Category: Politics & World Affairs
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A couple of days ago a friend forwarded me an email that she received from a friend of hers. No, this was not a "from a friend to a friend to a friend" type of chain letter originating at an obscure source. The message came from a "real" man with a name whom my friend…
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First he gleefully declared his wish to bomb them. Now he would like to see them die from smoking American cigarettes. Either way, John McCain is really eager to impose a death sentence on ordinary citizens of Iran. I doubt that the crazy but devout Ahmadinejad or the shadowy mullahs who pull Iran’s political strings…
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Political journalist Elizabeth Drew has a piece in the New York Review of Books this month that, while disguised as an appraisal of Jim Webb’s career, is actually something of a pitch for him as Obama’s VP. In describing how she was pleasantly surprised that he wasn’t irascible or ill-tempered — not like there’s ever…
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Ah, the Republicans! See what else they were selling at their convention.
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Dahlia Lithwick in Newsweek.
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Lindsay Beyerstein in Majikthise.
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The Democratic party’s presidential nomination process thankfully ended in early June. Most voters and party members would now like to focus on getting the disparate Dems united in order to take on John McCain and the Republicans in the fall. The majority of Democrats realize that the clearest path to keeping Congress in Democratic hands…
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It is always gratifying when a powerful entity apologize to a weaker one for past wrongs. It doesn’t happen often. The US government has paid reparations for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and issued apologies for the infamous Tuskegee Study, but not for the plight of Native Americans or for slavery. Japan refuses to…
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Senator Barack Obma is officially the nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidential election of November 2008. Whether you are black, white or brown, a man or a woman, a Democrat, Republican, Independent or politically indifferent and whatever happens in November, you must acknowledge the historic nature of this nomination. Why then are the Democrats…
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The Guardian reports that the US has been holding suspected terrorists without trial in ships off the coasts of foreign countries – a floating Guantanamo Bay, in other words. The UK human rights group Reprieve has accused the US government of illegally detaining prisoners and possibly torturing them aboard the ships using CIA and foreign…
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What’s with some men of God? Rather than soothe the nerves of their flocks, they fancy themselves as rabble rousers, political heavy hitters, all knowing prognosticators and revisionist history scholars. First Barack Obama gently distanced himself from his long time pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright when video clips of Wright’s fiery sermons surfaced. A few…
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