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31 July 2009

A new twist on the Obama birth conspiracy theory

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It's bad enough that some right-wing crackpots still refuse to accept the validity of Barack Obama's publicly released birth certifi...
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30 July 2009

Glenn Beck says Obama hates white people (like his mother?)

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I didn't want to dignify this nonsense with a commentary. But I can't help myself, because it's just so absurd. Earlier this we...
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29 July 2009

Sotomayor, racism, and the future of the GOP

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Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to endorse Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. She is expected to be confirmed by t...
28 July 2009

Lou Dobbs undermines CNN's credibility

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With Fox News tilted firmly to the right and MSNBC leaning more and more to the left, CNN is commonly regarded as the more moderate, more ba...
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27 July 2009

What if Professor Gates were white?

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Based on the limited, media-filtered information that I have about the recent case in which an African-American Harvard professor was arres...
26 July 2009

What job will Sarah quit next?

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Today, Alaskans rejoice as Sarah Palin serves her last and final day as governor of our northernmost state. Not showing a lot of staying po...
25 July 2009

Maddow vs. ... Behar?

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For so long, talk radio and cable news were dominated by the right wing. Finally, in 2004, Air America Radio brought a progressive voice to...
24 July 2009

Christian right wants to mislead Texas schoolchildren

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Oh, what fools we Americans must seem to our European cousins! From the British newspaper The Guardian : "The Christian right is making...
23 July 2009

GOP priorities: War over wellbeing

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Now, after all these years of throwing billions of dollars at George W. Bush's unnecessary war of aggression in Iraq, the Republicans a...
22 July 2009

Grim milestone reached yesterday: 1,000th execution by lethal injection in U.S.

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Yesterday in Ohio, Marvallous Keene became the 1,000th person executed by lethal injection in the U.S. Let's hope that we will never se...
21 July 2009

Israeli soldiers describe sanctioned abuses in Gaza (and am I anti-Semitic for saying so?)

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One of the reasons why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues is because each side blames the other, and each side refuses to admit to a...
20 July 2009

Possibly tomorrow: 1,000th execution in U.S. by lethal injection

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Tomorrow, July 21, we may see the 1,000th execution in the U.S. by lethal injection, as Ohio is scheduled to kill Marvallouse Keene. If that...
19 July 2009

Six ways to prevent wrongful convictions

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Time and time again in the criminal "justice" system, eyewitness testimony has proven unreliable. In fact, according to the Innoc...
18 July 2009

Walter Cronkite, RIP

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The world of journalism, and the world at large, suffered a great loss last night with the death of legendary newsman Walter Cronkite. He ...
17 July 2009

Musicians ask Obama to ban music torture

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A few years ago, British attorney Clive Stafford Smith spoke at an Amnesty International conference that I attended. Smith represents some ...
16 July 2009

Only a "meltdown"

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The big show in Washington this week has been the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. In my opinion, Judge Soto...
15 July 2009

Philadelphia's latest shame

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Can Philadelphia still claim the nickname "City of Brotherly Love"? That might seem questionable after last week's swimming p...
14 July 2009

Government run insurance: Good enough for Washington elite, but too socialist for us?

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Yesterday, Dr. Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, had outpatient surgery at Thomas Jefferson Hospital here in Philly to rel...
13 July 2009

Do your job, Mr. Holder

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The Associated Press reported yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder is thinking about maybe appointing a special prosecutor to invest...
12 July 2009

More fun with Honduran warlords

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In a recent column , I condemned the military coup that has overthrown the democratically elected government of Honduras and sent President ...
11 July 2009

Society, politics, and the overpopulation problem

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I am writing this on July 11 -- World Population Day . And I am reflecting on the fact that the world's population continues to grow ye...
10 July 2009

Me vs. Yoo in the Philly Inquirer

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When the news broke that the Philadelphia Inquirer had awarded a monthly column to torture memo author John Yoo, I vowed that I would chall...
09 July 2009

Suicide by governor

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You may have heard of " suicide by cop ". Well now, here in Pennsylvania, it appears we have a case of "suicide by governor...
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08 July 2009

Will Sarah Palin ever be satisfied?

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"How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?" the old song would ask. Today's version might inqu...
07 July 2009

A greater consequence of "don't ask, don't tell"

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So what has been the cost of Bill Clinton's misguided "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy on gays in the military? I...
06 July 2009

Glorifying gluttony on the 4th of July

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I was just reading about the annual hot dog eating contest held on July 4th each year at Coney Island, New York. This year's "winn...
05 July 2009

Progressive disillusionment and the election of 2012

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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's recent resignation announcement has sparked a lot of speculation about the 2012 election. Does Palin have...
04 July 2009

July 4th and the pursuit of happiness

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Today is July 4th -- Independence Day in the USA. On this date in 1776, the Second Continental Congress met here in Philadelphia and approv...
03 July 2009

Heaven help our captured soldier

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Apparently a U.S. soldier has been captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Heaven help him. My heart goes out to the captured soldier and h...
02 July 2009

USA's role in the Honduran coup -- and how we must fix it

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"The U.S. Army School of the Americas ... is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world....