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Category Archives: Rag Bloggers
Ivan Koop Kuper : Huey P. Meaux Was the Crazy Cajun
Huey P. Meaux was the Crazy Cajun By Ivan Koop Kuper / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011 One Friday evening in 1973, a burly looking biker entered the control room of community radio station KPFT FM, the Pacifica … Continue reading
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Tagged Crazy Cajun, Houston History, Houston Music Scene, Huey P. Meaux, Ivan Koop Kuper, Music Business, Pacifica
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Sarito Carol Neiman : The Anti-Angels of Health Care
Cartoon from The New Yorker.Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the ground – Part III: The anti-angel forces By Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011 [Shredding the Envelope (“Ruminations on news, taboos, and space beyond time”) is … Continue reading
Don Swift : Dominionists and the ‘Kingdom of God’
Image from The Last Crisis.A threat to American liberties:Dominionists and the ‘Kingdom of God’ They want to take over government and create a theocracy. No wonder they see nothing wrong in playing politics from the pulpit. By Don Swift / … Continue reading
Bob Feldman : White Supremacist Republic of Texas, 1836-1845
Seal of the Republic of Texas, 1839. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The hidden history of Texas Part 4: The independent Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2011 [This is Part 4 of Bob … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bob Feldman, Mexican History, Texas History
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Sarito Carol Neiman : The Anti-Angels of Health Care
Cartoon from The New Yorker.Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the ground – Part III: The anti-angel forces. By Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011 [Shredding the Envelope (“Ruminations on news, taboos, and space beyond time”) is … Continue reading
Ivan Koop Kuper : Huey P. Meaux Was the Crazy Cajun
Huey P. Meaux was the Crazy Cajun By Ivan Koop Kuper / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011 One Friday evening in 1973, a burly looking biker entered the control room of community radio station KPFT FM, the Pacifica … Continue reading
Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Approaching 90, I Despair for my Country
Image from Free Health Care News.As I approach my 90th year:I despair for the state of my country(and its corrupted health care system) I look at the Republican ‘debates’ and wonder, where did we — as a supposedly enlightened society … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Health Care Reform, Hospice, Socialized Medicine
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Carl Davidson : Who’s Waging ‘Class Warfare’?
Art from RepublicanDirtyTricks.com / Keep on Keepin’ On.Talk about your ‘class warfare’:Shameless opposition to jobs bill reveals GOP hatred of working class By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / September 20, 2011 If you want to have your class … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Carl Davidson, Class Warfare, Congress, Jobs, Republican Party
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Lamar W. Hankins : Republican Health Care: ‘Let Him Die’
Thumbs down at Republican debate. Image from The Godless Liberal.‘Just let him die’:The Republicans and health care The indisputable fact is that the U.S. is alone among the advanced societies in failing to assure that health care is available to … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Health Care, Lamar W. Hankins, Republican Party, Ron Paul
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CARTOON / Joshua Brown : Life During Wartime: Cutting the Deal
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / September 18, 2011.[Joshua Brown is the executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and is a … Continue reading
Mike Davis : The Eloquence of Carl Oglesby
Carl Oglesby. Image from Kngine.Eloquent orator of the New Left:Remembering Carl Oglesby Carl Oglesby sadly left this world Tuesday morning after a long bout with cancer. President of SDS from 1965-66, he was a passionate American radical and one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Carl Oglesby, Deaths, Mike Davis, New Left, Peace Activists, SDS, Sixties
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