The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Glass half-full chronicle worth the read

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 8:21pm |
    Bearded old men running scared will lose, though it may take a while  Willem Buiter Whenever the cumulative effect of the daily observation, looking out of my window or into the mirror, of human inequity and wretchedness brings me...

    Prophetic or not?

    By Ripper on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 5:04pm |
    Six days ago, when Josh asked whether Bill Keller and Michael Slackman were correct in their Times piece asserting that Iran's clerics had the upper hand, I responded with this email to Josh:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "victory" in Iran's presidential election is...
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    HAPPY FATHER'S DAY: How to be a better dad

    By Richard Day on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 2:38pm |
    Now I grew up in a home with a mom, a dad (for awhile anyway) and fourteen or fifteen siblings.  It is hard to give you the exact number really.  I mean, one day Joey just showed up and...
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    Random Things I Love AT 57...

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 3:00am |
    I am a scrapbooker (aka the family historian.)  I try to keep track as best I can of the "Days Of Our Lives"...little things that would be lost to us if someone didn't write them down. I keep a list...
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    All Hail The People Of Iran!

    By oleeb on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 9:45pm |
    I cannot but admire the courage and guts of the people of Iran as I view the pictures of them peacefully assembling in the face of violent repression.  Young and old, male and female they march by the thousands and...
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    Truth or Dare/Shouts and Whispers

    By wws on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 4:49pm |
    Because so much of what we read and write about focuses on what is wrong with X or Y, I wanted to make a contribution, and encourage others to make contributions, about what we consider to be right.  For...
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    Adults

    By Barth on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 3:49pm |
    When those of us born in the rough wake of World War II were growing up, many of us divided the world and its rules into those which applied to "adults" and those which we were bound to follow. In...
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    Arizona border zealots, white supremacists, and Janet Napolitano

    By we are stardust on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 8:14am |
    Since the early 1990s, the sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ has been on a crusade against illegal immigrants.  Sheriff Joe Arpaio has apparently neglected other law enforcement duties to follow this mission.  His controvertial policies include sweeping up Mexican-american...
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    I HATE THOSE MEESES TO PIECES

    By Richard Day on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:43pm |
    Edwin Meese III     Firedoglake informs us as of June 10, 2009 that the repubs are receiving a 34% approval rating among the American People.  Now mind you, less than 25% of those polled call themselves repubs.  But...

    June 25th march in DC for health reform

    By Ripper on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 1:41pm |
    Health Care for America Now! is staging a June 25th march in Washington.I'm looking for a ride out of St. Louis.Let's push for the public option now, before the legislation is finalized. The Iranian people have shown us how....
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    Obama disappoints, once again

    By Nebton on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 12:32pm |

    Obama has disappointed many on the left time, and time again, from suppression of abuse/rape photos to giving amnesty to telcos over illegal wire-tapping, just to name a couple.

    This time, however, he's crossed the line.

    We want a President who wouldn't hurt a fly. Don't we? Well, maybe not all of us, but PETA does.

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    Promises To Keep

    By Richard Day on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 9:25pm |
    Well to start all this off, I think we should all sing along to the Woo Hoo Pokeman Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I7Z7swNMs   Woo hoo Woo hoo    Woo hoo Woo hoo    Woo hoo Woo hoo           All righty then. Senator John...
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    30 Years of Revolution: There and Back Again in Iran

    By oleeb on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 7:48pm |
    Pre-revolution In the mid 1970's you could not be on a major American university or college campus without being exposed to the ISA: the Iranian Students Association.  And so it was that in the fall of 1976 I was first...
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    The Parsing of the President IV: The Letter of the Law.

    By amike on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 6:52pm |
        For of all the questions on which our philosophers argue, there is none which it is more important thoroughly to understand than this, that man is born for justice, and that law and equity are not a mere establishment...

    If I'm dead, you're dead, too

    By Ripper on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 1:56pm |
    I can think of many reasons for a single-payer health care system, but one reason in particular absolutely convinces me that anything short of universal single-payer will never deliver effective care to all or control costs.Being on Medicaid isn't a...

    Obama's first 150 days

    By Ripper on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 4:36pm |
    Friday will mark President Obama's 150th day in office. Unlike the scrutiny and fanfare that marked his 100th day as president, Friday will go largely ignored as a point of historical demarcation. But it seems to me time for another...
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    Who Is the Biggest Hypocrite In This Picture?

    By Richard Day on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 3:58pm |
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    Arizona border zealots, white supremacists, and Janet Napolitano

    By we are stardust on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 5:36pm |
    Since the early 1990s, the sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ has been on a crusade against illegal immigrants.  Sheriff Joe Arpaio has apparently neglected other law enforcement duties to follow this mission.  His controvertial policies include sweeping up Mexican-american citizens...
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    What Could Hillary Have Taught Sarah?

    By Richard Day on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 2:49pm |
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    Parsing the President III: Connectivity, Place and Time

    By amike on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 12:47pm |
        More particularly, it came down to the men who landed here -- those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who are with us here today.  Perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of...
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    A Letter To The People of Iran

    By Joe Wood on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 5:13am |
    If we did not care about Iran before, we do now.  Through five American Presidents, we knew Iran as a Turban on a white-bearded man's face, a man with dark brooding eyes.  We knew Iran as a group of hostage...
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    Nuremberg: Lessons to Learn

    By Richard Day on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 10:46pm |
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    GOP euthanizes perfectly healthy Truth

    By Ripper on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 8:10pm |
    What's wrong with the GOP's attack on President Obama's health care plan? Plenty. POLITICO (Washington) - As President Barack Obama tried to sell the American Medical Association today on his health care overhaul, the top Senate Republicans launched a familiar...
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    Larry Franklin catches a break in court

    By acanuck on Mon, 06/15/2009 - 5:34am |
    Former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin had his day in court yesterday, seeking a reduction of his 12-year sentence for leaking classified information to two lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The same judge who initially sentenced him took...
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    Willie & Barry: A Discussion

    By Richard Day on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 9:04pm |
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