Norman Solomon: Only government has the capacity to provide economic remedies for social distress of this magnitude. But government is failing.
Judging the Judges 2010
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Sharon Kyle: Studies have shown that the average voter goes to the polls with little to no information on judicial races.Every election cycle, we are asked to vote for people few of us have heard of for offices that few of us know very much about. Yet these offices carry tremendous power.
My Blue Shield Experience Embodies Our Stupid and Wasteful Health Insurance System
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With a single payer system, one entity would coordinate everything. Eliminating the majority of paper-pushing companies and employees with their cubicle-bred mindsets (forget expertise!) could lead the way for Janet and other competent people to run things.
Passion and Intention as a Basis for Effecting Progressive Social Change
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I might add a third possibility: doing what one is called to do. That is to say: going beyond the narcissism inherent in indulging one’s passions, to accepting one’s destiny.
Ignore At Your Peril
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by Denis Campbell – 11:00, Saturday morning. I’d finished frying an egg, was headed to the office to finish a poker article I was on deadline for. As I walked across the room, my 6-year-old asked me a question. A second later I was standing with arm stiffened hard against the wall, holding my entire [...]
Testaments: Harry S. Truman
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by John Peeler – “Testaments” is a series of poems that take the form of valedictory statements by each of the postwar presidents, in the poetic manner of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. Harry S Truman I was a loyal party man, a proud Vice President. When he was gone, I knew one thing: [...]
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