ddjango posted an article on P! - Nov 12, 2009, 8:20 pm
We know the truth. Michael Werbowski, in "America: After the Fall", tells us ... 20 years after the fall of communism, American-style capitalism has also fallen. But the downfall was silent, without a...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Oct 14, 2009, 5:54 pm
I have thought very carefully before adding my voice to the discussion about the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace. What I've discovered is that few, if any, have written or talked about the irony of the...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Oct 8, 2009, 3:42 pm
I'm a pretty tolerant fellow. I was taught by my elders to appreciate the fact that there is usually a good reason for someone to believe, think, and act as s/he does. But I never thought I'd ...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Oct 3, 2009, 5:13 pm
Does anyone else find it more than a coincidence that lately the fear factory in Washington has stoked the fires up pretty close to a meltdown? The last time there was as much collective dread, I beli...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Sep 21, 2009, 7:10 pm
... . Nothing more than a cheerleader, but it remains to be seen just where the team is and where the gameplan is supposed to get us, although a great many more folks now have an inkling. It is clea...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Sep 7, 2009, 12:56 pm
The bluesman Chris Smither, an old friend of mine, in our mutual drinking days would sometimes disappear after a coffeehouse appearance. The following morning, when questioned where he'd gone off ...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Aug 29, 2009, 4:43 pm
I was "introduced", you might say, to the Kennedys when I was thirteen, in 1960. My father, who had supported Eisenhower in 1952 and Stevenson in 1956, was supporting Kennedy in the 1960 election. JF...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Aug 23, 2009, 6:00 pm
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will ...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Aug 13, 2009, 6:57 pm
In January of this year, just a short time after the inauguration, I posted the letter contained in this post. I repost it here, not to crow about my powers of prognostication, but to simply offer a r...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Aug 6, 2009, 10:13 am
In my previous post (Oblahma: Time for a Moratorium on Talk), I asked, "If there is no really discernible difference between the real agendas of the Democratic and Republican parties, what do we do ab...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Jul 18, 2009, 4:30 pm
There are three men who have set the standard for mass media journalism - Murrow, Cronkite, and Moyers. Unlike many of my readers, I am sure, I am old enough to have been influenced directly and perso...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Jul 12, 2009, 1:30 pm
Somewhere, somehow, during the past few months, we passed a final "point of no return". If there truly was hope in the certain prospect of regime change, from the Bush/Neocon travesty to the Obama/Ne...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Jul 5, 2009, 10:43 am
I am so grateful . . . As some of you know, from April of 2007 until April of 2008, I was penniless, jobless, and homeless, living in a homeless shelter. I was fortunate enough to find work at a loca...
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ddjango posted an article on P! - Jul 2, 2009, 3:03 pm
(Editor's note: this essay is by my philosopher friend John Merryman. John is a 49 year old farmer and horse trainer who grew up and lives in Baltimore County Maryland. Since he is not as obsessed...
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