[One must be a bit skeptical about Bush's offers of help to distressed people, as the delivery of aid has been too often delayed or forgotten. The Katrina...
[One of the frustrating features in trying to figure the distress of those out of work in the U.S. is that our American stats (unlike other countries) only...
http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts08312007.html August 31, 2007 Executive Rampage The War Criminal in the Living Room By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The media is...
I too oppose the idea of an attack on Iran, I think it would be foolish, but Roberts has some fantasies of his own. The problem in Iraq is not that Muslims...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/31/haditha.video/ is an Iraqi town lying along the Euphrates river in which a...
[PFAW (People for the American Way) is the Protestant equivalent of the ACLU -- a good list from which to get information such as the following. Interesting...
We have a number of gay friends who have maintained life long committed relationships. We also have had (sadly) a number of heterosexual friends whose...
This is all very well, but at heart you too are a dictator. Someone who has reservations about late abortions is in your book a fascist, and a woman baking an...
Sorry Ed, but I think that you are misunderstanding the situation. Your Gay friends who are in lifelong committed relationships live in communities where such...
Rohit, are you smoking something? Or maybe an excess of sun? Best, Ed ... -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate...
Edward, our gay friends live in NYC, our building in Manhattan, work closely with my wife in politics, teach in our universities -- all openly gay -- several...
[And some say the 'surge' is working? Ed Kent] FOCUS | Civilian Death Toll in Iraq Climbs http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090107Y.shtml Reuters reports that...
[A member of the Israel_Palestine list who has just joined the Peace Efforts group posted three articles that indicate that a major conflict between Israel and...
[One has to wonder how much Saudi money is being directed to al Qaeda? Lest we forget, Saudi Arabia is bin Laden's home country to which Bush speeded his...
In a message dated 01/09/07 15:34:56 GMT Daylight Time, rohitcuny@... ... McD: It is none of the USA's business. . ... McD: Ed & Roberts get that right. ....
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The issue of sex is complex and cannot easily be reduced to the formula "conservatives are homophobic, liberals are good." For instance, the Republicans went...
"Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, “The policy was to keep...
Can the Mortgage Crisis Swallow a Town? By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ At current rates, analysts expect foreclosure filings to hit a rate approaching heights not seen...
... Bush was a 'C' student at Yale where he was presumably admitted as one of its "favored forty" (dumb rich kids that Yale used to admit because of their...
Thank you Rohit for explaining at the end of the piece why there is so much extremism in America, and why those of us from the Old World have so many problems...
Harold Levy is one of our building neighbors and one of the most effective school chancellors that NYC has had. He navigated through the political shoals...
There are times when you do talk a load of rubbish when you get onto the topic of theology. You are perfectly entitled to your views. That does not mean that...
I apologize to Ed Kent for the fact that this item does not fall into his standard, "Left good, right bad" dichotomy. There are other things going on in the...
... wrote: Ours each left before the end of Bank St.'s terminal 8th grade to enter Horace Mann, the best of the college preps in NYC at the time. There they...
Edward, Some Christians are hung up on homosexuality because of a terribly flawed heritage. I asked one of our American experts at UTS about this and he...
From the same site from which you cited: "Back in February 2004, I was in Boston, visiting a Democratic strategist named Mary Anne Marsh. She was spinning me...
And your point is? Edward ... From: CollegeConversation@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CollegeConversation@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ed Kent Sent: Sunday,...
Of course Ed has the same arrogance about the Americans as leaders of the free world as Stuart has. It is important that we get rid of discrimination against...
In a message dated 31/08/07 22:17:05 GMT Daylight Time, ... as his ... McD: No, Brown realises he would most likely lose & then he will hardly have been the...
