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February 3, 2014
The Super Bowl of War: Three Decades of Failure in Afghanistan
A Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, that annual celebration of violence as sport, featured a most joyous homecoming for a U.S. veteran of the Afghan War.
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February 4, 2014 Dear President Obama: Tar Sands and Keystone XL Are More Dangerous Than an Iranian Atomic Bomb
January 28, 2014
Who Needs the Gestapo When You Have ‘Angry Birds’?
Somewhere in the lowest reaches of hell, Adolf Hitler and his coterie of lesser dictators must be tormented by the knowledge they did not live long enough to get their hands on “Angry Birds.”
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
January 27, 2014 The Real Irony of Rep. Harman Being Interrupted on NSA Spying by Bieber Bulletin
January 21, 2014
No Place to Hide: We’re All Suspects in Barack Obama’s America
His unbridled defense of the surveillance state opened the door to the new McCarthyism of Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein.
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January 21, 2014 Jon Stewart: ‘These [NSA] Reforms Are Weak, but Don’t Worry, They’ll Never Take Effect’
January 7, 2014
The NSA Plays Mad King George in This Revolution
Like this country’s early revolutionaries, Edward Snowden knows that true patriotism demands a vigilant confrontation with government infamy.
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January 15, 2014 Beyond the Dreamer
December 30, 2013
NSA, Benghazi and the Monsters of Our Own Creation
“We know everything but learn nothing” would be an honest slogan for the NSA, CIA and lesser-known spy agencies that specialize in leading us so dangerously astray.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
December 31, 2013 Taking Over
December 24, 2013
Bill O’Reilly’s War on Jesus
Maybe it is time to put Christ back in Christmas.
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December 24, 2013 Leveling the Playing Field
December 17, 2013
Progressives on the Take
The Podesta brothers are the faces of the so-called progressive wing of the Democratic Party that, like the president himself, will talk a good game of reducing income inequality, while catering to the interests of the very corporations that have initiated the problem.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
December 17, 2013 Rand Paul’s Plan to Save the Cities
December 3, 2013
Welcome Back, Jesus
The pope’s appraisal of modern capitalism is the obvious truth, whether divinely inspired or not.
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December 3, 2013 Wall Street Santa
November 25, 2013
Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize
The deal with Iran is potentially an international game changer comparable to Richard Nixon’s opening to Mao’s Red China and Ronald Reagan’s overtures to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
November 26, 2013 GOP Distraction
November 19, 2013
Be Thankful for the People Struggling to Limit NSA Spying
The president, members of Congress and now even the Supreme Court have all come to the defense of the most invasive espionage program ever. Luckily a few lawmakers say “no.”
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
November 18, 2013 Sisters Asunder
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