AltWeeklies Wire
Torn From Today’s Headlinesnew
Hoyt Hilsman, a well-known screenwriter and most recently a Democratic candidate against Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, has written his first novel, "Nineteen Angels," snatched right from today's headlines.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-28-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Hoyt Hilsman, David Dreier
The Mad Hatter's Tea Partynew
There is a simple underlying fact that seems to be missing in all of this talk about deficit spending––something that you can check out for yourselves without having to take my word for it––the federal budget has only been in balance or had a surplus 24 of the last 110 years.
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James Preston Allen |
02-25-2011 |
Commentary
Democracy On the Vergenew
I applaud the uprising in Cairo at Tahrir Square and wish them a swift victory over all those who oppose the aspirations of democracy both at home and abroad. May their spirit inspire a whole generation, if not the whole world.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
02-11-2011 |
Commentary
Despairnew
I was talking to a friend about the increasing despair I had been feeling since Boryana left me. I said I was afraid it was starting to morph into a black hole that would all but consume me. “Maybe it’s not just her,” Lee said. “Maybe it’s all the bad news that’s going on,” he said.
Boek said that we had had a shadow government for decades now. “The politicians are just the fronts for them,” he said. “Obama has to know that, even if he tries to get as much for the workingman as possible.”
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-20-2010 |
Commentary
The Tea Party Was Foretold by Sinclair Lewis' Classic, "It Can't Happen Here"new
As the Tea Party has forced a new low in American politics, making the threat of fascism the most real it has been in decades, I am reminded of a novel Sinclair Lewis wrote about eight decades ago called "It Can't Happen Here."
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-10-2010 |
Commentary
Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam?new
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. Can President Obama buck the trend?
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
08-11-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Stanley McChrystal, Rachel Maddow
Who Was The Real Hero of The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times?new
The bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 -- whose centennial is in October -- undercut the power of the American labor movement for decades.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
08-09-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Los Angeles Times
Economics of War and Fearnew
In a war economy much of what gets built gets blown up, destroyed, or wasted, as it were, on the unquestionable goal of winning.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
08-09-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan
Undoing the New Deal?new
The dismantling of Social Security and Medicare was Obama's campaign promise nobody heard, and until recently, change was only at a snails pace. That's destined to change with a recent decision by the House of Representatives.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-09-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Social Security
Israel’s Mystic Pullnew
What exactly is a Jew -- and do his first loyalties lie with Israel?
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Lionel Rolfe |
06-25-2010 |
Commentary
Obama Will Likely Be Our Next Lincolnnew
Ultimately I think that Barack Obama will be considered one of the great presidents. He has the intellectual ability to see what the problems are and what might be done about them. That’s a big start, compared to the last president. There’s a problem, however.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-22-2010 |
Commentary
Is Obama Going To Force Leftists To The Center?new
Dean didn’t say this, but I will. Calling someone a Nazi is harsh, yet Republicans nowadays embrace parts of the Nazi ideology, which is a peculiar mixing of racism and phony populism. In hard times like we got, it sometimes works.
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Lionel Rolfe |
01-22-2010 |
Commentary
You Can’t Always Sing & Dance: Karen Kayenew
My friend, Karen Kaye, executive director of Connections for Children in Santa Monica, a non-profit provider of babysitting and other services for single working mothers, is dead.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-28-2009 |
Commentary
A Begrudging Admiration of Las Vegasnew
It’s a strange economic model that has fascinated a number of contemporary American writers, from Hunter Thompson to Marc Cooper. Las Vegas is an obvious morality story all about capitalism, exploitation, human nature, and, of course sin and religion. The town was created by Jewish mafioso, then the Mormons took over for a while, and now others are moving in. Mormons may be the most conservative of all religion, certainly socially, yet Vegas is proud of the fact that your secrets are safe in Sin City. Not being a Mormon, I can’t imagine how they reconcile themselves to their adopted city.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-03-2009 |
Commentary
Wallowing in Pessimismnew
Sometimes I feel as if we are starting to relive the narrative told in the pages of William Shirer's, The Rise and Fall of the The Third Reich.
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Lionel Rolfe |
10-09-2009 |
Commentary
