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Dear George: Now that you feel you have a mandate from the American people it is time that we addressed the foremost concern of those who voted for you. I speak, of course, of Moral Values. But it is not enough to speak of Moral Values. You must have...
by zack600
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on Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM PST
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by Bill Addis
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on Thu Nov 28, 2024 at 10:15 AM PST
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There is a tough Democratic primary occurring for the first congressional district of Missouri in the St Louis area. Cori Bush has been out canvassing and meeting with residents, as have many volunteers in nearly daily events. On Sunday, some of us...
by greenandblue
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on Wed Jul 24, 2024 at 10:23 AM PDT
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“That vision thing.”— President George Herbert Walker Bush, explaining why he lost to Bill Clinton The two “v” words in my title will fix the fate of our nation. It happened twice before, when the stakes were not nearly as high. In 1992, the virtually...
by dratler
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on Tue Jul 09, 2024 at 08:02 AM PDT
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Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, following their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier. Yet the...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Many years ago I was an artist working to capture my life story in paintings using old dolls and toys to represent the people in my life, my family — especially my father and grandmother who were both deceased by that time but whose influence has...
by Susan Warley
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 01:43 PM PDT
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90 feet high, according to George. His crew took down that massive tree pictured above. I will say, She was a little past 40 years along. We had her “clear cut” 15 years ago, and they did a great job. Breakage from wind, and my wife reckons a lightning...
by McGovern78
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on Fri Oct 01, 2021 at 01:17 AM PDT
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Published Yesterday, Brown University came out with the newest version of its massive series of studies of the cost of war, which can be accessed here, through its summary of findings. watson.brown.edu/… The projects includes a vast number of...
by Mrmuni12
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on Thu Sep 02, 2021 at 02:07 PM PDT
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This is my first diary. I have followed the news this morning and it is next to impossible to make heads or tails out of it. There are a lot of hot takes and pretty much every hot take I have seen is deficient in some way. You can’t boil down a war...
by PastorOfMuppets
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on Sun Aug 15, 2021 at 08:05 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Seven years after the Soviet Union collapsed in a heap of post-Afghan-War rubble and seven years after President George H.W. Bush...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Jul 29, 2021 at 07:27 AM PDT
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Did you know there’s another Bush politician? No, not warmongering party guy . Not warmongering� scary CIA guy .
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jun 03, 2021 at 05:05 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” So went the famed Vietnam War-era protest lyrics first sung by the Temptations....
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 09:00 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. If, on September 10, 2001, you had told me that my country, which from 1979 to 1989 had fought a secret war against the Soviet...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Mar 25, 2021 at 10:13 AM PDT
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It is no secret that we, in America, are as divided as we have ever been since the civil war. We may already be in another civil war. The next few months will show us whether all the FBI alerts for domestic terrorism are backed by serious...
by 40ford
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on Sat Feb 20, 2021 at 03:33 PM PST
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• 2001: They zealously supported a bill that violates the Bill of Rights and they called it the “Patriot Act”. • 2009: They pretended to be outraged when then-President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan. • 2014: They also pretended to be outraged...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 08:17 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. TomDispatch is essentially a no-submissions site. The only exception I’ve made over the years has been for those in the U.S....
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Dec 08, 2020 at 11:10 AM PST
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by WB Reeves
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on Sat Nov 14, 2020 at 12:31 AM PST
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Democrats speaking out have no affect on those who are listening to Trump and his toadies. Republicans like Romney and Kasich don’t have any credibility with them. Gov Wilder (ma), Gov Ridge (ex-pa), Hogan (md) have tweeted out support or at...
by bcknynj
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on Tue Nov 10, 2020 at 01:37 PM PST
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In normal times, I understand George W Bush’s desire to “Retire” from politics, but this isn’t… I understand his natural lean toward avoiding ruffling fellow GOP feathers, but it’s not that party any more… I understand not wanting to tarnish his legacy...
by KKwriter
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on Mon Oct 26, 2020 at 08:23 PM PDT
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I find this as a big story. All former living Presidents and this not limited to their staffs and former cabinet members who are standing ready to vote against Trump. I used this pic as it was the only one I could find that included all...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 08:19 AM PDT
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