AltWeeklies Wire
Shoot The Messagenew
The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords brought about another finger storm of thunderpoints in the media, each one blaming the other for the rhetoric that seems to be turning our nation into a tinderbox.
Dig Boston |
Media Farm |
01-20-2011 |
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Tags: Gabrielle Giffords
The Iraq War: Five Years Too Longnew
As a veteran, an American and a human being, it's my responsibility to ask why people are dying for a government that has repeatedly lied. We all share this responsibility.
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Liam Madden |
03-20-2008 |
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Dems Call for Torture Tapes Investigation: Should I Care?new
We've got several high-profile cases of outright contempt in those investigations already, with no substantive response by the Democratic-led committees in question, which would seem to call into question their actual commitment to such things.
Dig Boston |
Hunter |
12-13-2007 |
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Protofascism with Bright, Patriotic Logosnew
It's long past time for people to stop treating Fox-style, Malkin-style, Limbaugh-style conservatism as merely a "political" phenomenon -- as of this millennium, it's nothing but a hate movement with neckties.
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Hunter |
10-17-2007 |
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We Are All Mercenariesnew
Blackwater is not the problem, it is a symptom: A symptom of a rush to war on the cheap and without proper planning, and a symptom of our bias toward privatization combined with a failure to establish clear rules for just who these private contractors are accountable to.
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Baratunde Thurston |
09-27-2007 |
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Tags: war in iraq, Blackwater
Campaign 2008: Of Fetuses and Fearmongeringnew
My conclusions: The Republicans are still wrong, the Democrats are still scared, and Rudy Giuliani is still an asshole.
Dig Boston |
Baratunde Thurston |
06-21-2007 |
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Our Doomed Countrynew
If you think of the American people as Ireland Baldwin, and America's divorced parents as Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, it appears that the only real solution for 2008 is for the courts to grant the custody of all American citizens to a nice foster country, like maybe Finland.
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Cintra Wilson |
05-02-2007 |
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On Barack Obama and Blacknessnew
Black voters haven't quite joined Obama for President because, more than anyone else, they know America can't handle a black president.
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Baratunde Thurston |
03-14-2007 |
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Dear Lisanew
One man's terrifying ordeal hunting with, and being hunted by, Dick Cheney.
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Seth Reiss |
02-16-2006 |
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Backsliding USAnew
When are we finally going to learn to learn from history? Certainly not while "G. Dubya" -- or those funny monkey drawings of him -- are still around.
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J. Bennett |
12-08-2005 |
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Soapbox: Bash This!new
Wondering how to succeed in national politics? Just make fun of the liberals in Massachusetts.
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Sarah Green |
08-10-2005 |
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What's So Wrong About Lynching?new
Need the latest proof that politicians have gone off the deep end? Last week 16 senators chose not to support a resolution apologizing for years of the Senate's obstructing any and all attempts to pass national anti-lynching legislation.
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Seth McM. Donlin |
06-22-2005 |
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