Woodchip Gazette

Hunting the Wrong Beast

2012-01-10T11:19:00.001-08:00

Once again, Woodchip Gazette, unscrambles what Pope Benedict XVI really said and not about homosexual families. [ READ ]

The Fetish of Individualism Strikes Again

2011-12-18T10:52:00.000-08:00

Woodchip takes issue with Wedge Issues in the Occupy Movement. [ HERE ]

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Blundering Goons Strike Again

2011-11-20T12:41:00.001-08:00

Chipster takes account of the culture of brutality that passes for constabulary performance in the United States. [READ ]

Nothing But a Revolution can save Us, Part III -- The Theology of 99 Percent

2011-11-17T19:13:00.000-08:00

In the third and final woodchip on the Occupy Movement, chipsters focus on the medieval theology that animates the protests. [ READ ]

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Nothing but a Revolution can save Us, Part II ... Applying Plaster to Rot

2011-11-07T12:00:00.000-08:00

In Part II, of Woodchip's analysis of the OWS movement, the historical cycles of generation and decay are examined. [ READ ]

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Our Daily Belt

2011-11-04T12:44:00.000-07:00

Chipsters add their two-chips worth on the judicial belting of a miscreating daughter. [READ ]

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Flash-Banging the Right to Peaceably Assemble

2011-10-28T12:38:00.000-07:00

The Gazette summarizes the events in Oakland leading up to the firing at unarmed, peaceable protestors. [ READ ]

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Piecing Together the Confusion

2011-10-27T10:38:00.000-07:00

Chipsters ponder the piecing together of chips of a fresco and what it all might and did mean [ READ ]

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Half a Percent for Ninety Nine Percent

2011-10-26T19:13:00.000-07:00

A Woodchip Analysis of President Obama's latest electoral moves by executive order. [READ]

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Confluence and Coincidence -- the Calculus of 99 Percent

2011-10-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

Chipster ponders War and Peace and soothsay the movement(s) of the 99 percent. [ READ ]

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Peeking into the GOP Cave

2011-10-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

Chipster pokes his nose into a debate. [READ]

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The Silence of the Shams

2011-10-18T05:37:00.001-07:00

Chipsters poke around to see what, if anything, Democratic senators have to say about the Occupy Wall Street protests. [READ]

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Does Research Make You Stupid?

2011-10-10T21:19:00.000-07:00

While munching acorns, chipsters sound off against another "health study". [ READ ]
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Bank of America versus America the Beautiful

2011-10-04T12:29:00.000-07:00

Chipsters discuss Bankster Avarice and the need to bring back the concept of Sin into public discourse. [ READ ]

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We Have Met the Enemy and We is Stuck

2011-09-11T10:30:00.000-07:00

Chipsters reluctantly reflect on an event. [ READ ]

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Obama's Trojan Horse

2011-09-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette distills the poison in Obama's new Jobs Pill. [ READ ]

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Flighting for Freedom

2011-09-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

On the capture of a cow [ READ ]

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Transparency

2011-08-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette takes note of the War for Chaos and Control of Libya's Assets. [READ]

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Transparency

2011-08-26T20:28:00.000-07:00

A Woodchip Analysis of what's -- transparently -- at issue in Libya. [ READ ]

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Bring Back The Bull Moose!

2011-08-16T08:30:00.000-07:00

Woodchip discovers a long lost speech that points to our unfinished future. [ READ ]

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Fauxbama Strikes Again

2011-07-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

Woodchip cuts through the legerdemain to reveal the trickery and unfairness of Obama's shared budget sacrifices. [ READ ]

Mining, Harvesting and Civic Carcinogens

2011-06-15T10:15:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette discusses how U.S. national security policies undermine civil society at home and abroad. [ READ ]

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The Indignation in Spain...

2011-05-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

Woodchip discusses the protests and elections in Spain, as well as the lines being drawn around the world in the global economy. [ READ ]

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The Queen's Speech

2011-05-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

Chipsters ponder the Queen's visit to Ireland and the work of her speech. [READ]

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Cinco de Mayo -- A Poor Excuse for a Party

2011-05-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette takes note of the historical misconceptions surrounding Mexico's alleged liberation from the French. [ READ ]

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A True National Security Moment

2011-05-02T14:22:00.000-07:00

Chipsters discuss the real significance of Bin Laden's "boating accident at sea" [ READ ]

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A Republic, You Say?

2011-04-29T12:43:00.000-07:00

Chipsters discuss the advantages of monarchy versus monarchy. [ READ ]

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Knock, Knock -- It's the I.M.F. ...

2011-04-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

Chipsters explain the I.M.F's concepts of inputs and outputs. [ READ ]

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Confining Manning & Falling into the Outer Darkness

2011-03-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

Once again, Woodchippers examine the implications of solitary confinement on our constitutional universe and how the depersonalizing of one dehumanizes all. [ READ ]

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Folly on the Nile & The Calculus of History

2011-02-01T11:01:00.001-08:00

Woodchip examines what Tolstoy and Machiavelli would have a said about the "unrest" spreading throughout the Arab world. [READ]

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Earth & Sky -- An Historical Obituary for Bishop Ruiz of Chiapas

2011-01-31T18:55:00.000-08:00

On the death of Samuel Ruiz, bishop of Chiapas, Woodchip uses the occasion to examine the history of Church activism in Hispanic America, to reflect on the antecedents of Liberation Theology and to think about the questions the Zapatista peasant movement would have us ask. [READ]

The Bezerkeley Gypsy and The Hysteria of Impotence

2011-01-20T10:33:00.000-08:00

Woodchips ponders the impotence of the Left. [READ]

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The Wrong Type of Climate Control -- The Risks of Free Speech

2011-01-10T15:16:00.001-08:00

Once again, Woodchip Gazette warns against trying to make speech "safe" and recalls James Madison to remind us that freedom always entails risks... [READ]

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The Return of the Oubliette - Sado Justice in America

2010-12-30T12:08:00.000-08:00

The use of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation and its effect on both humans and on the rule of constitutional law is examined. [ READ ]

Bolivia's Bill of Rights for Mother Earth

2010-12-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

Woodchip discusses Bolivia's new law granting rights to Mother Earth and its radical "un-inversion" of the individualistic, utilitarian paradigm of modern Liberalism. [READ]

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Wiki Witch Hunt Reveals True Face of Government

2010-12-07T13:15:00.000-08:00

Woodchips discusses what the witch hunt against WikiLeaks reveals about the Government's plan to reinstate sedition laws by criminalizing the possession of information that puts alleged governmental interests "at risk". [ READ ]

NIPP & CIKR - Whom the Gods would Destroy

2010-12-05T22:40:00.000-08:00

Woodchip Gazette examines the latest, and only significant, Wikileak which indicates the psychotic derrangement of a United States Government which literally knows no bounds and lays claim to the world. [ read ]

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Black Friday and Purple Sunday

2010-12-05T09:45:00.000-08:00

Chipsters ponder two incompatible approaches toward the Season. [ read ]

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Woodchips' People Friendly Balance Budget

2010-11-14T14:13:00.000-08:00

Chipsters solve the Balanced Budget "problem" without touching a hair off the head of Social Security or Medicare. Chew cud Simpson! [ here ]

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In Remembrance of Armistice Day

2010-11-11T23:32:00.000-08:00

Woodchips ponders the meaning and corruption of Armistice Day. [ read ]

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Pope Consecrates Gaudí's Fantasy

2010-11-07T09:03:00.000-08:00

Gaudí's Basilica of the Sacred Family is dedicated, 128 years after cornerstone first laid. [ read ]

Stop Goofing Around

2010-11-06T21:25:00.000-07:00

Chipsters have some serious advice for Congress [ here ]

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God's Dachshund, Part VII - Tacit Corrections

2010-11-03T23:29:00.000-07:00

The Woodchip Gazette ponders some curious remarks by Pope Benedict on the confusing effects of alternative manifestations of marriage. [ read ]

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Of Probabilities and Punishment

2010-10-16T12:16:00.001-07:00

The Woodchip Gazette publishes its long awaited Anti-Endorsement for the upcoming elections. [ read ]

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A Resented Day of Triumph

2010-10-12T09:45:00.000-07:00

"Columbus Day" is assessed from an Hispanic perspective. [ read ]

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Terrorism Before the IBM 8088

2010-10-06T23:53:00.000-07:00

Chipsters reflect on what it takes to combat terrorism in the Days After the Jackal. [ Read ]

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Bow, Bow to the Daughter in Law Elect

2010-10-02T18:46:00.000-07:00

Chipsters discuss the Politically Incorrect response to Tyler Clementi's sad suicide. [ read ]

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God's Dachshund, Part VI - Kulturkampf Redux

2010-09-26T21:19:00.000-07:00

Woodchipgazette analyses Pope Benedict's trip to the United Kingdom and his arguments against an "aggressive secularism" that seeks to delimit Church participation in the formulaiton of public policy. [ here ]

Social Basics

2010-09-06T09:16:00.000-07:00

A need to stimulate Obama's socio-economic vision. [here]

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The Devil in the Drone

2010-09-05T11:58:00.000-07:00

Progressives miss the real story behind U.S. Border Drones. [ here ]

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Senator Simpson and Bovine Body Parts

2010-08-26T09:18:00.001-07:00

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Obambi Tuffs it Out

2010-08-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

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Another Pyrrhic Obamacrat Victory

2010-08-11T09:39:00.000-07:00

Using blackmail to close party ranks in Colorado [ here ]

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Disconnects Redux

2010-08-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette's "Travel Section" examines Eleanor and Michelle's two very different itineraries [ here ]

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WikiLeaks and the Divided Line

2010-07-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

Chipsters ponder how it is we "know" things (or don't know them) and fondly remember I. F. Stone's insights and wit [ here ]

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Connecting with Tar Baby & Disconnecting from Reality

2010-07-17T21:02:00.000-07:00

The Gazette explains the true imbecility of the Tea Bagger assault on Obama [ here ].

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Mexico's Criminal Revolution

2010-07-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

Chipsters ponder the revolution underway in Mexico [ here ]

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Discconnects and the Guilty Conscience

2010-06-27T15:32:00.000-07:00

Chipsters ponder the 1 billion dollar disconnect at Toronto [here]

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The Pied Piper of Psychosis

2010-06-02T19:53:00.000-07:00

The Gazette reports on the psychosis at work in Israel's increasingly un-hinged attempts to accuse the world for the mistakes of its policies. [here]

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Engineering A Humanitarian Crisis

2010-05-29T12:43:00.000-07:00

A relief convey is steaming toward Gaza bringing desperately needed foodstuffs to the imprisoned population. The New York Times does not report on this event because to do so would trigger awareness of that the fact that Israel has embarked on a policy of holding Gazans hostage to hunger. Woodchip reports [ here ]

New York Times Scoops Pentagon Strategy of Security through Chaos

2010-05-25T20:39:00.000-07:00

Woodchipgazette lauds the New York Times for scooping what the war in Iraq (and Af-Pakistan, and Yemen and Georgia and Yugoslavia and ....) is all about. [here]

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Rand, Rachel and the Heart of Atlanta

2010-05-23T20:33:00.000-07:00

Woodchip Gazette takes a look back at Ollie's Barbecue, Robinson Crusoe and other arcana of current interest. [ here ]

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Mainstream Media Catches on to Government's Plan to Wreck Your Son's Brain

2010-05-18T18:20:00.000-07:00

Two years ago the WoodchipGazette explained how the theological concept of synderesis foretold the psychological "costs" of the Bush (and now Obama) policies of waging "asymmetrical warfare" in far off lands. "Frontline" brings up the rear [here]

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Lies in the Service of Neo Liberal Villainy

2010-05-16T14:08:00.000-07:00

The WoodchipGazette examines how the neo-liberal press creates false news in order to discredit and undermine the Catholic Church which offers a spirtitual and social alternative to the atomization and materialization of human existence. [here]

How the New York Times Wages War on Catholicism

2010-05-15T21:55:00.000-07:00

Chipsters dissect how the New York Times manipulates news to wage war on the Catholic Church. [here]

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Easter

2010-04-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

Woodchip ponders the paradox of nature [ here ]

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Youth, Happiness & Old Age

2010-03-22T22:26:00.000-07:00

Thoughts on a moment [here]
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Auto Reconquista

2010-02-20T18:09:00.000-08:00

Hugo Chavez leads an Hispanic American effort to create an international phalanx against U.S. and Canadian hegemony and exploitation. [ here ]

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The Pathos of Plastic Surgery

2010-02-15T00:37:00.000-08:00

Chipster & Architect Daniel Liebeskind discuss the questionable art of putting things back the way they were [ here ]

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Obama's State of Obama Speech

2010-01-26T10:45:00.000-08:00

Woodchips discusses the State of the Union Address before it happens [ here ]

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Big Food Devours America's Children

2010-01-22T23:58:00.000-08:00

A special News and Note takes a brief look at how Big Food is devouring America's children [ here ]

Bring Back the People's Witan

2010-01-21T18:54:00.000-08:00

Woodchips on why the U.S. Senate is a perversion of democracy and needs to be abolished [ here ]

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Promoting Self Alienation

2010-01-20T22:39:00.001-08:00

The Gazette discusses the role of the corporate-bagging press in promoting self-alienation. [ here ]

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Vote to Punish & Face the Dawn

2010-01-18T19:07:00.001-08:00

The Woodchip Gazette explains why Martha Coakley.... and Barbara Boxer and... every other Democrat officeholder needs to be defeated. [ here ]

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A Dream for Elena

2010-01-17T10:47:00.000-08:00

Even chipsters dream [ here ]

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Leader at the Eleventh Hour

2010-01-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

On Obama's hard working efforts to hammer out a health bill after the bill was hammered to death [ here ]

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An Apparent Economy

2010-01-14T11:17:00.000-08:00

The Gazette discusses the relevance of astronomy to economics and explains how recession means we are becoming richer while getting poorer [ here ]

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A Second Bill of Rights

2010-01-12T21:59:00.001-08:00

Latest breaking news on the frontier of human rights [here]

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Fathomable Contexts

2010-01-12T08:33:00.000-08:00

Some idle thoughts about Oliver Stone's new documentary putting Hitler, Stalin and miscellaneous monsters into understandable context [here]

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Oh, Those Wacky Keystone Prosecutors

2010-01-02T23:30:00.002-08:00

Another "boating accident" in Washington [ here ] as Judge Urbino dismisses the Government's case against Blackwater guards for unauthorized homicide.

Obama's Jihad - Part II, Defending Zones of Democratic Freedom

2009-12-29T08:07:00.000-08:00

President Obama's claims of just war and his continuation of Bush's neocon foreign policy are examined [ here ]
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Occluding the Season

2009-12-21T17:04:00.000-08:00

The Gazette discusses the erection of symbols on our national lawn. [here]

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Obama's Jihad - Part I The Deceit of a Just War

2009-12-13T21:22:00.000-08:00

The first of a two part feature examining President Obama's apologia for a just war. [ here ]
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What Happens when Quislings Go Home?

2009-11-07T07:48:00.000-08:00

Abbas' resignation spoils Israel's party. [ here ]

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Face It ...

2009-09-28T10:56:00.000-07:00

Oh the alternatives! [here]

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Insinews

2009-09-25T12:04:00.000-07:00

Tha latest insinuation against Iran passing itself off as news. [ here ]
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Qui Quibus

2009-09-19T11:52:00.000-07:00

The New York Times rushes to make a point [ here ]

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Obama's Neo Trickledown

2009-09-10T20:12:00.000-07:00

The Gazette discovers the secret of President Obama's economic policies [here]

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Obama's Neo-Trickledown

2009-09-10T11:46:00.000-07:00

The Gazette analyses Obama's health care proposals and discoveres the essence of his political economy [here]
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Wussiecrats & Womans

2009-09-09T18:43:00.000-07:00

On the eve of the president's address to Congress, the Gazette ponders two historical analogies. [here]
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Surf's Up in the Economy!!

2009-09-02T11:13:00.000-07:00

The Gazette analyses today's economic good news. [here]

Fauxbama

2009-08-27T10:59:00.000-07:00

The Gazette breaks its silence on President Obama's record [ here ]
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The Passing Allure of Promise

2009-08-26T10:47:00.000-07:00

On the death of Senator Kennedy [ here ]
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Inching Toward Soylent Colourful

2009-07-19T11:52:00.000-07:00

Woodchipgazette scoups high level prognosis for the economy [ here ]
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A Curious Frog on the Pond

2009-05-29T19:09:00.000-07:00

Some froggies get all the flies [ here ]

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Palestinian Peace Process Dead

2009-05-19T11:33:00.000-07:00

Israel's Prime Minister tells Obama that Israel is willing to give the Palestinians everything they have now if they will recognize Israel as state where Palestinians don't belong. [ here ]

A Debate Not Needed

2009-05-17T22:37:00.000-07:00

Comment on Obama's clarion call at Notre Dame [ here ]
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Pope's Trip to Kanossa Unmitigated Disaster for Church

2009-05-16T22:21:00.001-07:00

The Gazette comments on the injury to the Church and to Christian identity resulting from Pope Benedict's ill advised trip to Israel [ here ]

El Sink-Oh de May-Oh

2009-05-05T17:11:00.000-07:00

El Chipsoacotacl discusses how the triumph of a faction created a false Mexican Identity [ here ]

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Famous Headlines

2009-04-23T19:48:00.000-07:00

Encapsulating idiocy. [ here ]

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