Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Obama’s Change and the Bush Mess : Have We Forgotten to Remember?

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Remembering why we voted for change:The Bush mess and the blame game Eight years of Bush, Cheney, and the cynical political puppetry of Karl Rove, succeeded in driving a deep polarizing wedge … Continue reading →

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Mexico City Legalizes Gay Nuptials : Catholic Clergy Aghast

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Gay rights activist cheer after a session at the city’s assembly in Mexico City last December. Photo by Daniel Aguilar / Reuters.Mexico City sanctions gay marriage:Catholic Church warns of Sodom and Gomorrah In Morelia, Michoacan, Bishop Alfredo India added to … Continue reading →

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Congress : Health Care on Life Support

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon by Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch / The Moderate Voice.Good riddance to Senate bill;Some encouraging words from the PresidentBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2010 The word emanating from Washington regarding health care … Continue reading →

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Austin and Texas : Economic Slump Finally Hitting Home

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Texas unemployment up;Austin’s tech economy fading Since Texas has borrowed all it can, and since a state can’t print money like the federal government, the feds are now under enormous political pressure to function as the job creators of last … Continue reading →

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Redefining History : Howard Zinn Challenged the Paradigm

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

The “Domino Theory” was a prevailing historical paradigm at the time of the Vietnam War. Image from A People’s History of American Empire, by Howard Zinn, Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE Rejecting the dominant paradigm:How … Continue reading →

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Marc Estrin : On Mozart and Auschwitz

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

THE WHITE DOT IN THE MIDDLE OF By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / February 5, 2010 The calendar offers up some provocative coincidences — provocative and tartly instructive. January 27th, for instance, has given us both Mozart’s birthday, … Continue reading →

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Nuke Industry Chaos : Obama and the Reactor Wars

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Follow the Money.Trials of the nuclear ‘renaissance’:Will Obama guarantee a new reactor war? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / February 4, 2010 Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly … Continue reading →

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : The Sage, the Sophist, and Some Populists

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

“The Wise Man” by Jim Warren / Jim Warren Studios. New Perfection(The Sage, the Sophist, and Some Populists) The sage saysthe world is perfectalready arrivedyet arriving stilland drifts backinto meditation The sophist explainsthat perfection is the standardby which we need … Continue reading →

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‘Trickle Down’ Folly : Cutting Taxes Doesn’t Create Jobs

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

The “trickle down” theory: how it works.How NOT to create jobs:Cut business taxes and lower wages? Money does not trickle down in a capitalist economy — it flows upward, and that has always been true. By Ted McLaughlin / The … Continue reading →

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Spying on Americans : Reagan and the PROMIS Conspiracy

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

It’s a national tradition:Spying on Americans Part II: Reagan administration acquires PROMIS software By James Retherford and Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2010 [This is the second installment in a series about the U.S. government’s extensive … Continue reading →

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Stayin’ Alive : Picking a Health Care Provider

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Stayin’ Alive:Tips on choosing your health care provider By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2010 [Stayin’ Alive is a periodic column on Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Rag Blogger Mariann G. Wizard, a professional science … Continue reading →

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Life During Wartime : Calculus of Risk

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThe Rag Blog

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