Apr 27 2012

Flammable pool of toxic paranoia

The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today’s Republican Party

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, April 26, 2012 … We’ve talked at times about George Orwell’s classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush…  [more]

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Apr 27 2012

An alternative vision of capitalism

The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives’ Favorite – And Most Dangerous – Fiction

By Sara Robinson, April 25, 2012 … The self-made myth is one of the most cherished foundation stones of the conservative theology. Nurtured by Horatio Alger and…  [more]

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Apr 26 2012

Climate change in Arkansas

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aunab1wtUfY … The following was just emailed to John Lowery, a Democratic assemblyman for District 6 of the Arkansas State Legislature. – Monsieur d’Nalgar … From: [Jacques d’Nalgar] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:04 PM To: loweryj@arkleg.state.ar.us Cc: dwain@crosslifechurch.net…  [more]

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Apr 25 2012

Burying it in doo-doo

Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O’Reilly Calls Me A Communist

By Robert Reich, Monday, April 23, 2012 … Bill O’Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News, said on his Friday show “Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores …  [more]

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Apr 24 2012

Imagine an Arab’s point of view

Perhaps we should all move to Ohio

Maher Mughrabi, April 24, 2012 – 5:45PM … “After the Holocaust, many Jews felt that they needed a  state of their own in order to provide security for the Jewish people. In 1948,  …  [more]

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Apr 23 2012

Brobdingnagian quantity of evidence

“Oklahoma City”: The Bubba job

By , Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 03:00 PM CDT … In the hours after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, cable news breathlessly reported that authorities were searching…  [more]

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Apr 23 2012

Coup d’état

A Nordic revolution: The heroines of Reykjavik

By John Carlin, Saturday 21 April 2012 … There’s a great big, beautiful, black glass building on the shore in Reykjavik, on a spot where three years ago there was only empty…  [more]

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