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Eliza Gaynor Minden should stand up and take a victory lap!

It’s not like the world-wreckers ever seem to manifest a jot of humility, is it? Jon Queally at Common Dreams gives a close-up of the unappetizing spectacle: The unrepentent scoundrel.  Lying, spinning in weasely self-vindication. Power really does make people … Continue reading →

Robert Parry at Consortiumnews, one of those commentators on geopolitical events who actually know something and write honestly–perish the thought–describes the way that our “mainstream” commercial “news” media now chooses to ignore the fact that Bush invaded Iraq in 2003. What … Continue reading →

The same mad dogs who got the whole conflagration going in ’03 are barkering for one mo’ time. Jon Queally at Common Dreams sizes up the fairway. Isn’ it time for Condi to make a speech? Or is she too … Continue reading →

Fox News really is the closest thing we’ve got on TV to a Soviet media enterprise of the 1930s. The innuendo. The provocation. The defamation. The intolerance. The lies. And the projection. Isn’t it funny how the human squawkboxes who … Continue reading →

They’ve got Virginia and Robert Barnett coming to South Carolina to work on Balanchine’s Serenade for a July 2 performance that will also feature a new work by Maryhelen Mayfield.

Mayor Bloomberg and Lloyd Blankfein on Charlie Rose, kvelling about their leadership skills.

Walking past what was Cabrini Hospital on East 19th Street in Manhattan, I’ve wondered how the buildings were going to be reused after the hospital closed in 2008.  I should have known.

Watching Bernie Sanders on Ed Schultz just made it more distressingly apparent how totally inept Obama and his advisors are about reacting to Republican sabotage. It happens time after time: the GOP cuts funding for essential public services. Essential public … Continue reading →

Dean Baker at Truthout targets the downsizing of the Social Security Administration–the right wing’s determination to sandbag this crucial program just doesn’t quit, does it?