Analysis
Democracy and inequality
February 3, 2006African American History Month can serve to remind all of us that democracy in our U.S. of A. is illusive. It can also serve as a period to seriously reflect — though the challenges of real...
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LETTERS
February 3, 2006My opinion My parents were both immigrants from the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. They came in the earlier part of the 1900s. They were both from very poor families. Thus for the last three decades I’ve...
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Obscene profits
February 3, 2006Wonder how so much of your paycheck gets siphoned off at the gas pump or burned up heating your home? Wonder no more … this week energy giant ExxonMobil announced record profits of over $36 billion...
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Coretta Scott King
February 3, 2006The grainy black and white television footage and still photographs capture only a snippet of the struggle of millions symbolized by the First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement, Coretta Scott King. A political thinker and...
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Oprah takes Bush to woodshed. Rips president over WMD fibs
February 3, 2006Talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s vengeful side was very much on display as she used her popular TV program to take President George W. Bush to the woodshed over falsehoods about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass...
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