchley, 7/3/11 08:24 PM ET … The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann’s double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old John Quincy Adams, “worked tirelessly” to end slavery, despite writing it into the Constitution and owning …
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Jul 08 2011
Turning the sun backward
How the religious right distorts history By Susan Jacoby, 01:31 PM ET, 07/06/2011 … On the Fourth of July, the Today show featured an annual ceremony at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, in which hundreds of immigrants take the oath that makes them naturalized citizens of the United States. Such occasions are always moving, as I can …
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Jul 08 2011
The Wörgl experiment
Largely forgotten now (or intentionally ignored), this cautionary tale is excerpted from Silvano Barruso’s account of the amazing, audacious Wörgl experiment. Had it been allowed to continue, the world today might be a radically different (and better) place. As Børre wrote this morning, “In this age of collective despondency, at least on the part of those of who remember …
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Jul 07 2011
The crazy bus stops here
A public service from Monsieur d’Nalgar: I watched this codswallop so you don’t have to (you’re welcome). This is the latest offering from the Garland County Tea Party: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxe6nCcSbE[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxe6nCcSbE Hi-fi version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rGtnm0ThMM Monsieur d’Nalgar’s painstaking notes: Garland County Tea Party = 3500 members?! Invalidation of US Constitution by a force, come to be known …
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