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Its time to fight back
December 3, 2004As many of my fellow Americans, I’ve been distressed over the results of the election. It’s not so much that Bush is going to be in power again, but more because Americans have voluntarily (as far...
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The entitlement that goes with expensive seats
December 3, 2004Opinion Where we sit no one yells at the players. Up here they don’t throw beer, ice or folding chairs on professional athletes. We sit in the very last row at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia...
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Religion, faith and communism
December 3, 2004Opinion “The divisions of Christianity are no longer Protestant verses Catholic but conservative verses liberal.” – Belief.net When I worked at SEIU (the Service Employees union) with the various groups that use the union’s call center...
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On moral values
December 3, 2004Opinion Some of us who consider ourselves to be liberals or progressives have been just too quiet in the conversation about moral values. Some have argued that those who live in the so-called “blue states,” those...
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Letters
December 3, 2004Remember the Butterflies I just got through reading “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez. It’s an incredibly moving account of the courageous Mirabel sisters of the Dominican Republic, who were jailed, tortured and...
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