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October 23, 2009
- Growing up in New York in the thirties and forties, there were at least eleven daily newspapers, all spouting varying opinions from both left and right perspectives. Offered by the news organizations were a potpourri of praise and anger, mostly anger, at perceived abuses, both social and governmental.The din was loud, a Tower of Babel of opinions. There were public parades and protests. The ...
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October 15, 2009
- A WIZARD IS A WIZARD AFTER ALL!Dorothy: If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises!Wizard: Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you an audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now! Oh! The Great Oz has ...
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October 12, 2009
October 10, 2009
- You do not have to be an expert in history to know that hatred, blind, bigoted, ignorant, cruel hatred is a pervasive element in the human psyche. Perhaps, given the bloody record from the beginning of time, it is one of the most dominant features of the human condition. The litany of hatred is infinite. Yes, there are people who hate blacks because they are black. People hate Jews because they ...
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October 9, 2009
- Stephen --This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous ...
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September 25, 2009
- Some days it seems so obvious that we might get a lot further ahead if we could admit just how far behind we are.For instance, what if for one day all white people admitted that yes, indeed we are all inherently racist? And what if we went even further to say that it is only the degree to which we disrupt the internalized racism we carry within, that we become less racist--or at least become more ...
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September 25, 2009
- [This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.] For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist. But no matter how laughable, the claim keeps popping up, most recently in the form of the Republican Party chairman’s warning of “a ...
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September 24, 2009
- In his first address to the UN General Assembly, the President denounces reflexive anti-Americanism and calls on the world's leaders to recognize the common challenges we face while delivering a litany of internal accomplishments and policy changes his Administration has impleminted. Image Credit: WhiteHouse.Gov Obama / Ayers Link Surfaces In An Oblique Way Barack Obama's personal ...
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September 22, 2009
- A campaign executive for Gavin Newsom's governor's race said I was "scraping the bottom of the barrel" when I posted a photo of the mayor's green recycling bin in connection with a column about the city's new mandatory composting regulation. Point and shaky pun taken. But, despite my own best lowly efforts, the New York Times reports today that "Newspapers Have Not (yet) Hit ...
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September 19, 2009
- Anti-ACORN Guerrilla Art goes viral in Los Angeles. Here is an example, stencil spray painted on the side of a signal control box on a typical LA street corner. Image Credit: Publius Unearthed! Barack Obama's Twisted ACORN Roots Many of the citizens here in the lower 48 (otherwise known in Canada as Americans), have been treated to a fair amount of change in the political landscape over the ...
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