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Jayne Lyn Stahl's Blog
November 6, 2009
- After this week's big losses for Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, one can't help but speculate about the impact the far right, bible belt conservatives will have on the landscape that is the Republican Party over the next eight years. Some see civil war already in the works with faux moderates being tackled by the nouveau neo-conservative movement.
The John Birch Society, which has been ...
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November 5, 2009
- There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened today at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious place to start is Virginia Tech. We know that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who perpetrated the largest shooting at a military base in U.S. history today, graduated attended the college.
There are striking similarities between the modus operandi in both cases: ...
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November 3, 2009
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Text and drive? If you live in England, and someone dies because you rear end them while texting, you will face jail time. In 2008, Great Briatin issued a directive which clearly states that "prolonged texting" may be prosecuted as inflicting "death by dangerous driving."
Consider the wrenching, horrific case of a young Oxford woman, Victoria McBryde, an aspiring fashion designer who ...
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October 29, 2009
- Look, I'm as thrilled as everyone that the House reached agreement on a health care reform plan that will ensure medical coverage for 96% of Americans. This is a milestone, and a landmark piece of legislation which will make it through voting process next week. But, here's my concern. In the proposal, there are numerous references to employers, as well as what happens to those who lose their ...
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October 25, 2009
- Okay, now that you've had your evening glass of wine, and that hot bath, you're maybe ready for a bedtime story, so what comes to mind is the time I saw Andy Warhol walking down Madison Avenue (Mad, for short).
Yes, that's right, it was, I'm guessing, somewhere around 1980, and I was somewhere around Madison and 33rd, in mid-afternoon, half-in, half-out of reverie---pushing my way through the ...
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October 24, 2009
- Hoping for a 3rd party to come along, and do away with the two party paradigm whcih has quickly become Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dee Light? Well, stay tuned because something is happening in a New York congressional race which portend that change is en route, maybe not the change you had in mind, though.
While she may have left politics in Alaska, over the past few days, Sarah Palin proved that ...
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October 22, 2009
- Dick Cheney, a former vice president, today accused Barack Obama, a sitting president, of "dithering around" and not moving quickly enough when it comes to deciding whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan. But, why does Dick Cheney care? What is his interest in the current administration's decision, one way or another?
His investment in Halliburton, a company that provides technical ...
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October 18, 2009
- By now, word has gotten out that FreedomWorks, the right wing organization chaired by Dick Armey, that advocates for lower taxes, and smaller government, is the same group behind tea baggers who opposed Obama's stimulus plan. Protests against the $787 billion congressional bailouts have been widely linked to Rep. Armey, and the Washington, D.C. nonprofit. But, it doesn't stop there.If you take a ...
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October 11, 2009
- On September 30th, Peter Galbraith, the highest ranking American, and deputy to U.N. ambassador, Kai Eide, was fired for disclosing Eide's efforts to understate voter fraud in the recent Afghan election. It was not the Norwegian diplomat, Eide, but U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who dismissed Galbraith.
Now, nearly two weeks later, Eide acknowledges "widespread fraud" in the election, and ...
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October 11, 2009
- It was a warm afternoon last autumn when we finally arranged to meet at a five star hotel on the west side of Los Angeles. The infamous Santa Ana winds were blowing dry heat in the hotel lobby with such ferocity that the flag perched outside was shaking like an arthritic mermaid. Shortly past 1 p.m., a slender, rather ebullient man appears in the revolving doorway. His head is partially covered ...
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October 3, 2009
- Oscar Wilde has a birthday coming up in about two weeks. It's true, he's a dead guy, but I think of him anyway, and now even more so in light of what Roman Polanski is going through. I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that Oscar would be facing a similar fate now to the one he faced more than a century ago. We've come a long way? I don't think so. The mob mentality is pervasive as are the ...
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October 1, 2009
- In Miami today, two men, both in their 60's, sued the archdiocese for sexual abuse they allege took place more than 40 years ago. One man says, when he was 14, he was drugged and raped by one priest when he went to church to grieve the loss of his parents.
I think it's high time the clergy get their fair share of public contempt, and cries for paying their debt to society, to which Roman ...
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October 1, 2009
- Okay, am I the only one who thinks the biggest enemy we face now isn't the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, but bad taste? Just when it looks like we've heard enough about Roman Polanski's capers, and after we finally laid Michael Jackson to rest, David Letterman has to go and open his own peculiar pandora's box by revealing affairs with staffers, and an attempt at extortion, both before a live audience.We ...
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September 30, 2009
- Much has been said about the moral, and legal imperatives in the Roman Polanski case, and about how important it is that justice be served in the matter. Much has been said about the need for Mr. Polanski to pay his dues to society, but what does society owe us? Factoring out moral considerations, factoring out celebrity, is it not egregious abuse of power for a judge to accept a plea bargain, ...
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September 24, 2009
