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This is the last day of Black History Month, and, contrary to a recent SNL joke, it’s not a month to suffer through. It’s actually something we need to keep fighting to protect and expand. President Obama not only won two historic elections, but he...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 07:22 AM PST
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Impermanence. We float in it. We are constantly bathing in it. Everything rises and then falls. In the poetic zen metaphor, we are “streams branching in the darkness.” When the Dalai Lama was asked to summarize Buddhism in a few words, he replied,...
by bisleybum
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 06:19 PM PST
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We don’t think too well of Andrew Carnegie, here in the Monongahela Valley. But we say his name a lot. Carnegie was a lousy boss. Workers in his steel mills sometimes put in 24 hour shifts. When they struck he got his partner, Henry Clay Frick, who is...
by MeJean
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on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 02:47 PM PDT
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The right-wing majority of the U.S Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, ending decades of expanded access to higher education for students of color. But elite universities legally can and will continue to offer...
by Paul Hogarth
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 07:34 AM PDT
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I’m a member of the Harvard Class of 1967 and, with my having entered in 1963, “Fair Harvard” has been a part of my world therefore for sixty years. In the wake of the Supreme Court having struck down Harvard’s use of race in its admissions decisions,...
by AndySchmookler
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 07:19 AM PDT
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I’m a lifelong Democrat and I’ve been voting since Jimmy Carter. I'm sick and tired of being bitterly disappointed by every Democratic President I’ve ever voted for. (Republican Presidents are, of course, far worse. I’ve never voted Republican. Every...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 10:42 PM PDT
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I remember Jimmy Carter's first and very positive presidential campaign like it was yesterday. His goodness and genuineness�is an�inspiration to us all!
Jimmy�Carter is�my most favorite President ...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Sat Feb 18, 2023 at 10:01 PM PST
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Last week we took a look at the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson as an architect rather than as a statesman or politician and we received some rather pointed but thoughtful responses to Jefferson’s legacy. Jefferson was complex, no doubt. In...
by tsm63
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on Mon Oct 31, 2022 at 03:40 PM PDT
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Explaining the Title: You see Lewis H. Latimer carbonized the lightbulb, which gave us indoor lighting and the 2 Cities of Light: Las Vegas and Paris. By being the sole inventor of indoor lighting, this allowed everyone working in Science and...
by Kaizar
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 11:58 AM PST
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If you enjoyed Avatar back in 2K9 or Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over or Mission Impossible or James Bond or The Great Gatsby or Hugo (Martin Scorsese) or Terminator or Titanic (1996) or Top Gun or Jurassic Park/World or Harry Potter or Hobbit movies or Planet...
by Kaizar
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on Fri Feb 04, 2022 at 12:06 PM PST
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Its become a veritable article of faith that the Dem’s hair-thin majorities in the House and Senate mean we have to cater to the (often-insanely-counterproductive) whims of our problematic “moderates”. I will agree a fair amount of strategic haggling...
by merchantbard
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on Thu Sep 23, 2021 at 05:53 AM PDT
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Robert Reich has a must-read opinion piece at The Guardian. Here’s how it starts: Most of the 74,222,957 Americans who voted to re-elect Donald Trump – 46.8%of the votes cast in the 2020 presidential election – don’t hold Trump accountable...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 10:27 AM PST
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The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a fierce and revolutionary advocate for gender equality and reproductive rights, has left behind a complex legacy in the American judicial system. No stranger to sexism herself, in 1972 Ginsburg became the...
by Carolyn Copeland
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on Fri Sep 25, 2020 at 11:17 AM PDT
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It’s alright to be White It’s alright to be White, and proud to be born free, though a history of Racism and hate creates disparity, disunity, partiality. Don’t perpetuate the hate, don’t deny the lie, of discrimination, denigration, and segregation;...
by Brim4peace
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on Fri Jun 19, 2020 at 05:53 AM PDT
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It is no secret that in 2016, through the primaries, I found a lot to like about Senator Bernie Sanders. His end goals were far more in line with mine, his advocacy and presentation as well. I respected the campaign and was glad to work on behalf of...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Mar 22, 2020 at 07:07 AM PDT
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One recent morning while substitute teaching at a brand new high school in a PE class, I got whacked hard in the head, almost got knocked out, went to the ER, and was told I had a concussion. More ...
by jtg
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on Mon Feb 10, 2020 at 08:03 AM PST
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Why did Trump have Soleimani assassinated? Trump’s grand strategy? No. A compelling offensive action to keep us safe? No. A considered decision that he weighed carefully with other options? Hardly. It was just another example of Trump’s obsession with...
by KirkLC
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on Thu Jan 09, 2020 at 07:25 AM PST
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U.S. troops will be evacuating from Iraq under fire. Will it wake MAGA's up to their false idolatry? The occupation of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by unarmed militia members was a statement by Iran to Trump that they are in control of our destiny in Iraq. But because Trump is an impetuous child and can’t track an issue past 280 characters, he didn’t...
by B12love
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on Fri Jan 03, 2020 at 02:56 PM PST
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Yesterday was the last day to apply for a nomination to the service academies, and it got me thinking about something I learned going from Wayne County to the United States Naval Academy: The unfortunate bias of “legacy.” When I arrived for “Induction...
by RogerMisso
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on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 01:50 PM PDT
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by teacherken
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on Sun Oct 06, 2019 at 03:31 PM PDT
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