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Desperado
Linda Ronstadt with the recently deceased Glen Frey and the Eagles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIUiL3k0hY
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Bernie’s Club
A reader commenting on my recent post – http://www.samwebb.org/bernies-victory-a-jump-start-to-recast-the-future/ – had this to say, “I have the impression that Sanders was not taken very seriously, in your quarter, until now. Welcome to the Bernie Club.” What follows is part of…
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Shining a light on Scalia and the Supreme Court
Linda Greenhouse, the former New York Times reporter who covered with great acuity the Supreme Court for many years until her recent retirement, shows that acuity once again in an oped in the Times. With precision, subtlety, and seeming detachment,…
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Electability isn’t a dirty word.
On the website of The Nation today, Ari Berman makes a persuasive argument that the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia has turned the makeup of the Supreme Court into the preeminent issue in this election. “It’s become a cliché…
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Bernie’s victory: a jump start to recast the future
The Sanders presidential primary run is quickly becoming the most significant progressive/left challenge to “establishment politics and economics,” to use Bernie’s words, in the past 30 or so years. This doesn’t take away from the significance of other past or…