Author: TerranceDC

America’s Mountaintop Moment

“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would...

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The “I Got It Made” Smile

Todd Gitlin over at TPM Cafe has an interesting post up about Bernie Madoff’s smile. Take a look at the NYT photo of Bernard Madoff arriving at court to hear a Federal judge uphold a lower-court decision that he may stay...

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Prosecute Them, I

Ed. Note: Trigger warning: Video after the jump includes images and descriptions of violence and torture. Ed. Note: This is part of a series of videos I got an idea for over the holidays, and spent that time putting together...

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Who Needs Pardon?

[Ed Note: Graphic NSFW images below the fold.] As I write this, I’m watching president George W. Bush grant pardon to Stars and Stripes in 2003, on a television show about turkey. At the same time, I’m reading about...

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Up With Downward Mobility

Every once in a while, an idea gels in my head and I dismiss it, thinking to myself “Nah. I gotta be missing something. It can’t be that. And then I hear someone who probably knows a lot more than I do about the...

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