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The Symmetry of the African American and Gay Struggles for Civil Rightsnew
More needs to be done to integrate the message of equality into an all-inclusive community engagement strategy.
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Nii-Quartelai Quartey |
05-22-2009 |
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The $100 Billion Curenew
There are constant cries that the sky is falling, such as the state going bankrupt due to an $8 billion budget deficit, or that the City of Angels will go bankrupt without an increase in parking meter rates by three quarters. The penchant for panic is almost reflexive, but panic doesn’t elicit great decisions.
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James Preston Allen |
05-11-2009 |
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Tags: corporate taxes, recession
Who Robbed the Bank?new
Bank robbery isn't quite what it used to be. The average modern-day stickup artist only gets away with paltry $12,000 or less and it's a federal crime to boot. Fifteen to 20 years is a long time to spend in a penitentiary for that kind of money. What's annoying is that the really, really big bank robbers are getting off scot-free.
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James Preston Allen |
04-20-2009 |
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Tags: financial crisis
It's Bill Parker's Time to Walk Off the Stage of Historynew
Los Angeles is debating whether its new police administration building in downtown should bear the name of William Parker, the police chief from the '50s whose name has adorned the old building at 150 N. Los Angeles St. for more than half a century.
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Lionel Rolfe |
04-17-2009 |
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Will All Newspapers Die?new
There has been a great deal of hand-wringing lately over the state of our nation's newspapers, with the forecast that "print journalism is dead." The reality is that the decline of mainstream newspapers was foretold a long time ago.
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James Preston Allen |
04-04-2009 |
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Tags: newspaper industry, recession
International Rights Forum Addresses Free Speechnew
The ability to articulate how a society should be ordered, in response to such world-changing struggles, rests not just on the struggles themselves, but also on the public's access to the literary, and visual forms, as vehicles for addressing and digesting such transformative events.
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Slobodan Dimitrov |
03-21-2009 |
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Crisis, Corruptions and Incompetencenew
No matter which way government tries to solve its budget deficit spending these days, they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
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James Preston Allen |
03-21-2009 |
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I Am the Fat Man on the Leftnew
Although he disgusted me so much I took it upon myself to stake a claim to being the Fat Man on the Left, I felt a strange kinship with Rush Limbaugh. The kinship was based on both of us being too fat. I was and remain easily as hefty as Limbaugh was and is becoming so again.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-07-2009 |
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Why Are Republicans So Damn Republican?new
Now that three renegade Republican senators have forced Obama to sign a stimulus bill that is woefully inadequate for the job it is supposed to do, I have been puzzling the oddness of people who are Republicans.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-21-2009 |
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Obama the Magic Christiannew
In the movie The Magic Christian, you might remember how people dove into a cesspool after the dirty dollars that were thrown there. People were willing to cover themselves in excrement just for the sake of the almighty dollar. Now that the dollar is not so almighty anymore, perhaps there's a better way to be a Magic Christian.
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Lionel Rolfe |
01-16-2009 |
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Presidents & Near-Presidents I Have Knownnew
With Barack Obama's Jan. 20 presidential inauguration practically upon us, my thoughts have turned to the very complex subject of American presidents. As I contemplated the subject, I had an odd revelation. It happens that I have spent a not inconsiderable amount of time around presidents, vice presidents and presidential candidates.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-04-2008 |
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A WPA Kind of Solutionnew
Waking up from this nightmare to hear President-elect Obama mention a "WPA solution" or that he's been reading about the FDR transition from Hoover is the sign of intelligent life returning to the Oval Office.
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James Preston Allen |
11-28-2008 |
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American Memoriesnew
The political divide of red states versus blue -- a division coinciding with the separation of North and South with the exceptions of Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia -- has me thinking.
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James Preston Allen |
11-14-2008 |
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Not Swayed By Fearnew
This election promises to be one of those "bell weather" events that happen once in a generation, shifting the entire political psychology. It will be what Thomas Jefferson prophesied that every twenty years a democracy needs to have a revolution -- preferably without blood shed–ballots not bullets.
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James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
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Mudslinging Socialismnew
Obama has also been slandered with the "socialist" moniker for wanting to reform national health care, fund education and reinvest in our nation's infrastructure -- all very socialist ideas according to McPalin.
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James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
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