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Prison Reform : We Must Stop Locking Up our Problems
Prisons are a necessary part of a civilized country, but they should be reserved for violent criminals and career criminals — people who have proven they cannot be trusted with the safety or property of others. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Congress, Criminal Justice, Prison Reform
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David Carradine’s Death, and Bizarre Memories from a Reporter’s Early Years
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. I had never seen anything as ghastly. His upper body was pasty white. From about his pelvis down, the flesh was a dark port color. By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Robert Reich : Big Pharma and Big Insurance Vs. Health Care ‘Public Option’
Sen. Olympia Snowe: diluting the “public option.” Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.How Pharma and Insurance intend to kill the public option, and what Obama and the rest of us must do By Robert Reich / June 5, 2009 … Continue reading
Steve Weissman : Obama Speaks. Will Palestine or Pakistan Decide?
Barack Obama’s speech drew huge audiences in the Muslim world. Photo by EPA / Telegraph, U.K. A bigger problem for Obama’s relations with the world’s Muslims will be his military escalation in Afghanistan and his ever-deepening involvement in Pakistan. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Middle East, Muslim World, Obama Foreign Policy, Pakistan, Palestine
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VERSE / Larry Piltz : After Me!
“Paranoid Face 2” / Art-Visionary. After Me! (for Richard and Thorne) I just don’t know which way to goI just can’t think here on the brinkam I deranged or madif so I’m gladdon’t know what else could feel so bad the … Continue reading
Global Peace Index : Nations With More Atheism are More Peaceful
Graphic from Epiphenom.‘It’s another blow to the idea that secularization leads to social meltdown. Atheist countries are, in fact more peaceful.’ By Tom Rees / June 4, 2009 The 2009 Global Peace Index has just been released. It’s basically a … Continue reading
Greg Moses : By George! Austin Leads USA Recovery
Austin Leads in Job Growth Still, these Texas numbers look like boutique novelties in a warehouse of national economic crisis. By Greg Moses / By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / June 5, 2009 It’s a wistful headline, I … Continue reading
Barbara Ehrenreich to Journalism Grads : Welcome to the Working Class
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now ‘part of the working class.’ By Barbara Ehrenreich / June 4, 2009. [The following is the text of Barbara Ehrenreich’s commencement address on May … Continue reading
POETRY / Gregg Barrios : ‘El hijo de Frida y Diego’
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Photo from Yoreme’s Weblog See Video of Gregg Barrios reading ‘Chale Guerra,’ Below. El hijo de Frida y Diego I am the promised root born through artful inseminationI am the manchild borne through prehysteric supplicationI … Continue reading
Scott Roeder : The Anti-Abortion Zealotry of the Radical Right
Right wing militant Scott Roeder, accused of murdering Dr. George Tiller. Photo from Sedgwick County Jail. The [right wing] nationalists, including a more virulent white nationalist extreme, are gathering strength and getting bold, even though they are still a militant … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion Rights, Anti-Semitism, Christian Right, Extremism, Right Wing, White Supremacists
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