Source: Newsbusters
Usually movie makers strive to stay ahead of the cultural curve. It makes them “visionaries,” who are “cutting edge,” because they “push the envelope.” Two years ago, “Occupy Wall Street” was the hot fad, stoking the usual left-wing outrage a ...
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Source: The New York Times
Bryan Thomas for The New York Times Students occupying the office of President Jamshed Bharucha at Cooper Union share a meal. Occasionally, supporters have bought dinner for the occupying students. As embattled encampments go, the president’s o ...
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Source: MSNBC
>>> in many ways, the story of american democracy is a paradox, the wealthiest nation on earth, yet one of the most unequal. the land of the american dream , yet still one of limited social mobility . the institutions that us ...
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Source: death + taxes
Less than one year into Barack Obama’s second term, the emerging story of the Obama presidency isn’t the racial barriers crossed and the would-be liberal renaissance. It hasn’t been defined by the old conservative versus libera ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, Lachlan Murdoch News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, left, his wife Wendi Deng and son Lachlan Murdoch leave the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry, Thursd ...
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Source: Patheos Blogs
Review of Epic, Directed by Chris Wedge From Chris Wedge, director of Ice Age, comes Epic, a passable animated feature based on William Joyce’s The Leaf-Men and the Brave Good Bugs. The plot is … well, kind of complex and hard to ...
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Source: openDemocracy
2013 is shaping up to be a quiet year for political protest in Greece. You won’t have heard about the riots, protests, or running street battles. There aren’t any. With talk of a slow ‘Grecovery’, Athens is no longer the epicentre of financial and politi ...
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Source: Baker City Herald
Obamacare: Propping up the paper industry all by itself When Liberals want to blacken the reputation of opponents, they often use the Tea Party as their tar brush. We’ve seen that here recently. But their “tea party” is a made-up strawman and bea ...
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