Sep 20 2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry: Like a Likudnik By Chemi Shalev, 23:25 20.09.11 … Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan Tuesday morning might be excused for imagining that he was in the middle of a …
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Sep 18 2011
Egghead and Blockheads By Maureen Dowd, September 18, 2011 … THERE are two American archetypes that were sometimes played against each other in old Westerns. The egghead Eastern lawyer who lacks the skills or stomach for a gunfight is contrasted with the tough Western rancher and ace shot who has no patience for book learnin’. …
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Sep 16 2011
Duane Buck And Celebrating The Interruption Of Death By Shane Claiborne, 9/16/11 01:52 PM ET … Last night death was interrupted. Duane Buck was set for execution. His execution would have been the second this week and the eleventh this year in Texas alone… and two more executions are scheduled for next week. When Presidential …
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Sep 06 2011
Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US By Paul Rosenberg, 06 Sep 2011 13:35 … With Representative Michele Bachmann’s victory in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, and Texas Governor Rick Perry’s triumphal entrance into the GOP presidential primary, there’s been a sudden spike of attention drawn to the extremist religious beliefs both candidates have been associated …
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Sep 05 2011
Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill By Clancy Sigal, Monday 5 September 2011 13.30 BST … l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die – “The Preacher and the Slave”, a parody hymn written …
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Sep 04 2011
If Rick Perry is an economic miracle worker, why are so many Texans going hungry? By John Turner, Sunday 4 September 2011 01.07 BST … One of the questions I’m constantly asked here at the food bank in Austin, Texas is: “I don’t understand why there are so many people who are hungry: why is …
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Aug 31 2011
Fear of Islam: a study By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Aug 30, 2011 11:13 AM … The Center for American Progress has just released an extensive report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, detailing the “funders, organizations, and individuals who have contributed to the discourse on Islamophobia in this country. ” As …
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