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Edmund Burke and American Conservatism
It has become a truism that modern American conservatism is revolutionary in the sense that it seeks to overturn the established order rather than to preserve it. “Reagan Revolution,” …
Keystone Hearing in Nebraska Sandhills Draws Mostly Critics, and Passions Flare
Atkinson, Neb. - People began arriving at West Holt Junior-Senior High School before noon on Thursday, some in pickups or cars from nearby ranches and farms, others in buses …
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California School Spending Among Lowest in Nation
Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by the California …
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Gandhi’s Lesson for Today
(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …
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Judging a Long, Deadly Reach
Anwar al-Awlaki. (Photo: Wikimedia) Washington - The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by …
Limitless Space: Computerized Dataveillance Since 9/11
(Photo: Jonathan McIntosh / Flickr) Hundreds of state, local and federal databases clog our nation's digital infrastructure, collecting, sharing and hoarding inconceivable amounts of information about ordinary …
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Pentagon Says Chaplains May Perform Gay Weddings
Washington - The Defense Department issued new guidelines Friday that allow military chaplains to officiate at same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such weddings are …
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Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Has Succeeded
(Photo: Paul Stein / Flickr) #OccupyWallStreet protests are now well into their second week, and they are increasingly capturing the public spotlight. This is because, whatever limitations …
Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: puntidivitaestilidivista, Pulpolux !!!) On August 14, 2011, Vance Gilbert, a middle-aged African-American musician, was sitting on a plane at Logan Airport reading …
Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors
(Photo: Christian Newton / Flickr) "Unrestrained financial exploitations have been one of the great causes of our present tragic condition." -President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933