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Save the News: Stand with arrested journalists 0

Save the News: Stand with arrested journalists

Stand with arrested journalists So far more than 50 journalists, including eight last week, have been arrested in the U.S. while covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. Last Wednesday a documentary filmmaker was arrested...

Ayn Rand versus Jesus 0

Ayn Rand versus Jesus

Source unknown Ayn Rand (conservative hero): “I am against God. I don’t approve of religion. It is a sign of a psychological weakness …. I regard it as evil.” Jesus Christ: “It is easier...

I know some people with no feelings and no conscience 0

I know some people with no feelings and no conscience

They have no qualms about doing nasty things such as polluting air and water and not paying their fair share in taxes. They’re called corporations, conservatives, and Koch brothers. And if, as right-to-lifers claim,...

Great indictment of "Private Inequity" firms 0

Great indictment of "Private Inequity" firms

See this concise exposé of private-equity funds in the New Yorker:  Private Inequity. As a result, private-equity firms are increasingly able to profit even if the companies they run go under—an outcome made much...

Ryan Lizza on the Obama Memos, in the New Yorker 0

Ryan Lizza on the Obama Memos, in the New Yorker

The January 30th New Yorker has an article by  Ryan Lizza on the “Obama Memos.”  It tells that depressing story of how President Obama really believed that he could unite the country and rise...