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Christianity: Happy, Happy Hypocrisy to Live By
Christians Largely Mum on TortureBy Ray McGovern / July 31, 2009 Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Existential Angst, Fascism, Public Morality, Torture
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Barack, Health Insurance, and Your Best Interests
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren’t Fighting For Health Care For EverybodyBy Bruce A. Dixon / July 29, 2009 With the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around health care reform, it time for … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Obama Administration
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The ‘Double Consciousness’ of Race
Graphic: Blair Kelly.Meet the New Elite, Not Like the OldBy Helene Cooper / July 25, 2009 WASHINGTON — They are the children of 1969 — the year that America’s most prestigious universities began aggressively recruiting blacks and Latinos to their … Continue reading
US Military: A Little Too Big for Its Britches
National Guard (murderers) at Kent State in May 1970.The Military Is Not the PoliceJuly 29, 2009 It was disturbing to learn the other day just how close the last administration came to violating laws barring the military from engaging in … Continue reading
Didier Mainguy: Letter to The Rag
From Freakence Sixties:A Letter to The Rag By Didier Mainguy / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2009 It’s difficult to express some feelings and concepts in a foreign language. When writing in English, I’m feeling like an idiot. (I … Continue reading
Another Terrorist Attack May Put the Military in Charge
The Joint Chiefs of Staff photographed in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gold Room, more commonly known as The Tank, in the Pentagon on December 14, 2001. DoD photo by Mamie Burke.Power Shifts in Plan for Capital CalamityBy Eric Lichtblau … Continue reading
The Navajo Nation and Uranium Mining: Not a Happy Combination
Fred and Clara Slowman near their newly rebuilt home near Teec Nos Pos, Ariz. Many homes were contaminated with uranium. Photo: Kevin Moloney for The New York Times.Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo CountryBy Dan Frosch / July 26, 2009 TEEC NOS … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental Protection Agency, Indigenous People, Nuclear Contamination, U.S. Government
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Texas ‘Experts’ : Axe Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall from Textbooks
‘Experts’ hired by Texas State Board of Education:Chavez and Marshall don’t belong in school books Evangelical minister Peter Marshall said, ‘To have Cesar Chavez listed next to Ben Franklin is ludicrous.’ [Chavez] is not a role model who ‘ought to … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Censorship, Civil Rights, Education, Evangelical Christians, Religious Right, Social Conservatives, Texas
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Revising History in Texas : Christ in the Classroom
Cartoon from San Francisco Sentinel. Last week, Stephen Colbert tipped his ironic hat to the Texas State Board of Education. The board had already allowed creationism to be considered in Texas biology classes, the comedian said approvingly, and now it … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Right, Civil Liberties, Education, Religious Right, Texas
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Baghdad Embassy Too Big for Reduced American Mission in Iraq – Duhhhh!!
And how many other King George projects will prove to be just a bit oversized for reality? We won’t be hearing the last of this sort of thing for awhile, me thinks. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Report: Big … Continue reading
