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Tea Party Takes a Slice Out of American Pie

Tea Party organizers have made a living on crossing the line between good-natured banter and insensitive sacrilege. They flaunt their Americanism while flogging the essence of the Constitution. They compare the president to Adolf Hitler. They blame poverty on laziness. Well, add another target to their list of verbal victims – the dead. Toward the end of the San Francisco Tea Party, which took place in all its glory at Union Square April 15, rally leader Sally Zelikovsky led the congregati...
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Despite valiant efforts, newspapers dying

By Christopher Haire Who needs news? No, I am serious. Who needs it? Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Neil Sheehan are museum exhibits of an outdated past. The days of government watchdogs disseminating news to the public are over – we have blogs, press agents and Wikipedia for that. Last night at McKenna Theater, somewhere between descriptions of the radical San Francisco Panorama and listening to Dave Eggers, Phil Bronstein and Oscar Villalon give what was in effect a state of the ...
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Women who dared to be different

First Person By Audrey Arthur As a feminist and an aspiring journalist, I constantly evaluate myself in terms of femininity. As do many women in the workplace, I frequently try to hide any feminine characteristics in order to prove that I can play with the big boys. I fear to be seen as meek, faint, or overly emotional just because I carry a Kotex in my purse. But I must admit that I frequently overcompensate when hiding my femininity, leaving my stories bland and lacking in sentiment. ...
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A fresh perspective on “My War Gone By”

By Khaboshi Imbukwa War is horrible. Genocide even worse. There is nothing you can say that can make anything better when it comes to genocide. I remember my dad saying that lucky are those who aren’t born because they don’t know the pain of the living. This book is a perfect example of what my father said. My War Gone By is a riveting book that takes you inside the Serbian War. Many died horribly, slaughtered, executed, and buried in mass graves, and villages wiped from the face of the ea...
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Can a corporation be defined as a pyschopath?

by Lindsey Graham-Jones The greed flaw: the rope to hang the corporation Corporations are psychopaths. No, really. The documentary film The Corporation makes this bold assertion and a few more. Not only are they legally considered to be individual, on a diagnosis checklist, they check every box. “They would have all the characteristics,” says Dr. Robert Hare, consultant to the FBI on psychopaths. The film’s narrator questions, “if the dominant institution of our time has been created...
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