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Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:53 AM EST (The New York Times)
Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring.
Turning America into Pottersville
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:59 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …
The G.O.P.'s 'Black People' Platform
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:04 AM EST (The New York Times)
As we’ve gotten around to casting votes to select a Republican presidential nominee, the antiblack rhetoric has taken center stage. You just have to love (and despise) this kind of predictability.
A sad total: In 2011, 35 UN staff were killed
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 6:34 AM EST (Reliefweb)
Thirty-five United Nations personnel — 25 civilians, nine peacekeepers and a military adviser — were killed in 2011, according to the Staff Union Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service.
British aid worker seized at gunpoint in Pakistan
Seeded on Fri Jan 6, 2012 6:55 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British doctor with International Committee of the Red Cross, kidnapped by unknown armed gang in Quetta
ROBERT REICH: Here's What Happens To Countries That Stop Valuing The Public Good
Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 7:10 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet bu …
The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Libertarianism
Tue Jan 3, 2012 8:43 AM EST
With the growing popularity of Ron Paul and his libertarian agenda some libertarian’s think that their basic concept of the supremacy of the individual over the needs of the commons is somehow taking hold in the wider electorate.
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Nigeria: UNICEF staff member dies as a result of Nigerian terrorist attack
Seeded on Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:48 AM EST (Google)
Another United Nations staff member has died as a result of the suicide bombing that struck the world body's offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, four months ago. Fred Simiyu Willis, an employee of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), died on 23 December in South Africa, where …
Three Somali aid workers shot dead
Seeded on Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:00 AM EST (Reuters)
A gunman killed three Somali aid workers, including two with the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP), in Somalia on Friday, development officials said. The attack took place in the central Somali town of Matabaan, in a region under the control of the Ahlu Sunna gro …
DEAR HOWARD SCHULTZ: If You Really Want To Save America, Why Don't You Give Starbucks Baristas A Raise?
Seeded on Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:51 PM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
In the late 1970s, our companies got fat, lazy, bloated, and less-profitable, and a generation of corporate raiders and Gordon Gekkos justifiably began restructuring them and making them more competitive.
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