Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Texas : Rick Perry Throws Kids Under the (School) Bus

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from ConnectAmarillo.Governor Perry ignores student needs:Turns down $700 mission in fed funds Among the Republican leadership in Texas, politics is much more important than educating children or solving social problems. By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / January … Continue reading →

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A Real Crime : How the Law Treats Sex Workers in New Orleans

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Crimes against nature’:Prosecuting sex workers in New Orleans More than half of the people on Louisiana’s Sex Offender Registry — which was designed for rapists and child molesters — are indigent women convicted of sex work. By Jordan Flaherty / … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow on ‘Avatar’ : Celebrating the Tree of Life

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Avatar and Tu B’Shvat:Celebrating the Great Tree of Life Avatar is extraordinary. Not only for the superficial but powerful technology… but most of all for its spiritually-rooted progressive politics. By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / January 15, … Continue reading →

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Bush to Haiti : You’ve Got to be Kidding!

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

George Bush and Bill Clinton: a marriage made in Haiti.Back to the scene of the crime:Bush ousted Haiti’s Aristide, blew it with Katrina This is just the last straw for me with the phony baloney bipartisanship fetish. By Larry Piltz … Continue reading →

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The Blame Game : Reform is Bigger than Obama

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Barack Obama: Were expectations unrealistic? Image from Black Agenda Report.Too simplistic to just blame Obama:High hopes and the slow pace of reform By Richard Flacks / The Rag Blog / January 13, 2010 People on the left make a serious … Continue reading →

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Sweet Jesus! : Pat Robertson says Haiti Made Deal With the Devil

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Pat Robertson cites deal with the devilas reason for Haiti quake By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 14, 2010 Former United States Presidential candidate and Conservative right wing televangelist Pat Robertson is clearly going further off his … Continue reading →

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Vicky Starr of ‘Union Maids’ : Working Class Hero

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Stills from Union Maids. Images from escholarship.org. Vicky Starr (Stella Nowicki) is on right.Vicky Starr dies at 93:Socialist, labor organizer, feminist, film starBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / January 13, 2010 I read recently that Vicky Starr died … Continue reading →

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Licensed Murder in Colombia : The Macabre Ruse of ‘False Positives’

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Carmenza Gómez Romero of Soacha, Colombia, shows a picture of her son Victor, one of two sons she has lost in “false positive” operations in the Ocaña area. Photo from El Espectador.Grotesque staged civilian murders:Colombia’s ‘false positive’ operations By Marion … Continue reading →

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Faustian Bargain : Congress and Health Care

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cutting the health care deal:Bargaining behind closed doors By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010 “The country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold … Continue reading →

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David McReynolds : Gaza ‘Footnotes’ and Israel’s Legacy

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

“The people were afraid. There was no shouting there. No screaming.” Families look for their relatives after a massacre in the Gaza Strip in 1956. Illustration from Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco.Times’ review of graphic novel suggestsshifting attitude towards … Continue reading →

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Got Fascism? : Obama Advisor Promotes ‘Cognitive Infiltration’

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Presidential advisor and long-time Obama buddy Cass Sunstein.Your government appointees at work:Cass Sunstein seeks ‘cognitive’ provocateurs By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010 Cass Sunstein is President Obama’s Harvard Law School friend, and recently appointed Administrator … Continue reading →

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Steve Russell : On Being ‘Outed’ as an American Indian

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Tribal secrets:Carrying the freight of being an Indian Being outed as an American Indian changed my professional life, starting with an overnight 20 point drop in my IQ. By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010 Steve … Continue reading →

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