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Dec.13.2010
Glenn Cooper: An American Writer Only Europeans Can Love?
by Rachel Deahl
He’s big in Italy. Ditto England, Germany, and Spain. But Massachusetts-based thriller author Glenn Cooper is still largely unknown, and notably under-published, in the one place you’d least expect: his home country of...
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Dec.09.2010
Heroism is being retailed quite easily. What you see about such sensitive information is the probability factor designed to create fear and comply with the filibustering by a few big nations.
Julian Assange gets arrested in London for a crime he says he has not committed and not for a...
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Dec.05.2010
The American president, who has been talking about democracy, did not have the basic courtesy to inform another democratic president that he planned to visit his country. Barack Obama made an unscheduled visit to Afghanistan, skirted the capital Kabul and landed straight at the Bagram Air...
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Nov.22.2010
Slavery is not dead in America. Human trafficking – forcing people to work against their will – is the second-largest criminal industry in the world; illegal sale of drugs is first. The money raised by trafficking girls for sex is used to purchase illegal drugs and guns, two commodities...
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Nov.11.2010
From where does courage come? From the stomach-churned battle cry for Freedom, screamed in every language from the time humans first sought to enslave that most basic right? From the faces of the hungry and the war-torn, too ill themselves to fight and who must look to the strong for...
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Nov.11.2010
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria served as President of Chile from March 11, 2006-March 11, 2010. She became the first woman president in Chile’s history. President Bachelet won the 2006 election in a runoff, beating her opponent with 53.5% of the vote. Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (also...
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Nov.04.2010
11/4/10"Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it." Hello all. I know I haven't written anything in a while. No particular reason, I just don't feel that my every thought is that engaging. However, with the events of the past few days I have managed to formulate a thought or two...
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Oct.04.2010
Remember Risha Mullins, the nationally board certified English teacher who was hounded from her job in Kentucky last year?
Risha has written about the entire episode. It will chill your blood.
This is why we must continue to speak loudly.
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Sep.24.2010
The overwhelming readership of the Left Behind series of novels by Lahaye and Jenkins reveals to what extent our “exceptional” American culture cannot distinguish between reality and illusion. A huge swath of the American public has gone out and bought these and other similar escapist novels by the...
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Sep.21.2010
In this time of environmental upheaval, of disasters both natural and man-made, in this time of ongoing hunger, disease, and continuing wars, it is ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd and an insult to humanity to "debate" the personal rights of human beings in the most 'freedom-loving'...
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