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Carl R. Hultberg : Jazz Cigarettes
Lester Young was left a shattered man. Photo by Herb Snitzer.The Beatles called them ‘jazz cigarettes’ Race mixing was the fear and marijuana perceived to be the social lubricant making it happen. By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Drug Law Reform, Jazz, Marijuana, Popular Music, Prohibition
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St. Pete : Free Speech or a Senior Moment?
Above, man protests the privatizing of a sidewalk which has served as a free speech area in St. Petersburg. Below, BayWalk managers now have the power to ban protests on this sidewalk. Photos from Tampa Bay Online.A senior moment?Privatization and … Continue reading
Rep. Alan Grayson : Names of the (Health Care) Dead
Go here to add names of those who have died from the lack of health care.We should read the names of the deadFrom the steps of the Capitol By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / October 23, … Continue reading
Sauerkraut and the flu… It is that time of year, and even more so this year that we are bombarded with messages about getting a flu vaccination. I don’t know about you but when all of this fear is shoved … Continue reading
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Barbara J. Berg : Getting Real about Women’s Progress
Women at work: White Oak Mill in Greensboro, NC. 1909. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of American History.‘A Women’s Nation Changes Everything’The (feel-good) Shriver Report …instead of celebrating how far women have come, we should be asking why, after … Continue reading
Faultlines in Honduras : 100 Days of Resistance
Fault Lines — 100 Days of Resistance One hundred days since the coup d’état that ousted Manuel Zelaya, Fault Lines travels to Honduras to look at polarization and power in the Americas, and finds resistance and repression in the streets. … Continue reading
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Tagged Coups d'etat, Honduras, Latin America, Resistance Movements, Video
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David Richards : The Judge Who Brought Justice to Texas
Justice William Wayne Justice. Photo by Michael O’Brien / School of Law / UT Austin William Wayne Justice, Judge Who Remade Texas, Dies at 89 William Wayne Justice, a federal district judge who ruled on ground-breaking class-action suits that compelled … Continue reading
Life During Wartime : Extreme Makeover
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog
Greg Moses : The Cash Cops of Tenaha, Texas
Welcome to Tenaha! Photo by Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches / Flickr.Bizarre License on Highway 59: The Cash Cops of Tenaha By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2009 It was Friday of the last day of August, … Continue reading
Amazing Grace in North Carolina : Halloween Bible-Burning Bash
Graphic composite by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.It’s a Halloween bible roast!Burning ‘perversions of God’s Word’ By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2009 The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, has big plans … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Fundamentalism, Religious Fanaticism, Right Wing Extremists
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Playing with Fire : Perry Admits Medina Role in Winningham Execution
Fighting fire with fire: David Medina played role in execution:Perry’s counsel was cleared of arson charges By Glenn W. Smith / October 19, 2009 Dog Canyon’s Glenn W. Smith and Steve Hall of the StandDown Texas Project join Thorne Dreyer … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Forensic Science, Rick Perry, Texas Politics
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