Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Aristocracy of the "Democratic" Party

More of the same from the Washington set was made clear to me last night when I found out what “superdelegates” are.

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Health Care Costs

Why not a single-payor, national, universal health-care system?

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Speech by Obama at Ebenezer Church

This is a speech given yesterday (Jan. 20, ’08) by Senator Barack Obama at the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, the church where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached.

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Movie Review: The Great Debaters

Saturday Heather and I watched The Great Debaters, a show produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Denzel Washington based on the actual 1935 debate team from then-exclusively black Wiley College in east Texas who did so well locally and … Continue reading

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If I were a consipiracy theorist

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would have a field day with the Bush administration, asserting that it’s all about the money. Here’s what I would say:

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Sicko the movie

Last night I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s film about the U.S. healthcare system. I’ll give you some time . . .OK, now that you’ve recovered from the mention of the hated film-maker, can we move on? It was a movie … Continue reading

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