Year: 2007

What’s Wrong With a Diaspora, Anyway?

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Sound writing questions why federal tax dollars should be spent to rebuild New Orleans, given the economics of the matter and the fact that all the spending still won't eliminate the city's unusually high vulnerability to destruction by storm. In ...
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Reduced to Tears by Socialized Medicine

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Daniel Macintyre says: I've personally known grown men and women reduced to tears when facing the prospect of taking a sick or injured child to a military hospital......That is, of course, because socialized medicine, far from offering everyone the same ...
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Under Law of the Sea Treaty, Burmese Junta Has Purse String Powers

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David Ridenour takes another look at the Law of the Sea Treaty, and still doesn’t like what he sees: Brutal assaults on pro-democracy demonstrators, the arrest of 700 Buddhist monks, the complete obliteration of at least 18 villages, the dragging ...
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Under Law of the Sea Treaty, Burmese Junta Has Purse String Powers

David Ridenour takes another look at the Law of the Sea Treaty, and still doesn’t like what he sees: Brutal assaults on pro-democracy demonstrators, the arrest of 700 Buddhist monks, the complete obliteration of at least 18 villages, the dragging ...
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If You Approve of Dragging Pro-Democracy Demonstrators from their Beds at Night, You’ll Love the Law of the Sea Treaty

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Washington, D.C. - Just as the Bush Administration has stepped up its human rights pressure on the Burmese ruling junta in light of that regime's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, it is simultaneously taking a substantial step to increase the ...
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It’s Socialized Medicine, All Right, And We Don’t Want It

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A blogger called knobboy has criticized the National Center's paper, "SCHIP Expansion: Socialized Medicine on the Installment Plan," by citing this New York Times (by Philip M. Boffey, via Firedoglake) complaint: No one has the nerve to brand this country’s ...
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Is Congress “Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” by John Meredith

Project 21 Commentary /
There's a new TV show in the fall network lineup that says a lot about where our culture is these days:  "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"   Agreeing to be a contestant on this latest must-see TV will ...
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Congressional Black Caucus Shortchanging Poor and Minority Energy Consumers, by Roy Innis

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A recent Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference featured an "energy braintrust" that promised a lively three-hour discussion by oil company, association, government agency and university executives to "transform dialogue into action" and "bolster the relationships between the energy industry and ...
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An Open Letter to Bill Cosby On Clarence Thomas, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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An Open Letter to Bill Cosby On Clarence Thomas by Darryn "Dutch" Martin (bio) Dear Dr. Cosby: I've always been a huge fan of your work as an entertainer, philanthropist, family man and example of what can be accomplished with ...
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Why Migrate South? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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  Why Migrate South? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. (bio) Beginning with the end of the Civil War, huge numbers of newly-freed black Americans moved from the rural South to metropolitan areas - especially in northern states - in what is ...
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