All Views Articles for 2010-03-07
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Beverly Bell Non-Random Acts of Kindness My 85-year-old mother left a message on my phone right after the earthquake. "I've found 44 baskets around the house and wonder if you can help get them to Haiti. They're so pretty, and I think they... Read more |
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John Nichols Why Is Barack Obama Writing GOP Talking Points? If you want to know where conservatives in Congress get all their ridiculous talking points about how dysfunctional the federal government is, how incapable the public sector is when it comes to... Read more |
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Pierre Tristam A Look at Man Through the Vapid Eyes of His Captives Disturbingly recent exceptions aside, civilized nations now agree that burning fellow human beings at the stake, torturing them or enslaving them is inhuman. The day will come when civilized nations... Read more |
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Eric Margolis Obama Must Scrap Costly Nukes American ‘Peace President’ lacks courage to pull the plug on nuclear arsenal Read more |
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David Michael Green To Hell in a Handbasket I live in New York. To say that the politics of my state are dysfunctional would be like saying that Adolph Hitler could sometimes be not such a nice fellow. It’s all true, of course. It just doesn’t... Read more |
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Bill Quigley Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the... Read more |
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Bob Burnett America's Locust Years This past week I was reminded of a Winston Churchill speech where he lamented, "these are the years that the locust hath eaten." Speaking before the House of Commons, Churchill chronicled Hitler's... Read more |
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Ray McGovern Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. He has been worrying aloud that Israel will mousetrap the U.S. into war... Read more |
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Paul F. deLespinasse ‘Nuclear Option’ Better Than Reconciliation President Barack Obama recently urged Congress to use "reconciliation" to enact medical reform legislation. Reconciliation rules allow legislation related to taxes and spending to be enacted by a... Read more |
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Joseph Gerson Obama’s Nuclear Credibility Gap A month ago, writing in the New York Times about the economy and the escalating war in Afghanistan, Bob Herbert warned President Obama that he was developing a "credibility gap." Now, the advance... Read more |