Aug 26 2012
Breivik was narcissistic and racist… but sane By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 August 2012 So he was bad, not mad. It took an Oslo court 10 weeks to decide that the mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is sane and sentence him to 21 years in jail. Had he been declared insane he would have …
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Aug 13 2012
In Romney’s America, Welfare Is for Losers By Peter S. Goodman, 08/13/2012 6:07 am Mitt Romney would like you to know that he thinks poor people are con artists who don’t want to work, and he is intent on protecting you, the taxpayer, from underwriting their depraved lifestyle. In a Romney administration, the social …
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Aug 12 2012
Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement By Kirk Lyman-Barner, 08/12/2012 9:20 am Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer with a degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia and a Doctorate in New Testament …
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Aug 07 2012
Avrum Burg: Boycotts May Be Necessary to Achieve Israeli Democracy, If Israel Refuses Two-States It Should Expect One By Richard Silverstein, August 5, 2012 The NY Times has published a powerful broadside by Avrum Burg on behalf of Israeli democracy. Burg, a former member of what might be called the country’s ruling élite, has …
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Aug 07 2012
The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then …
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Aug 06 2012
White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012 We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon (weapons that should be illegal) on men women and …
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Aug 06 2012
Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? By Ehsani, Friday, August 3rd, 2012 Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country. How did we get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly unravel and enter …
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