Category: Culture

The allure of forbidden fruit

Washington’s press is the cabin boy of the political class – do quote me on that By Bob Garfield, Friday 3 August 2012 09.30 EDT   The weather here in Washington this week was hot and humid. That’s on background, of course. Do not quote me. You can use the information only if you attribute …

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This is why nobody will care

Chick-fil-A is where American politics really lives, so eat it By Colin Horgan, Thursday 2 August 2012 07.00 EDT   Americans are apparently so bored with the 2012 election campaign that a chicken sandwich has easily taken over as the most interesting thing to talk about this summer. While Mitt Romney criss-crossed his way from …

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Plant a prayer in a conspicuous crevice

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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Blunt truths

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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Window into the soul of a man

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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Just imagine

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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Hobnobbing with the uber-rich

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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