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Friday August 11, 2006 · 4:36 PM PDT

2006/08/11 · 16:36

The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that Robert McCullough, who led a group of black students in a landmark 1961 civil rights protest, choosing to serve jail time on a chain gang for the crime of sitting at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina, has died. He was 64.

McCullough and his fellow students were given the choice between paying a $100 fine and spending 30 days on a chain gang. They chose the latter. They made the state pay for their upkeep rather than giving it money for backing segregation.

How many of us could spend 30 days on a chain gang? I'm almost 50. I wouldn't last a day.
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The Fate of In Vitro Fertilization

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 4:17 PM PDT

2006/07/25 · 16:17

With a stroke of a pen, George Bush "saved" 400,000 lives. Or so that's the estimate I read in Monday's Philadelphia Inquirer. That's how many fertilized human ova lie in deep freeze right now, waiting for a proper funeral.

Where did these lil humans come from? Left Behinders after in vitro fertilization. Read More

More Bryan Liberals, Please

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 2:28 PM PDT

2006/07/21 · 14:28

No one remembers William Jennings Bryan anymore, and if they do it's just as that doddering loony fundie in "Inherit the Wind." But that's doing all of us a disservice, because we need a leader like him right this very minute.

Bryan was nominated for president by the Democratic Party three times (1896, 1900, 1908). He never won. Then as now he faced a well-heeled Republican juggernaut. But he was absolutely beloved by millions. And he was a Christian liberal. Read More

Wal-Mart Triumphant!

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 12:45 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 12:45

It was too good to last, of course. A federal court judge ruled yesterday that the law Maryland passed to force large employers in the state either to insure their employees or to make reparations to the state Medicaid fund unfairly targeted Wal-Mart.

It boils my blood to think that this behemouth of a company can get away with depriving its workforce of adequate benefits, forcing them to rely on taxpayer dollars when they're sick. Read More

New Jersey's Not Blue Enough for Me

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Tuesday July 11, 2006 · 11:53 AM PDT

2006/07/11 · 11:53

Hats off to Governor Corzine, the guy with the beard and geeky glasses, for sticking to his guns and raising the New Jersey sales tax to 7 percent. Call me a liberal if you like, but a state is like a household: We all have to pay our bills and stop fixing things by borrowing money. Read More

The Rape of Maryland's Mountains and Its Chesapeake

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Monday June 26, 2006 · 11:00 AM PDT

2006/06/26 · 11:00

Two controversial development projects are forging ahead in Maryland, and we Kossacks can voice our opinions about them whether we live in Maryland or not. Read More

Wal-Mart vs. Maryland: A Tale of Two Scalias

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Saturday June 24, 2006 · 12:06 PM PDT

2006/06/24 · 12:06

Last spring the Maryland state legislature passed a bill requiring Wal-Mart stores in the state to reimburse the state's Medicaid fund or provide health care for its employees. Like other states, Maryland faces spiraling deficits, and some taxpayers resent having to foot the bill for insuring Wal-Mart employees and their children.

Today the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Wal-Mart will challenge the Maryland law in court. Representing Wal-Mart is none other than Eugene Scalia, whose dad, Antonin, sits on the Supreme Court. Read More

Is There a Tattoo Artist in the House?

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Saturday June 17, 2006 · 1:32 PM PDT

2006/06/17 · 13:32

I'm so grateful for my newspaper. How else would I know that a tattoo artist in Philadelphia makes a bigger annual salary than Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel? Wow. That sure makes career guidance easier for my teenagers.

Perzel, defending the (since-rescinded) Pennsylvania legislators' pay raise of 2005, told the public television show "Smart Talk" that his salary compared with those of big-city tattoo artists. "When I see that a tattoo artist ... makes more than a legislator, I think there's a problem," he said.

Previously Perzel had said that cow-milkers in Amish country make more than state legislators too. Read More

Boycott Ann's Publisher

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 10:45 AM PDT

2006/06/08 · 10:45

About 15 years ago, the Scott Paper Company hired a man named "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap to increase Scott's profit margin. With glee, Dunlap oversaw the closing of Scott's largest production plant near Philadelphia. Thousands of long-time Scott employees were thrown out of work.

I have not bought a single Scott product from that day to this. It was not only seeing the weeping Scott workers on the television, it was reading about Dunlap's smug happiness and complete indifference to the working peoples' plight.

Like so many other posters here, I am affronted by Ann Coulter's remarks about the 9/11 widows. But worse, I am absolutely appalled that she could title a book "Godless" and refer to all liberals as such. Read More

Another Tricky T-Shirt Issue

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Monday June 05, 2006 · 8:09 AM PDT

2006/06/05 · 08:09

First there was the girl in South Carolina who wanted to wear a t-shirt to school with the Stars and Bars on it, to celebrate her "family heritage."

Now a group of Christian students are going to court for the right to wear t-shirts and hang posters with "warnings" against homosexual activity, as it is a sin according to the Bible.

This group of students was allowed to have a Bible club at school and to post announcements about meeting times, etc. Apparently this isn't enough for them. They want to be able to air their views in public school. After all, gay students can wear rainbow t-shirts and advocate their lifestyle. Read More

Move Over, Dixie Chicks

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Friday May 26, 2006 · 1:22 PM PDT

2006/05/26 · 13:22

I applaud the Dixie Chicks for having the guts to stick with their beliefs. Let us never underestimate the power of a protest song, whether it's "This Land Is Your Land," "What's Goin' On," or "Ohio."

For my money, the best protest song in years is still flying under the radar. It's "We Can't Make It Here" by James McMurtry. You can hear an acoustic version on You Tube if you type in James McMurtry.

According to McMurtry's web site, the Chicago rock stations started playing the studio version of "We Can't Make It Here" (CD: Childish Things, 2006) and they got mobbed with requests for it. Read More

Freedom to Wear a Rebel T-Shirt

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Monday May 22, 2006 · 3:54 PM PDT

2006/05/22 · 15:54

Cheeky Beaky has been firmly warned that her outrageous humor is not allowed here. So Cheeky will abstain from frivolity.

A South Carolina youngster is going to court for the right to wear a t-shirt with a Confederate flag on it to her school. She says she has ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, and she wishes to honor them. The school administration has made her turn her shirts inside out, and sometimes has sent her home due to her apparel.

This is a very tricky one, if you ask me. On the one hand, she has the right to freedom of expression. On the other, is wearing this emblem putting her in personal danger in the classrooms? Read More

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