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November 4, 2009
- President Obama has appointed 25 new members to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, a Reagan-era creation that combines representatives of federal cultural agencies (i.e., National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery ...
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October 26, 2009
- Tea Party Express II kick-off at Tuna Park, San Diego located next to the USS Midway. Image Credit: Neil Turner Tea Party Express II: Bakersfield & Fresno: You're Next! Get ready folks, because the second edition of the Tea Party Express is coming to a grassroots, "Take My Country Back" town near you! The tour entitled "Countdown To Judgment Day" is scheduled ...
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October 24, 2009
- Perhaps it is merely force of habit, but I often find myself imagining what powerful public figures are really thinking as they act in ways that impact on our lives. Unlike psychologists and psychiatrists, who make a lifetime study of human motivation and rely on data that has been acquired scientifically by repetition, experimentation, observation and insight, the novelist operates purely on ...
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October 23, 2009
- Growing up in New York in the thirties and forties, there were at least eleven daily newspapers, all spouting varying opinions from both left and right perspectives. Offered by the news organizations were a potpourri of praise and anger, mostly anger, at perceived abuses, both social and governmental.The din was loud, a Tower of Babel of opinions. There were public parades and protests. The ...
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October 15, 2009
- A WIZARD IS A WIZARD AFTER ALL!Dorothy: If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises!Wizard: Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you an audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now! Oh! The Great Oz has ...
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October 12, 2009
October 10, 2009
- You do not have to be an expert in history to know that hatred, blind, bigoted, ignorant, cruel hatred is a pervasive element in the human psyche. Perhaps, given the bloody record from the beginning of time, it is one of the most dominant features of the human condition. The litany of hatred is infinite. Yes, there are people who hate blacks because they are black. People hate Jews because they ...
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October 9, 2009
- Stephen --This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous ...
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September 25, 2009
- Some days it seems so obvious that we might get a lot further ahead if we could admit just how far behind we are.For instance, what if for one day all white people admitted that yes, indeed we are all inherently racist? And what if we went even further to say that it is only the degree to which we disrupt the internalized racism we carry within, that we become less racist--or at least become more ...
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September 25, 2009
- [This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.] For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist. But no matter how laughable, the claim keeps popping up, most recently in the form of the Republican Party chairman’s warning of “a ...
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