1. Foreign Entanglements 3 hours ago permalinkTake a look at Bob Herberts column in todays New York Times . Unless Im missing something, Id say the liberals in this country have been screwed again. If others feel as I do, then Obama will be a one termer even if he gets some watered-down health care thing through. I just cannot see folks like me (and the hundreds of others who ...
2. 100 Miles of Mirrors 7 hours ago permalinkAs world leaders and delegations prepare to meet in Copenhagen for the two-week UN Climate Change conference beginning Monday, it's worth asking two basic questions: How bad is global warming? And is the world on track to fix it? To answer the first question: it's more than just bad. It's bleak. According to James Hansen, NASA's top climate ... 3. INSIDE CUBA: Voices From the Island 7 hours ago permalinkWhen my family escaped from Cuba in 1963--on a boat in the middle of the night--we thought the Cuban Revolution wouldn't last. Soon, we believed, we'd be back home, in Cuba--brief sojourns in the U.S. having been practically a ritual for dissenting Cubans after any change in government. My family wasn't rich--we owned nothing--but we wanted to go ... 4. From the Tabloids to the Ballot 21 hours ago permalinkIn my piece about Randall Terry’s Tea Party-driven comeback, I broke the news that Terry’s activists were going to mount congressional campaigns in 2010 for the express purpose of putting anti-abortion rights TV ads on the air inside the beltway. Along those same lines, the persistent Obama conspiracy figure Larry Sinclair — a ...
5. Empathy, Not Apathy 1 day ago permalinkDear Students, Where have we--your elders-failed? Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the Columbia University uprisings. The students had many grievances, including the university's attempt to build a private gym in a public park and its involvement in the war in Vietnam, as well as the war itself and the unpopular draft. This year marks the ... |
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