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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Trouble With Trump
BY JOE CONASON Everything we really need to know about the character of Donald Trump was revealed when the wannabe president frivolously accused Barack Obama’s late grandparents of committing fraud with his birth announcement. Trump told CNN that they had placed the Aug. 13, 1961, announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser because they wanted to get […]
22 Days
The Bloody War That Millions of Americans Prefer To Overlook
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN For a nation that that loves anniversaries, the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War – April 12, 1861 – crept by on tiptoe, like a burglar slipping through a darkened house. Yet the Civil War was, given the size of the population at the time, a fearful killer. […]
Dinner In Brentwood
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The traffic alerts are already out. Since no one can ever tell you which route a president is going to take, the most that traffic-conscious Angelenos [I think I’ve included everyone here] can find out is where he’s going and when he’s leaving. The news is not good. The president is attending […]