Nov 10 2014
General Dan Bolger says what the US does not want to hear: Why We Lost By Spencer Ackerman, Monday 10 November 2014 00.01 EST Dan Bolger is not looking to add to the debate over the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The retired three-star army general, out of patience with unresolved conflicts, means to end it. …
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Nov 09 2014
Dear editor: With regard to Ms. Zitko’s letter of Thursday, Nov. 6, I have this to say. Yes, this election was about opposing and hopefully stopping so much of this president’s policies. It didn’t happen just in the South, Ms. Zitko; it was nationwide. I won’t name all the states, because you know. …
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Oct 31 2014
The Real Origins of the Religious Right By Randall Balmer, May 27, 2014 One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The …
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Oct 20 2014
The Short Version The birth of the Memphis Blues Caravan occurred late one night in Steve LaVere’s music store in Memphis. LaVere and I had become acquainted through some dates I had booked for Furry Lewis. I had arranged these dates after finding LaVere’s number in the Billboard performance publication as the contact …
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Oct 19 2014
Elie Wiesel hides ethnic cleansing behind a prayer shawl By Yossi Sarid, Oct. 17, 2014 1:16 AM Much have I learned from gossip columns, which for reasons of propriety are also called “social columns.” Without them how would we know who’s going with whom and for what gain? Before turning to the news pages, …
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Oct 19 2014
Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses. My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a reminder of all the people we killed during our precious-moment wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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Oct 12 2014
On the right-of-way of the New York Central Railroad, track-walkers, sand-house men, “shacks” and section-hands used to tell this ghost story of Lincoln’s funeral train. So said the Albany Evening Times: “Regularly in the month of April, about midnight the air on the tracks becomes very keen and cutting. On either side of the …
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