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Category: Media Lies
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Why is it that I have the impression that liberals are losing the battles? Yet, I wonder: How can that be when you analyze the polls about various issues and find the public as a rule favoring individually virtually every major progressive piece of legislation? Take the idea of taxing the wealthy and the corporations. …
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How could it have happened? The tea-baggers! The angry white mobs at the town meetings! The Republicans! Are these today’s “populists?” The media loves to throw the noun “populist” on these folks, claiming they are the “common people,” or “ordinary folks.” And the reporters use the word “angry” to describe them. Yet, are these folks…
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No, I won’t make a New Year’s Resolution this year. Over the last few years, I’ve vowed to cure my addiction to reruns of “Law and Order,” the original and all of its offsprings, but alas, I seem to violate it on the very next “Law and Order” marathon day. I’ve concluded I can’t be…
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I fear for democracy. To survive, a democratic nation needs an educated citizenry and a citizenry that appreciates the values that created that Society. In the USA, we all praise our Founding Fathers (there were no women in the early forming of our government nearly 225 years ago) for setting a vision that has created…
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