Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Magic Of The Law

July 2, 2012 – 12:00 am

Fox News and CNN were shucked out of their jocks by Chief Justice Robert’s siding with the left side of the court to support President Obama’s health care reform law. Robert’s had wandered off the range a month ago and the right-leaning judges failed to lead the stray back to pasture. They were especially angered […]

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Freedom Of No Speech

July 1, 2012 – 11:34 pm

The 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights sought to guarantee that “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers” The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects Freedom […]

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Short Memories

July 1, 2012 – 10:01 pm

A few weeks ago Barack Obama was excoriated by the right wing press and Polish government for having called the Nazi extermination camps located in Poland ‘Polish death camps’. The president apologized for this gaffe, but few journalists recalled that back in 2008 the Polish foreign minister made the following joke. “Have you heard that […]

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On His Knees

July 1, 2012 – 4:06 am

James Inhofe has long been the GOP’s leading critic on global warming. His faith has convinced him that Man is incapable of altering his God’s plan for Earth. As late as July 2010 the Oklahoma senator stated, “I don’t think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that […]

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