Jul 25 2011

Taxes have to go up

How the Deficit Got This Big

By Teresa Tritch, July 23, 2011 … With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here —…  [more]

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Jul 24 2011

A new twinkie defense

Was I Unfair to The Atlantic?

By Matt Barganier, July 24, 2011 … On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that “ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle” immediately after the attacks in Norway.…  [more]

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Jul 23 2011

The most meaningless word

The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism”

By Glenn Greenwald, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 07:24 ET … (updated below) For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly…  [more]

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Jul 22 2011

State’s ad hoc foray

 

U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq

By Spencer Ackerman, July 22, 2011 … By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat…  [more]

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Jul 22 2011

Boobs

‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona

By , July 21, 2011 … PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to…  [more]

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Jul 22 2011

Sacrament of the present

Remembering Dorothy Day

By , 7/21/11 08:19 AM ET … I met Dorothy Day in the fall of 1975 when I was nineteen. I had taken leave from college and made my way to the Catholic Worker headquarters…  [more]

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Jul 21 2011

Parochialism and arrogance

 

Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now

By , Thursday 21 July 2011 12.45 BST … In the US, a Reinhold Niebuhr revival is underway. It received a boost a few years ago when Senator John McCain and then Senator…  [more]

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