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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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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May 13, 2009 10:58 PM EDT --
(With acknowledgement to William Blake, who wrote the original)
Tiger, tiger, dying light
in the forest, out of sight
what mortal hand and eye
dares decide that you must die
In . . .
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June 28, 2009 12:14 AM EDT --
Michael Jackson and I were about the same age, he being a few months older than I am. Since I was a young child I have been hearing about Michael Jackson, about his impressive musical career, his . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
With the crisis in the financial markets of recent months and especially the past week, and the back-of-cocktail-napkin policy writing on the fly, there is a very big change coming to the way Americans . . .
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November 16, 2008 01:41 AM EST --
Freedom ain't free. It's kind of a slogan, isn't it. You might see it on a bumper sticker, perhaps on the back of a beat up Ford F150 beside a "Support Our Troops" . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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