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Campaigns should be about real issues

Submitted by findingavoice on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 6:44am.

FINDING A VOICE by Ann Davidow

 

In a political environment where complexities are whittled down to sound-byte size, elections sometimes turn on currying favor with a media more intrigued by conflict than the motivating force behind it - - where fluff trumps substance and attacks on a spouse sometimes assume greater importance than the workings of government.

It is said Republicans will make an issue of Michelle Obama's comment that ‘for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country', although as she later explained her special sense of pride was due to the fac

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Christmas 2007: Amazing Grace

Submitted by mark karlin on Tue, 12/25/2007 - 6:52am.

William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce Advocates for the Abolition of the British Slave Trade in the Film "Amazing Grace"

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

It might come as a surprise to non-history majors that American slavery was a legacy of our nation's years as a colonial outpost of the British Empire.

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Burma, Darfur and Democracy -- The Bush Betrayal

Submitted by mark karlin on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 6:30am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

None other than Alan Greenspan, touting his recent book, said once again what we all know: the Iraq War – as the Iran War will be – is primarily about oil.

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Throwing Congressional Tantrums Won't Keep the Bush Administration from Its Domestic Spying for Political Purposes

Submitted by mark karlin on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 7:31am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

It hasn’t taken much courage to go out on a limb, as we did in our BuzzFlash editorial yesterday, to claim that the Bush Administration is almost certainly amassing its illegal and legal domestic spying powers for primarily partisan purposes.

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Bush Administration Has Been Using Illegal Wiretapping and Spying Activity for Political Purposes. Doubt It?

Submitted by mark karlin on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 8:01am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

In an under covered trial in a California courtroom, a Constitutional drama of major significance is unfolding.

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Is Mitt Romney Brainwashing Us?

Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 11:20am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

According to the headline on an AP story, Mitt Romney claims that his Iowa "straw poll victory" wasn’t "hollow," which would distinguish a turnout so low that it wouldn’t fill a megachurch from the hollow candidate himself.

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When Will America Awaken from "The Bush Ultimatum"?

Submitted by mark karlin on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 7:49am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

If you don’t like a thinking-person’s action film or don’t want to know some of the details of the just-released "The Bourne Ultimatum," then stop reading here.

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Living in the Weimar Republic of America

Submitted by mark karlin on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 11:38am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

It's become a bit of a cliché to compare the rise of Cheney-Bush fascism to the ascendancy of the Third Reich, but the analogy does reveal a fundamental truth about power and politics.

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Dems in Congress Once Again Enable Bush and Cheney to Spy on Us: The GOP Three-Pronged Effort to Permanently Control America

Submitted by mark karlin on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 2:08pm.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

It’s a roller-coaster ride that we all can’t seem to get off of.

Just when the Dems at least are talking tough (even if they aren’t acting tough), they let Bush and Cheney intimidate them into giving them more spying powers. This appears incomprehensible for a number of reasons, including the repeated illegal use of spying powers by the Bush Administration, perjury concerning that activity, and the generally accepted knowledge that the enhanced spying powers are meant for partisan purposes, not for fighting terrorism.

Can’t the Democrats just say "no," as in "Sorry, you have proven that you can’t be trusted with increased spying powers, in fact you are still failing to fully inform Congress and the American people about the illegal spying you have conducted in the past and are still, apparently, conducting"?

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Married to the Mob: Only Impeachment Will Get America a Divorce

Submitted by mark karlin on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 11:07am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Last week, we were watching the original "Godfather" film on cable television, and – being BuzzFlash – we couldn’t keep our head from popping with political analogies.

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