U.S.
The genius of Ewan MacColl, lifelong artist & activist
July 26, 2008BOOK REVIEW Ewan MacColl is best known as the writer of the Grammy-winning “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” the love song he wrote for his wife and musical partner, Peggy Seeger. But not...
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Challenging the Christian rights crusade
July 26, 2008DVD REVIEW The Christian right claims that in speaking out against gay rights it only adheres to Biblical orthodoxy. After all, the Bible says that homosexuality is wrong, doesn’t it? Daniel Karslake’s persuasive documentary “For The...
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This Jokers no joke
July 26, 2008Heath Ledger as the “Joker” in “The Dark Night” has many speculating he may win an Academy Award posthumously for the role. Ledger died last January of an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 28. The...
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Fearing voter wrath, GOPers buck Bush on Medicare
July 26, 2008Sen. Edward Kennedy’s appearance in the Senate recently, in the midst of his personal battle against brain cancer, to break a Republican filibuster against a bill to save Medicare will go down in history. Days later,...
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Obama trip spotlights new direction for U.S. foreign policy
July 24, 2008News analysis Barack Obama appeared to have scored a major success in projecting “commander-in-chief” ability and foreign policy savvy in his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq last week, and continued that path as he traveled to...
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