Tag: america
member name: Jesse BC
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May 29, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
There's always a tiny window in my day that I see from the back porch. My back porch faces northwest, over miles of cattle pasture and sagebrush and giant rolls of hay. From my back porch, the sky . . . more
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November 13, 2007 10:19 PM EST --
I enjoy Independence Day because it always involves the Three B's -- barbecue, beer, and bug spray. But it's hard to be politically radical on the Fourth of July, when fireworks are toxic to the . . . more
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March 15, 2008 03:52 AM EDT --
On November 9, 1987, I became a Christian. That is to say, in the parlance of the Evangelical subculture to which I was committing myself, I "asked Jesus into my heart and became born again." . . . more
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March 19, 2007 04:59 AM EDT --
Holding a doctorate in biology, Barbara Ehrenreich must surely know the value of a failed experiment. Even those in which the most basic conditions go awry can still yield valuable information. . . . more
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April 23, 2008 12:41 AM EDT --
Twenty years after Xanadu tanked at the box office in 1980, producer/director Robert Greenwald made a name for himself shooting agitprop documentaries of the left-wing variety. In 2004 alone, . . . more
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July 06, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Why didn't you just cooperate with the police?
A lot of people have asked me that in the last 36 hours -- officers, friends, other demonstrators, even the attorney who prosecuted me and asked . . . more
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May 24, 2008 06:54 PM EDT --
Perhaps the first thing Emily Bazelon forgot in her January 25, 2006, Slate article, " Hitting Bottom ," is that, when your subtitle reads, "Why America should outlaw spanking," . . . more
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August 31, 2008 09:30 PM EDT --
When I opened the door, Maria was standing on the porch. At first, I didn't recognize her, but there was a silent pleading in her eyes, begging for recognition. I remembered that.
I racked my . . . more
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May 10, 2008 08:59 AM EDT --
On November 19, 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was signed into law, representing one of the most sweeping changes in child welfare policy since the advent of mandatory reporting in 1960, . . . more
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February 22, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
My best picks for 2007
11) Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race from Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree (HarperCollins, 2007)
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary . . . more
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September 11, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
At 7:30 on a Friday night, I hitched a ride to the New York demonstrations with one radical intellectual, one anarchist street punk, and one German reporter from a local commune.
By the time we . . . more
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February 27, 2008 02:47 AM EST --
Much effort has been sustained by the Bush administration in the last six years to connect the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein in the American public mind. Using the commonalities of Islam and hatred . . . more
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December 02, 2007 11:24 PM EST --
When I rise up
Let me rise up joyful
Like a bird.
When I fall
Let me fall without regret
Like a leaf.
-- Wendell Berry
There is a country within a country. It is cordoned off by . . . more
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December 13, 2007 01:45 PM EST --
Here’s a quick quiz: Who spoke the following words? “The road to safety begins by ending aggression.”
Ghandi?
Abraham Lincoln?
Martin Luther King?
Try Osama bin Laden on November 12, . . . more
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March 20, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority . . . more
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