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GOP’s antagonism to Social Security seems odd …

September 21, 2011
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BushW

I’ve wondered for several years now how the Republican Party could seemingly embrace a philosophy that was largely based on antagonism toward Social Security. This seemed so completely antithetical to conventional wisdom that suggests the Social Security crowd is such a political behemoth that it is not to be trifled with under any circumstances....

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Is free speech overrated? Part Deux …

September 16, 2011
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Matthews

(This is the second and concluding segment of “Is free speech really overrated.”) With the expansion of cable television and the attendant stultifying silliness of network fare has come the ungovernable opportunity for every nutcase to have his 15 minutes of fame, leaving a landscape of mind-numbing inanity for all to ponder. The fragmenting...

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Is free speech really overrated in America?

September 14, 2011
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Newspaper

This country is in the middle of an ongoing debate that only occasionally flirts with coherence about the role of a free press in a democratic society. The results of various polls suggest that the American public has an understanding of the First Amendment that ricochets wildly between somewhere between woeful and “Are you...

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Homophobia is a social disease, Part Deux …

September 7, 2011
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(This is the second and concluding segment of “Homophobia is a social disease.”) It would seem that the underpinning of the “limited constitutional rights for gays” cause is essentially enabled by the idea that their homosexual orientation is a “choice” rather than something with a significant genetic component. While anyone who has ever given...

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Homophobia is a social disease …

September 1, 2011
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The probability that the United States Government will ever provide any semblance of a reparations gesture to black Americans is, sadly, almost nil, at least in anything approaching my lifetime and well beyond (alluding to the previous blog entry). But here’s something thought to be a staple of the liberal agenda that will come...

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Our national debt to blacks is real, Part Deux …

August 30, 2011
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King

(This is the second and concluding segment of “Our national debt to blacks is real.”) Many Americans, white and black, have started from nothing and reached great heights, but many more have used the gifts rightly handed down from earlier generations as much-needed and appreciated steps on that metaphorical ladder. To deny or ignore...

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Our national debt to blacks is real …

August 26, 2011
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Balck7

Here’s an admittedly controversial hypothesis: anyone who insists that we owe black Americans absolutely nothing at all in light of the residual effects of slavery, Jim Crow and decades of segregation and discrimination is a racist. Or a bigot. Or maybe both. The fact that such a statement is inflammatory doesn’t necessarily mean that...

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A remarkable assertion about 9/11 firefighters …

August 24, 2011
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Le Torri gemelle del World Trade Center colpite dai due aerei dirottati l'11 settembre 2001.

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaching, I found myself reading a lot of material that provided historical context for the tragedy, which I always thought was largely overlooked or usually glossed over. One of the more intriguing books I encountered, Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream published in 2007, included a passage that I...

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There is a price for our dalliances with these presidential chuckleheads …

August 17, 2011
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There was a time when the divide between right and left, Republican and Democrat, didn’t seem anything remotely approaching the chasm that exists today. I imagine for the millions of whatever alphabetically labeled generations are included in ages 18-40, there may have never been a point in their lifetime when they saw much in...

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Nothing left to save on the Congressional Titanic …

August 10, 2011
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Boehner

The collective malfeasance of the current Congress as it wallows around in the self-inflicted wound of the debt-ceiling fiasco ought to bring into greater clarity a starkly disturbing reality: the current system can’t be fixed. Our national political arena provides good government for corporate special interests that provide so much of the campaign money...

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