All Views Articles for 2010-03-07

Sunday, March 7, 2010
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...
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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...
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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...
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Eric Margolis
Obama Must Scrap Costly Nukes
American ‘Peace President’ lacks courage to pull the plug on nuclear arsenal
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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