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Why it doesn’t excuse the right that Jared Loughner acted alone
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Gus diZerega
UPDATE I & II As I have been reading discussions about what happened in Arizona, over and over again those on the right or those not wanting to admit we have a genuine problem in this country claim Jared Loughner was a “lone crazed individual” as if that somehow absolves Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Glenn…
The significance of the murders in Tucson
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Gus diZerega
The murder of a young girl and other people in Arizona today is a predictable result of the violent language that has built up in this country over the past decade or so, starting with Ann Coulter Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh and right wing intellectuals like Thomas Sowell calling for military coups. Today similar…
Thousands of Muslims risk their lives defending Coptic Christians from terrorists
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Gus diZerega
One of the most depressing recent blots on the increasingly blotched American character was the ignorant and infantile outrage by so many over the “Ground Zero Mosque” (which was none of the above). To make their case they had to demonize the Muslim community as a whole. This outrage continues to be promoted by bigots…
China’s honey scam and economic logic at its worst
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Gus diZerega
Bees are under considerable threat these days, and we are not sure whether it is due to one or two pathogens or maybe to a complex series of interrelationships. Two recent discussions of possibly very complex relations are in Wired and at Treehugger. But that is ultimately a scientific questuon I have no expertise on. …
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