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Ignorance, Personified

Arnold Hamilton - December 21, 2013 0

BY JAMES NIMMO The Duck Dynasty incident points out how abysmally ignorant most of the country is. For me it's not what Phil Roberston said –...

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Death Penalty Isn’t Necessary For Justice

Arnold Hamilton - December 20, 2013 0

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The guilty pleas Monday by Alvin Watts and Jacob England to the killing of three African-Americans and the wounding of two...

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The Washington-Wall Street Mutual Backscratching Society

Arnold Hamilton - December 18, 2013 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Timmy Geithner has landed. The Secretary of the Treasury in President Obama’s first term resigned early this year, and we lost track of him for months. But in November, Geithner reappeared, having spun himself through Washington’s revolving door – whoosh, whoosh, whoosh – and flung himself all the way up to Wall […]

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The Judge And The NSA

Arnold Hamilton - December 18, 2013 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I suspect the NSA may have thought they got lucky when one of the first post-Edward Snowden cases to challenge their phone metadata collection was assigned to Judge Richard Leon on the federal district court in Washington, DC. After all, Leon was appointed by President George W. Bush after a long career, […]

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Living To Oneself In The Age Of Twitter

Arnold Hamilton - December 18, 2013 0

BY FROMA HARROP Let us repair to the wild English hearth of 1821, where William Hazlitt is contemplating contemplation. “I never was in a better place or humour than I am at present for writing on this subject,” Hazlitt reports from Winterslow Hut. “I have a partridge getting ready for my supper, my fire is […]