Category: History

Real patriots fix problems

America in denial: We’re number 29 (of 30) By Paul Rosenberg, 19 Jul 2012 09:51   Responding to the jingoism around the First Gulf War, Andrew Shapiro’s 1992 book, We’re Number One!: Where America Stands – and Falls – in the New World Order was a sober-minded reality check on how the US really measured …

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Please. Stop. Now.

Why I’ve Stopped Singing in Your Church By Bill Blankschaen, July 15, 2012   I love music. Truly I do. I love to sing. But you wouldn’t know it on Sunday morning when I’m visiting your church. I’m not talking to all of you, of course. I’m sure many churches, maybe even yours, get it …

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Can you get a rash?

The bane of Bain and Mitt Romney’s diminishing tax returns By Lizz Winstead, Wednesday 18 July 2012 18.06 EDT   It’s been a long week for Governor Guess-My-Worthiness: Mitt Romney. For those of you too busy collecting a six-figure paycheck for a job you no longer do, this is a reminder that it’s Day Five …

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Delusions of grandeur, coupled with paranoia

Confronting Pamela Geller By Harris Zafar, 07/13/2012  7:14 am   “As a Jew, I am offended to my core. Muslims have no right to invoke Moses and Abraham. This is a delegitimization of Judaism. It is offensive and vile. And while Jesus is not my guy, the same thing goes for him. It is a …

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Poor and white in this part of the world

Woody Guthrie at 100: the return of a pariah By Billy Bragg, Thursday 12 July 2012 16.30 EDT   The construction team that kept hammering away all night outside my hotel window in downtown Tulsa are gone by the morning, the fierce glare of the Oklahoma summer forcing them into the shade to rest. A …

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Extreme global fantasy, with consequences

The Military Solution By Tom Engelhardt, 9:51AM, July 05, 2012   Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began.  Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the  face of it, Washington’s constant …

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Standard Tea Party agitprop

Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016″: Feature-length Obama hate By Mariah Blake, Friday, Jul  6, 2012 06:45 AM CDT   Dinesh D’Souza knows the value of a good controversy. After all, he has made a career of lobbing ideological hand grenades. In 2010, for instance, he published a book and an article in Forbes arguing that Barack Obama …

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