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See Newt Run
Oh, please, Santa Claus, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Care
The glacial progress toward equality for gay Americans offers some revealing looks at our society. One is the weakening hold of religion, Roman Catholicism in particular. Until recently church bias against homosexuals was plainly understood, unspoken, unchallenged, and accepted.
The Lineup: Week of August 30-September 5, 2010
The latest OtherWords editorial package includes an op-ed by Kevin Shih regarding CEOs who unnecessarily slash jobs–a practice that earns them outrageous compensation and harms our economy–and a Labor Day op-ed by AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
Icarus Inc.
Rotten Egg Farming
The vast Iowa egg recall is terrifying. So far, half a billion eggs are involved. Who knows how many we have already eaten? Our health authorities say about 1,300 Americans have gotten salmonella from them so far.
The Lineup: Week of August 23-29, 2010
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Fatherless Children
You know things aren’t going well when your life story turns into romantic comedies. I guess it beats tragedies, but still…
Rebranding the Iraq War
The war in Iraq is over. Or so the government and most media outlets will claim on September 1, by which time thousands of U.S. troops will have departed the land of two rivers for other assignments. With this phase of the drawdown, says President Barack Obama, “America’s combat mission will end.” The Pentagon is marking the occasion by changing the name of the Iraq deployment from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation New Dawn.
Five Years after Katrina
Five years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the botched recovery effort that followed, Congress has yet to ensure that survivors of future disasters on the Gulf Coast or elsewhere won’t face the nightmare that still prevents tens of thousands of former residents from returning to the Gulf states. The BP oil disaster is further compounding the consequences of that inept response.
Mosque of Liberty
We would do well to remember why America as a nation exists at all: The early colonists from Europe fled the tyranny of monarchs who could tell them whom, how, whether, when, and where they could worship.
