Tag: responsibility
member name: Rory M.
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . . more
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April 08, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . . more
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . . more
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 24, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
All new parents, when their child is born (usually in a hospital) should be given these instructions as the baby is placed in their arms:
Here is your new child, it is a wild animal that will act . . . more
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July 09, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
There is a holocaust going on amongst the nations that comprise the majority of humanity on this globe, it has been going on for a generation, it dwarfs The Holocaust that was perpetrated by the Nazis, . . . more
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September 28, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Someone remarked to me recently how ironic they found it that Germany, a country which had lost the two biggest wars in history within the last century alone, had been torn in two and governed by two opposing . . . more
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January 20, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
I was leaving a grocery store this morning, you know the kind, where you have to insert a quarter to free up a shopping cart. I guess they figure that if you're going to steal a shopping cart that . . . more
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September 18, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
Let me introduce you to Mickey, son of Scamp, puppy-under-the-blanket.
Mickey was a replacement for a previously loved dog who, unfortunately, died on the highway that runs in front of our home. That . . . more
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January 08, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
America has never been an empire in the same way that, for example, Britain and Spain once were. Those nations established colonies around the globe from Hong Kong to North America and from The Philippines . . . more
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October 07, 2006 01:03 AM EDT --
It was 1939 and the city of Montreal, Harry's adopted hometown and the only place in the world he'd ever known, was still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.
Harry was luckier . . . more
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October 08, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
On Friday, October 6th the Toronto Star, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Canada, carried a front page story about a Canadian soldier who was wounded while fighting in Afghanistan. To his great . . . more
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December 18, 2006 10:19 PM EST --
It is often said by right wing politicians and pundits that the best government is the government which governs least.
This saying is in keeping with the ideology that embraces the supremacy of the individual . . . more
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February 10, 2007 02:31 AM EST --
We live in an age of rage. Think about it. There's road rage, air rage tax rage not to mention exotic forms of rage with labels like "going postal".
For some reason, this era in which we . . . more
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December 11, 2006 12:21 AM EST --
In recent years there has been a mild controversy over the way we observe the Christmas season. Well meaning but non-sensical decisions to eliminate the word "Christmas" from public celebration . . . more
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