Aug 19 2012

The scourge of waste in government

Paul Ryan’s rage for the machine

By Cliff Schecter, 19 Aug 2012 17:12   About a week ago, it was impossible not to feel excitement in the air. Mitt Romney of the Caymans, it was whispered across the social…  [more]

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Aug 19 2012

Perhaps it is just nicer being nice

There’s no anxiety in morphine dreams

By Harriet Walker, Sunday 19 August 2012   I have been sleeping in Technicolor this week, after another operation on my faulty leg – this time to remove  the titanium rod that has…  [more]

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Aug 18 2012

Homegrown terror

Jerusalem ‘Lynching’ Raises Specter Of Anti-Palestinian Terrorism

By Zack Beauchamp, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00 pm   Two separate attacks on Palestinians civilians Friday morning raise serious questions about rising anti-Palestinian radicalism among Israeli youth. In the first incident,…  [more]

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Aug 13 2012

Fundamentally, all propaganda is drivel

Paul Ryan’s faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney

By , Monday 13 August 2012 11.46 EDT   When I was a teenager, my American girlfriend at the time gave me Ayn Rand’s cult novel…  [more]

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Aug 13 2012

Porn for mean-spirited Republicans

In Romney’s America, Welfare Is for Losers

By , 08/13/2012  6:07 am   Mitt Romney would like you to know that he thinks poor people are con artists who don’t want to work, and he is intent…  [more]

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Aug 12 2012

Divesting themselves of their overabundance

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Clarence Jordan: The Man Who Inspired the Fullers’ Affordable Housing Movement

By , 08/12/2012  9:20 am   Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912 – Oct. 29, 1969) would have turned 100 recently. A farmer…  [more]

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Aug 11 2012

Romney & Ryan

Now, what does that remind you of?   Photograph (modified) of 1979 Rolls Royce:  http://www.goldcanyonlimo.com/rolls.html…  [more]

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