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Teach Your Children

By Barth on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 2:31pm |
Yesterday was, of course, last year and day to look back on what, surprisingly from this vantage point, might be a year we look back on with great fondness because it started our country and planet on the way back....
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Hopes for 2008

By Barth on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 8:47pm |
No. That's not a typo sitting up there. A year ago I posted a few hopes for the new year... skipping the blatantly personal...: 1. A political campaign that is based at least in some part on the best aspects...
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December 25

By Barth on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 2:11pm |
My memory, which can be less than photographic sometimes before surprising with a sharp and verifiable recollection of obscure events long ago, says that the device of calling this day "December 25" was imposed on me during childhood. Whether that...
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A question for the journalists on this site

By Barth on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 2:54pm |
What value, other than commercial, is there in MSNBC and other broadcast outlets, letting us here the anguished calls for help to 9-1-1 operators from panicked people caught in yesterday's torrent of water in Maryland?I know how you will answer...
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The Season of Hope

By Barth on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 8:07am |
It's an old saw, this celebration of the "holiday season." According to Olbermann who I watch (or, more accurately, podcast), O'Reilly, who I don't, is bothered by all this and, in a way, so am I. Christmas is not my...
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Finding Reasons to Impeach the President-elect

By Barth on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 1:57pm |
Once again, poor Barth is confused. One day the Washington Post is editorializing thatThe Wilson-Plame case, and Mr. Libby's conviction, tell us nothing about the war in Iraqintentionally ignoring how much it tells us about the creation of phony justifications...
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Associations worth Considering, and Others, Not

By Barth on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 3:43pm |
Stop reading this for a minute and go read Bill Ayers' column in today's NY Times because it reminds us how empty our political campaigns are which, in turn, explains how the country has been led into the hole into...
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Conservatism

By Barth on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 6:36pm |
Josh did us all yet another service by linking to Gabler's LAT piece since this revisionist Goldwater to Reagan to Bush II story of modern conservatism is just so much bunk.  In the million and half books and essays about...
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The Road Ahead

By Barth on Sat, 11/29/2008 - 6:30pm |
A debate has broken out on Daily Kos between two of my favorite "columnists": Teacherken and GrannyDoc. And other posts, such as this one appearing, as they do, on a progressive web site present yet another illustration of how bad...
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Being Thankful While Anxious

By Barth on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 1:10pm |
I love Thanksgiving. It is a holiday, with little or no religious significance for most of us, spent, ideally, with family or friends. Only the Fourth of July is better, in my opinion.It celebrates our thanks for so many things,...

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