Nov 20 2017

Memory is stubborn

Invention of the Mizrahim

By Susan Abulhawa, 20 Sept 2017   The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called…  [more]

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Nov 09 2017

Trumpet players have taken up the cornet

With Paul Manafort’s indictment, Donald Trump is done

By Garrison Keillor, Tuesday 31 October 2017 08:13 GMT   When his old campaign manager was indicted Monday, Mr Trump called me on the phone, crying like a baby, and begged…  [more]

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Nov 06 2017

Thoughts and prayers

Why I’m no longer talking to God about gun sprees after the Texas shooting

By Grace Dent, Monday 6 November 2017 17:36 GMT   After the killing on Sunday of 26 members of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland…  [more]

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Nov 03 2017

Shameless wealth transfer

A Tax Plan for a New Gilded Age

By the New York Times Editorial Board, November 2, 2017   With their new bill that would slash taxes on the wealthy and blow up the federal budget deficit, House Republicans…  [more]

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Oct 23 2017

He was too stuck up

  Dear editor: When someone is lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff and you know they’re lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff and you’re OK with them lying and doing a bunch of crooked stuff, well,…  [more]

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Oct 18 2017

Half-baked, spurious nationalism

Remarks by Senator John McCain at 2017 Liberty Medal ceremony

October 16, 2017     “Thank you, Joe, my old, dear friend, for those mostly undeserved kind words. Vice President Biden and I have known each other for a lot…  [more]

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Oct 17 2017

Because a few inky wretches say so

  Dear editor, Back in the late 1960s, Simon and Garfunkel sang the question, “What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson?” In 2017, that simple question is answered week after week, as the same ilky rabble of letter writers, merry contrarians…  [more]

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