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Ritter: Obama Needs to Learn the Truth About Iran
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, doing his best impersonation of a Bond villain, tours a Russian facility last summer that produces advanced surface-to-air missiles. AP pool photo / Aleksey Nikolskyi.A Lesson in International Gamesmanship: Barack Obama, Meet Team BBy Scott Ritter … Continue reading
Richard L. Scott: Healthcare Enemy Number One
See also Dr. Stephen R. Keister’s remarks below about Richard L. Scott. All of this is rather enlightening to say the least. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Former Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. co-founder Richard Scott is now chairman of Solantic, … Continue reading
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Eliminating the Taliban Threat: Not Achievable
How to Leave AfghanistanBy Leslie H. Gelb / March 12, 2009 ONLY if our troop levels hit 100,000 and fighting floods over into Taliban havens in Pakistan will Washington be likely to look hard at the alternative policy for Afghanistan … Continue reading
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The Explosion at the Shrine of Rahman Baba
The explosion badly damaged Rahman Baba’s Shrine. AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad.Uprooting Flowers on Pakistan’s FrontierBy James Caron / March 14, 2009 Some time before dawn on the 5th of this month, there was an explosion in the main building at the … Continue reading
MRSA: A Potential Cost of Industrial Agriculture
One of the many industrial hog farms outside Camden, Ind. Photo: Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times.Our Pigs, Our Food, Our HealthBy Nicholas D. Kristof / March 11, 2009 The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm … Continue reading
Eschenbach: The Root Cause of the Economic Crisis: Selfishness Was In, Selflessness Was Out
The Death of Voodoo EconomicsBy Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / March 12, 2009 While it’s interesting, almost unavoidable and improbably instructive to play a ‘blame game’ regarding who is responsible for our collective demise, my own view is … Continue reading
Kate Braun: Vernal Equinox Seasonal Message
Vernal Equinox Seasonal MessageBy Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / March 12, 2009 “Wise Mother whose love surrounds me all you make is sacred…” Friday, March 20, 2009 is the Spring/Vernal Equinox. Lady Moon is in her 4th quarter, … Continue reading
Kisseloff: A Review of Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’
Illustration by Hugo Gellert. Source: Wikipedia.Remembering a Red From RedsBy Jeff Kisseloff / March 5, 2009 The other day I sat in front of my TV watching Warren Beatty’s Reds with tears in my eyes–not because I was so moved … Continue reading
Some Fundamental Changes in Decision-Making in Germany and the USA
THIS IS SATIRE on the front page of “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.” Photo by David MacBryde.Some fundamental changes in decision-making in Germany and the USA — pointed at by the Rag Blog Berlin correspondentBy David MacBryde / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Cheap Labor: The Common Thread of the South
Southern Oligarchy and the Labor UnionsBy Joseph B. Atkins / February 2009 OXFORD, Miss. — Cheap labor. Even more than race, it’s the thread that connects all of Southern history—from the ante-bellum South of John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis … Continue reading
Obama’s New Drug Czar: The Good, The Bad, …
Gil Kerlikowske, Seattle Police Chief, Obama Drug Czar.Cop SwapBy Geov Parrish / March 5, 2009 Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly regarding Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske’s nomination to become the Obama administration’s new “Drug Czar.” First, the … Continue reading
