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Are Corporations Patriotic – Or Just Greedy? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are corporations patriotic? It’s an intriguing question. It seems to be the Republican point of view that it is patriotic to support … Continue reading
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Idiots and Blinders By Nancy Miller Saunders / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are the developers of our intelligence operations idiot savants, brilliant in some areas and totally oblivious in others? (Think Dustin Hoffman in The Rain Man.) … Continue reading
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Are Corporations Patriotic – Or Just Greedy? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / September 6, 2011 Are corporations patriotic? It’s an intriguing question. It seems to be the Republican point of view that it is patriotic to support … Continue reading
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Mike Lofgren : Why I Left the GOP Cult
Image from Gunaxin.Goodbye to all that:Reflections of a GOP operative Who left the cult By Mike Lofgren / Truthout / September 5, 2011 Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah — only you’re a little more rotten.” — Double … Continue reading
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The Help, the blockbuster movie about the relationship between a young white woman and her black maids in 1963 Mississippi, has stirred up a bit of controversy, with some calling it “clichéd” and “condescending.” But writer Casey Hayden, who was … Continue reading
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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule (section 2) The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 years under Mexican rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 24, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading
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We hear a lot today about free trade and free enterprise, which, according to The Rag Blog’s Ted McLaughlin, are today’s code words for unregulated capitalism. “In a capitalist society such as ours the wealth will be redistributed to the … Continue reading
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Michael Winship : Rick Perry’s Texas Tall Tales
Pecos Perry? Art from vintage childrens book via saltycotton / Flickr. ‘Emperor in a fig leaf’: Rick Perry’s tall tales of Texas By Michael Winship / Truthout / August 28, 2011 Although born and raised in a small town in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Michael Winship, Republican Primary, Rick Perry, Texas Economy, Texas Politics
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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule (section 1) The hidden history of Texas Part 3: The 1827-1836 Years Under Mexican Rule By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / August 16, 2011 [This is the … Continue reading
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The Rag Blog Presents : Carl Davidson on Mondragon and Workers’ Cooperatives
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE The Rag Blog, Rag Radio, and the New Journalism ProjectPresent Noted Writer and Political Activist Carl Davidson:‘Mondragon and the Workers’ Cooperative Movement’A Multi-Media Presentation Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, 7-10 p.m.At 5604 Manor Community Center,5604 Manor … Continue reading
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In case you missed them. These pictures of Rick Perry as an Aggie cadet and as a Texas A&M student, decked out in lettered cardigan (with Reveille at his feet), are absolutely priceless.
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Sarito Carol Neiman provides some valuable perspective on Rick Perry and his “Texas Miracle.” One gem: a New York Times columnist in 2003 reported that one manufacturer — notorious for its Dickensian record on workers safety — said they’d only … Continue reading
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