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Spengler on Iran's Future -- Bleak and Desparate

M. Simon points to an Asia Times piece about Iran by "Spengler."...efforts to isolate Iran from the cultural degradation of the American "great Satan" have produced social pathologies worse than those...

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Girls Rock A Giant Piano

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A Look at the Af/Pak Adventure

This short piece by Carlo Cristofori in Counter Punch looks at the Afghan/Pakistan/Pashtun/Taliban Conflict through a different lens than most. Simply stated, the Pashtuns predate either of the two...

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La Raza Fights Racism

Via Group News Blog we have this. I'm doing the same as Maggi Jochild, copying the message in toto.The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court was an historic and proud moment for...

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Single Payer Alone is Not the Best Option

Maggie Mahar changed my mind about the single-payer option.I still have a bad attitude about private insurance, but not as bad as it was.We have no way of knowing who will be the majority leaders in...

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Susan Boyles -- "Memories" Semi-Final & "I Have a Deam" Final

This time the video is widely available.This woman's gentle influence is a blessing to behold. Despite a clear rough opening she made a graceful recovery and finished well. And the judges were for the...

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Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009)

Dr. George Tiller was assassinated yesterday at the church where he and his wife attended. He was one of a handful of physicians known to provide what has come to be called "late term abortions."...

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Art against the Iraq war - Bitter Fruits

This is from Leila Abu-Saba's blog. Laura McCallum, a sculptor and teacher in Brooklyn, NY, began a project six years ago to draw a tiny image in honor of each American killed in the Iraq war. The...

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Health Care Fantasy -- The Public Option

When I studied the actual plans for health care reform in the Congressional pipeline I was disappointed. It is clear that the insurance industry is so firmly entrenched in Washington politics that any...

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Launch! Healogica--Clinical Trials Recrutiment service

Ever wonder how people getting treated by "experimental" drugs or procedures get selected?I often wonder, should I become stricken with some arcane condition, how I would find out ALL my options,...

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Whippin' Up the Base Until it Forms Stiff Peaks

No way to capture the full experience of visiting this blog.It's like taking your grandchildren to Chuck-E-Cheese.You'll never know what it's like til you do it. And don't skip the comments thread.

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MedPAC -- Technocrats only a Policy Wonk can Love

Like children at an Easter egg hunt, our elected representatives have been looking for the bestest egg of all, the one with real chocolate candy instead of one or two gummy bears. After sniffing around...

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Glimpses of Peter Oakley (geriatric 1927)

The recent experience of Susan Boyle's overnight explosive success was overwhelming and last I heard she is convalescing somewhere, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. I was reminded of Peter Oakley...

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Greg Djerejian on Obama's Cairo Speech

Belgravia Dispatch emerges from an extended hiatus for a don't-miss commentary. Djerejian is a very smart man with diplomacy in his DNA. If he says something is okay I feel better already. And Obama...

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Mark Lynch on the Cairo Speech

The Aardvark has been on my blogroll for a long time.He is a man of many words but also very smart. When he says something is worth quoting, believe it.Israelis and Palestinians. I'm still struggling...

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Iran's Presidential Election is Next Week

Results of next week's presidential election are important to US-Iran relations and determining what Washington's next moves will be in that part of the world. Although Iran's form of government is not...

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Looking at Lebanon After Yesterday's Elections

Lebanese politics is a form of representative democracy, but nothing like what Americans imagine when they read those words. I have been following events in that part of the world since before I...

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Health Care Insurance Commentary

Found at Old Jews Telling Jokes...►This is a dirty joke, so those who are offended by dirty jokes should skip this video.◄

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Canadian Health Care Myths

Via Common Deams/ Denver Post / Ron BeasleyAs America comes to grips with the reality that changes are desperately needed within its health care infrastructure, it might prove useful to first debunk...

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Hiatus

Blogging will be light until June 23.I have too many care giving assignments to do more than read comments and stay current.

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