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Bring the mercenaries home, too
February 8, 2008To a woman and man, both Democratic presidential candidates pledge to bring our troops home. It is a question of when, not if. That’s cautious good news for the families of 160,000 U.S. military personnel in...
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Stupid punditry
February 8, 2008Pundits are busy dissecting the vote totals and telling people what is missing from the movement behind Barack Obama. They are busy, too, telling us who won’t vote for Hillary Clinton. When Obama won Iowa they...
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Protect America from corporate, Bush spies
February 8, 2008The so-called Protect America Act will expire Feb. 15 if it is not renewed. The Senate is about to vote on a deeply flawed version passed in the summer as a temporary fix for what the...
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Letters – Feb. 9, 2008
February 8, 2008Disappointed on ‘Juno’ Reading the review of “Juno” (PWW 1/26-2/1) I was disappointed to see a couple major issues not addressed. This movie seems to prove that “well-received and cute” have little to do with the...
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War on two fronts: racism at home, Nazis overseas
February 8, 2008PITTSBURGH — In 1940, Mitchell Higginbotham heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered the Army Air Corps to create a unit of all African American pilots and support personnel. Defying made-in-the-USA Jim Crow segregation, where not...
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