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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Hoosiers and Health Care : WellPoint’s Susan Bayh
Political wife: Susan Bayh, with husband Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, owns between $500,000 and $1 million in employee stock in health insurance giant WellPoint.Susan Bayh and WellPoint:What Hoosiers know about health care By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / July … Continue reading
Revising History in Texas : Christ in the Classroom
Cartoon from San Francisco Sentinel. Last week, Stephen Colbert tipped his ironic hat to the Texas State Board of Education. The board had already allowed creationism to be considered in Texas biology classes, the comedian said approvingly, and now it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Right, Civil Liberties, Education, Religious Right, Texas
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Kate Braun: Lammas Seasonal Message
Lammas Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / July 23, 2009 “The shadows sway and seem to say Tonight we pray for water…” Saturday, August 1, 2009, is the celebration of Lammas (First Harvest, Harvest Home, Lughnasadh). This … Continue reading
Baghdad Embassy Too Big for Reduced American Mission in Iraq – Duhhhh!!
And how many other King George projects will prove to be just a bit oversized for reality? We won’t be hearing the last of this sort of thing for awhile, me thinks. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Report: Big … Continue reading
Witch Doctor Obama : Conservative Activist Circulates Racist Image
Though I am hesitant to forward such horrific racist imagery, I also believe it absolutely necessary for our readers to know that this kind of right wing white supremacist activity is flourishing, even among conservaties who retain a modicum of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Health Care Reform, Obama Smear Campaign, Racism
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COMICS / Paul Buhle : Beyond the Superhero
Pages from Die Stadt (1925), a “novel in woodcuts” by anarchist artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). Masereel’s novels are not usually treated as “comics.”Beyond the superhero With the boom in graphic novels, comics are likely to appear anywhere — sometimes lavish … Continue reading
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Steve Weissman : Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly
Rebiya Kadeer” : Her skirts are hardly snow white. Photo from the Sunday Morning Herald.Chinese Revolt Exposes Washington’s Folly Rebiya Kadeer, the fascinating woman at the center of the cock-up, would never be taken for a modern-day Mata Hari. By … Continue reading
A Nuclear Burma? My Oh Myanmar
Senior General Than Shwe, Burmese head of state.Nuclear weapons for Burma? It will do no one any good, including the Burmese people, to allow these bloodthirsty nuts to get nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. By Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
Moral High Ground: Elusive for the US Government
I will take some issue with Professor Cole, insofar as he does not acknowledge the extent of the bad behaviour by the United States government over the years, regardless of the political party in control. He writes as though it … Continue reading
The Iqbal Decision and the Common Man
In Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s view, the court “messed up the federal rules.”9/11 Case Could Bring Broad Shift on Civil SuitsBy Adam Liptak / July 20, 2009 The most consequential decision of the Supreme Court’s last term got only a … Continue reading
