Month: August 2010

Something’s Gotta Change

Sometimes I worry that my readers will get a kind of whiplash as I alternate between alarmist and optimistic messages. The truth is, though, that I am both alarmed and optimistic. As I’ve said, I think we have the better...

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Citizens Against Taxing Big Oil

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – (attributed to) Abraham Lincoln One evening I was watching the news minding...

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Restoring Honor

Anyone remember the opening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech? “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree...

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Know Thy Enemy

Hey, Matt Taibbi seems to have finally wised up about the biggest threat facing our country, which isn’t, by the way, that we’ve suddenly become ruled by a bunch of powerful corporate interests. I’m beginning...

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