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Maher Socks it to the Profiteers - Why hasn't everyone else?

By Ramona on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 12:04pm |
So many of us have said for so long that this isn't the America we've known and loved. We've shouted until we're blue in the face that letting the obscenely rich get obscenely richer by sacrificing the entire middle class MAKES NO SENSE.
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Cronkite, McCourt and Ivins - Stilled Voices Still Going Strong

By Ramona on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:25pm |
Frank McCourt died on Sunday. Walter Cronkite died on Friday. Molly Ivins died more than two years ago. As near as I can tell, none of them had much in common with the other, but yesterday I couldn't stop thinking...
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The Fight for Health Care, Part 2 - My Man Stupak takes 'em on

By Ramona on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 3:16pm |
In my last post I tried to shine light on the abuses of the health insurance industry by highlighting Bill Moyers' Journal conversation with Wendell Potter about their efforts to keep the American people from knowing how universally acceptable Universal...
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Bill Moyers shines light on the health insurance mess - a Journalistic Best

By Ramona on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 12:41pm |
There are so few mainstream investigative journalists in this country anymore, I have to wonder in whose pockets the MSM has cozily slipped--and why.When one of our best investigative newspapers has slipped to such depths that it's publisher invites health...
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83-year-old blogger skewers Palin and Pals - Priceless!

By Ramona on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 12:38pm |
Some mornings I just ramble around, reading online stuff here and there, finding things that either inspire me or crack me up--and I ramble so much I have no idea how I got to the places I've been. Such was...
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Chamber of Commerce vs. Labor Unions: Guess who Wins?

By Ramona on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 10:09pm |
Labor is the great producer of wealth: it moves all other causes. Congressman Daniel Webster, 4/2/1824 With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization that ever existed. They have done more for decency,...
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The Mainstreaming of Hate: That's Entertainment!

By Ramona on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 1:02pm |
As a group, they are the pop culture equivalent of necrotic carrion beetles, crawling with insectile determination from one infected open wound in the American psyche to another. The wounds include fear of race, fear of foreigners, fear of sexuality,...
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Obama's "I Have a Dream" speech

By Ramona on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 12:01pm |
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."I have a dream that one...
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Sure Road to Success - Stick it to Labor

By Ramona on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 9:45pm |
I can say this because I'm a liberal and a Michigander: My heart breaks for the laboring class in this country. I feel sorrow even for the workers who can't see that the unions are their only lifeline and inexplicably...
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Sometimes a Picture isn't Worth a Thousand Words

By Ramona on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 2:58pm |
Get some perspective, please. And be honest. We don't need to see those actual photographs in order to get a good picture of prisoner abuses perpetrated in our name. The evidence is surfacing daily and the word is getting out. New witnesses keep coming forward, new memos keep popping up. So how is that happening? It's happening because we finally have a government in place that understands the need for honesty and transparency.

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