Daily Archives For Saturday, October 22, 2011

Green Party Candidate Could Make History in Syracuse Council Race

10/22/2011, Darcy G. Richardson, No Comment

Longtime activist and community organizer Howie Hawkins hopes to become the first Green Party candidate in history to win a partisan office in New York State when he faces Democrat Khalid Bey in the race…

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What Romney’s Religion Reveals About His Politics

10/22/2011, Aimee Braddock, 8 Comments

Recent expressions of political and religious prejudice against Mormons and the Church of Latter-Day Saints have offered Mitt Romney a chance to play the bullied underdog — and to explain, as he did with clarity…

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Welcome to Our Banana Republic and Its Global Panopticon

10/22/2011, Aimee Braddock, 1 Comment

The day I became a citizen of these United States, June 17, 2009, in the old Paramount Theater in downtown Oakland, I raised my right hand and swore that I “absolutely and entirely renounce and…

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Let Them Eat Keller

10/22/2011, Aimee Braddock, No Comment

Funny, he doesn’t look like Marie Antoinette. But when former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller asks his readers if they are “bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street,”…

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Domestic Misfits and Foreign Terrorists

10/22/2011, Aimee Braddock, No Comment

When trying to make sense of terrorists, we examine their “causes.” In the cases of Muslim terrorists, we search their religious views and political indoctrination. But when looking at other Americans who commit outrages not…

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