Nov 20 2015
The Switch By The Observer, November 04 2015 The Observer got out recently to talk to a few folks who have worked against the death penalty in Arkansas for years, the results of which you can read in this issue. Our own feelings on the idea of society putting people to death as punishment …
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Nov 17 2015
France Has Been No Friend to Muslims By Gordon Adams, November 17, 2015 Once again, a violent jihadi terrorist attack has hit France, this time with at least 450 victims, 129 of them fatal. Rallying around the French flag, even pasting it over our Facebook avatars, follows, because an attack on European soil somehow …
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Nov 13 2015
Dear editor: While listening to conservative talk radio commentator Mark Levin recently, he said this about Obama — “We have never had a president in the White House that hates Christians and Jews like Barack Obama does!” I personally couldn’t agree more with that statement. But how could that be true? Doesn’t Obama say …
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Nov 04 2015
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead? By Robert Fisk, 3 November 2014 I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again. Bright red they were, …
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Oct 30 2015
Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery By Bruce Gourley, December 24, 2010 INTRODUCTION Baptists and other white Americans North and South during the Civil War-era were unequivocal: secession, the existence of the Confederate States of America, and the Civil War were all the result of slavery, the immoral (or moral, depending on one’s race, …
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Oct 27 2015
Everything Doesn’t Happen For A Reason By Tim Lawrence, October 20, 2015 I emerge from this conversation dumbfounded. I’ve seen this a million times before, but it still gets me every time. I’m listening to a man tell a story. A woman he knows was in a devastating car accident; her life shattered in an …
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Sep 30 2015
The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party By Paul Krugman, Sept. 28, 2015 John Boehner was of the House. Under his leadership, Republicans pursued an unprecedented strategy of scorched-earth obstructionism, which did immense damage to the economy and undermined America’s credibility around the world. Still, things could have been worse. And under his successor …
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