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Steven Waldman
Disposable Immigrants
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Though largely about the disturbing way much of our food is produced, the most haunting scene for me in the movie Food, Inc. shows how meat processing and poultry plants recruit illegal immigrants — and then work with law enforcement to insure that the immigrants get arrested and deported at a nice liesurely pace so…
Lady Liberty, Fourth of July
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swaldman
Amy, Gordon and I took a boat trip into New York Harbor to watch the fireworks. The Statue of Liberty at sunset was extraordinary.
A Key to Sarah Palin’s Future: Mike Huckabee
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swaldman
If Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation reflected a decision to run for the Presidency — and not some new scandal about to erupt — it means the critical figure in the Republican party now is Mike Huckabee. Palin is armored in Christian teflon. Many of her supporters view her not just a victim of persecution for…
Celebrating Our Patriotic Holy War
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swaldman
John Adams wrote to Abigail on July 3, 1776 that July 2 ought to be celebrated not only with “bells, bonfires and illuminations” but “as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.” It makes sense since many Americans at the time viewed it as a Holy War. Some believed that…
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