Posted on 31 May 2007
With characteristic deviousness, Lou Dobbs today refuted the claims in this New York Time article: Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs, which is a lot like the one I wrote a few days ago, minus the “venom.”
Mr. Leonhardt (article author) and I are saying the exact same thing, the only difference being that I am using [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2007
Rap Artist Kanye West had this to say: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” — Said during a Hurricane Katrina telethon.
After the Katrina disaster many polls indicated that large majorities of blacks believed that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina would have been considerably speedier had those trapped in New Orleans been rich [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2007
Background: The separation of church and state is an important legal and political principle derived from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . .” The phrase separation of church and state was introduced [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2007
In last nights(05-29-2007) CNNs “The Situation Room” broadcast, the tobacco chewing anti-immigrant bigot, Lou Dobbs, admitted to smuggling into the United States, box-loads of Cuban Cohiba cigars, at one time when on assignment in Cuba.
The initial “rush” transcript does not contain the exchange between anchor Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs. Hopefully, they will include the [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2007
Berlin, 1989
We are in the twenty first century, I keep telling myself.
Still, the excitement that flows out of somefolks is sometimes startling.
“Now, you’re too hard on them,” I think. Then I reconsider the madness of Western so called civilization. What liberation in ‘45? Dublin, Ireland, Frankfurt, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium haven’t stopped since then as [...]
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