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BlackCommentator.com Guest Poet, Sherwood Ross, is a Miami-based reporter active in the anti-war effort who has worked for major American newspapers and magazines as well as international wire services. His blog is The Smirking Chimp. Click here to contact Mr. Ross.
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Pray for me, Father, mine is the sin of cowardice For I do not set myself on fire at the White House gate To protest murder. I am a glutton for God’s blue sky. Pray for me, Father, for my tax dollars set a banquet for Death With napalm and daisy cutters and snakelike missiles…
Pray for me, Father, mine is the sin of cowardice For I do not set myself on fire at the White House gate To protest murder.…
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According to the non-profit Sunshine Project of Austin, Texas, some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research tied to germ warfare, have refused to disclose their operations to the public as required by law, a nonprofit watchdog agency says. Despite this, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., the government…
According to the non-profit Sunshine Project of Austin, Texas, some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research tied to germ warfare, have refused…
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State-supported universities in metropolitan areas that charge comparatively modest tuition “are playing an invaluable if unsung role in preparing minorities to enter the legal profession,” a noted legal educator said today. “We need more efforts like theirs because law school tuition at private universities is skyrocketing.” But Dean Lawrence Velvel of the Massachusetts School of…
State-supported universities in metropolitan areas that charge comparatively modest tuition "are playing an invaluable if unsung role in preparing minorities to enter the legal profession," a…
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Columnist George Will has found senator-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) guilty of “careless and absurd assertions,” for writing that the wealth gap between rich and poor is “the least debated issue” in American politics. But if you think, (and I don’t) what Webb said is absurd, how about the assertion the sky will “rain artichokes” before…
Columnist George Will has found senator-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) guilty of “careless and absurd assertions,” for writing that the wealth gap between rich and poor is…
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According to the gospel of Matthew, it came to pass that Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, “Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought against you?” for even in those days of rudimentary justice, a man had the right to hear the charges of his accusers. Yet two thousand years later, under a…
According to the gospel of Matthew, it came to pass that Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, "Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought…
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