24 February 2009
Kids for cash
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Robert Koehler
A number of bad ideas and virulent trends in American life converge, it seems to me, in the unfolding scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., known as “kids for cash.”

The blurring of the line that separates profit from state,...
22 February 2009
Washington & Lafayette get stoned & talk marriage
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"Thomas Paine"
I publish this opening passage from PASSIONS OF THE PATRIOTS in honor of George's birthday. Of course, I knew him well. Happy Birthday, George..."Thomas Paine"

George Washington wrapped himself around the young...
19 February 2009
Cross of irony
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Robert Koehler
“Down the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and...
18 February 2009
Perriello, peace and justice
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David Swanson
Peace and justice activists in Virginia's Fifth District were thrilled last November when we and our neighbors replaced Congressman Virgil Goode with Tom Perriello. We got together and held a couple of meetings to discuss what we might...
15 February 2009
Bob Fitrakis remembers Cornell McCleary
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Bob Fitrakis
Former Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism Board Chair and community activist Cornell McCleary died February 11 at the age of 55. Cornell recruited me to run for the NAACP Board in the early 1990s. He was one of the few black...
12 February 2009
Truth and healing
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Robert Koehler
Can we find ideas — political ideas — big enough to be worthy of this moment?

You know, before the cynicism and the disappointment and the recession and the dumbed-down media and, oh yeah, the regrouping Republicans, conspire...

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