Issue: 344
October 1, 2009
Commentary
When School Kids Sing Obama’s Praises – The Substance of Truth
Columnist
They went to school expecting to learn the wonders of the world and acquire the academic skills requisite for a successful career; instead, they were “indoctrinated” into the Cult of Obama, brainwashed into praising the politics of Hitler’s reincarnation. These are the howling cries of a few New Jersey elementary school parents whose children were…
They went to school expecting to learn the wonders of the world and acquire the academic skills requisite for a successful career; instead, they were “indoctrinated”…
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Commentary
A Second Bill of Rights – Let’s Try Democracy
Guest Commentator
This is the second of three excerpts from Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press) by David Swanson published here by the kind permission of the publisher. In places where we are not already protected, or where we have been shown to be vulnerable over the last eight…
This is the second of three excerpts from Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press) by David Swanson published…
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Commentary
Worker Solidarity: We Don’t Need to Know Their Names
Columnist
In a move that’s in the finest tradition of worker solidarity, some 900 members of Unite Here Local 1 demonstrated last week outside Chicago’s Park Hyatt Hotel in support of 98 workers who were fired recently from three Boston-area Hyatt Hotels so they could be replaced by lower-wage workers. There were some 200 arrests of…
In a move that’s in the finest tradition of worker solidarity, some 900 members of Unite Here Local 1 demonstrated last week outside Chicago’s Park Hyatt…
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Commentary
What If Your Child Is Gay? – Black Married Momma: The Anti-Statistic
Columnist
This week, The New York Times Magazine is running a story titled “Coming Out in Middle School.” It’s about exactly what it sounds like – kids in their pre-teens and early teens “coming out,” or declaring their non-heterosexual sexual orientation, to parents, friends, relatives, teachers and others. It’s about removing the ambiguity that may surround…
This week, The New York Times Magazine is running a story titled “Coming Out in Middle School.” It’s about exactly what it sounds like – kids…
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Commentary
Street Report from the G20 – Justice Watch
Columnist
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights. For days, downtown Pittsburgh, home…
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become. What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did. Out of…
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Commentary
Community Compromise Sown By Revenge
Columnist
Very few of us were surprised to read a recent Los Angeles Times article in how Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks put the FBI on County Supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, the person that defeated (and demoralized) him the same night America elected its first black President. Ridley-Thomas’ landslide was bigger than Obama’s. Some say it…
Very few of us were surprised to read a recent Los Angeles Times article in how Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks put the FBI on…
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