Sam Webb
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Webb
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U.S.
It takes a fight to win
August 24, 2009It seems clear that the prospects for a bipartisan health care bill are diminishing with each passing day. And as far as I'm concerned that is a good thing. Nothing good, nothing resembling "reform" could come...
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Opinion
Health care reform and criticism of weapons
August 21, 2009I spoke last weekend at a public library in Blue Hill, a small coastal town in Maine. Most in the audience worked and voted for President Obama, but in the course of what was a very...
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Opinion
It’s time to put the pedal to the metal
July 31, 2009In recent weeks I have seen pundits of various stripes grading the job performance of our new president. I read some of them and they invariably left me with a nagging feeling which I couldn't quite...
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The ‘Skip’ Gates arrest: Racism is more than an attitude
July 29, 2009The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, not far from the racial profiling incident of Henry Louis Gates that triggered a national conversation on race and racism, and, being a bit...
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COMMENTARY Challenging Morning Joe on health care
July 22, 2009Sometimes don't you fantasize about jumping through the TV onto a talk show set? Well, I did exactly that this Monday morning while watching MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' (Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman).
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Opinion
COMMENTARY The mentality of marginalization
July 19, 2009Because of McCarthyism, the Cold War, the long economic expansion following WW II, and a resistence to think anew, the Left has been on the edges of politics for more than a half century. During this...
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Opinion
Is the economic crisis over?
July 10, 2009Beware of talk of better economic times around the corner. We may be over the worst of it; we may have avoided a 1930s-type depression; but it’s quite another thing to suggest that we are on...
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Opinion
An end to violence
July 9, 2009Against the background of the bloodiest century in human history and this decade of war, genocide, boycotts, and threats and counter threats, thanks in large measure to the Bush administration and, in a larger sense, our...
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