Two stories on the front page of today’s, NY Times illustrate eloquently how false impressions can drive a narrative. One story comes out of the American west where mounted horsemen wearing chaps and cowboy hats backed by armed militia members
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This week gave us a real good view of what the war on terror looks like and how well our bloated Homeland Security forces function when they are confronted by other then unarmed kids with posters. This is the
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With all the noise about the Ukraine, the Korean ferry and a mysteriously disappeared airplane, the media is finding it damned hard to find space for insignificant stuff like people out of work or working for too low wages,
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Can we end this stupid fight? For five years the GOP refused to admit the need for affordable, universal health care, some because they were too dumb to understand its necessity, some because they were too callous to admit the
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John Hayward, who bills himself as “Powerful Conservative Voice” on his rightwing blog Human Events has taken off on the ACA with a blistering attack, filled with Conservative fact and numbers. Mr. Hayward, who is the print version of Rush
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The Ukrainian thing is an awful mess. There is really nothing effective that we can do about it and there probably shouldn’t be, we have no dog in this fight, but that never stopped a member of the GOP from
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The standoff between Russia and the rest of the world over Crimea and the Ukraine isn’t gung anywhere. The Republicans in this country who are using it to attack Obama are no better than Putin. The reality is that there are
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A very important and probably for the first time, significant discussion broke out on This Week… It was truly stimulating because for the first time in memory some real strategic, as opposed to political, questions were asked and although few were answered,
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In a world with everything going crazy, with the Russians invading Ukraine, the Iranians making believe that they can actually build an atomic bomb, the Israeli’s pretending that they want to treat the Palestinians as equals and the President of Afghanistan
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I read two stories today, neither of which are new, both of which made me think of the insanity of the whole energy/environment conflict in this country. The first story had to do with ten thousand gallons of crude oil
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