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Tragedy Or Terrorism? Really?
Conservatives are angry at President Obama’s initial avoidance of the word “terrorism” for yesterday’s bomb attack at the Boston Marathon. (Today he finally used the word.) I’m angry at him for that...
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U.S. Held Hostage
Could it have been clearer? The United States is being held hostage by the National Rifle Association, which has enough senators in its deep pockets to block even the most basic attempt at meaningful...
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Guns, Cash, and Votes
As my friend Charles Mudede noted, these graphs say it all (courtesy of The Sunlight Foundation): Filed under: ugliness, US politics Tagged: election spending, gun control, gun lobby, NRA, US Senate
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Guilt By Drone
Unless you have the misfortune to live under their flight paths, it’s easy to push drones to the back of your mind. That’s what’s so perfect from a US military point of view: remote-control warfare,...
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“For The Greater Good”
This came in as a comment from someone called Bob. It seems to be a response primarily to my previous post, Guilt By Drone, and the earlier Armed to the Eyeballs. I’m running it as a separate post...
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Stereotype Buster
This video got a big grin from me. I suspect it’ll do the same for everyone who’s often asked “where are you from?” because it’s a perfect debunking of the assumptions and condescension lurking behind...
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Sign Here, Syria (and Israel, and Egypt)
In the whole debate on whether to deploy a missile strike against Syria for the use of sarin gas, my mind has been (appropriately?) like the many-handed Hindu goddess of darkness and death, Kali. – On...
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American Influence?
The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, as the saying goes, but there’s a lot of understandable suspicion out there about exactly how good American intentions even are when it comes to the...
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Kludgeocracy!
This morning, Paul Krugman introduced me to a new word. “The fact remains that Obamacare is an immense kludge — a clumsy, ugly structure that more or less deals with a problem, but in an inefficient...
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The Book American Jews Most Want to Read
“It’s almost laughable,” says M. J. Rosenberg of Media Matters. “The organized Jewish community, which claims to be worried about young Jews defecting in droves, just cannot help itself from doing...
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My Abortion
Nearly every woman I know has either had an abortion or helped another woman get one. I know this because as the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood ramps up, I’ve been asking. Old and young, black...
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Who’s Really Pro-Life?
How have we allowed this to happen? How have we allowed anti-abortion activists to call themselves pro-life? How have we not called them out, loud and clear, on this Orwellian double-speak? Many of...
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A Hard Choice? Really?
The right-wing is trying like hell to do a number on the minds of American women. You know that thing about abortion being the hardest choice a woman will ever have to make, or the one she most...
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Speaking Out
Sometimes you have the privilege of getting to say the right thing at the right time, as with this nine-minute talk I gave the other night to a hugely supportive audience of Christians and Muslims at...
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