rhymeswithright.mu.nu - 3/12/2009
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It was the day after Columbine, and a student asked what I would do if a gunman entered our school. My answer was that I would try to get my students out safely even at the cost of taking...
Sacrifice
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/25/2009 —
Apparently Chuck Todd asked President Obama why he isn’t asking people to “sacrifice” more amidst the recession.
The standard progressive answer to this starts by observing that the hundreds of thousands of people who are ...
Sacrifice
washingtonmonthly.com 3/25/2009 — SACRIFICE.... The strangest question from President Obama's press conference last night came by way of NBC News' Chuck Todd. Twelve hours later, I'm still not sure what he was thinking. "Some have compared this financial crisis to a war, and...
Sacrifice, bitches
balloon-juice.com 3/25/2009 — A few weeks ago we wrote :
Look for the “sacrifice” meme to become even stronger now that we’re in a recession (after all, everyone knows that if consumers would just stop buying stuff, the economy would be fine).
Today, ...
Who’s Sorry Now?
mahablog.com 4/4/2009 — Joe Conason has written some good articles at Salon lately, but Conason’s most recent article actually made me cry .
Like most of their continental neighbors, the nations of the north [i.e., north Europe, esp. Scandinavia] provide free or highly subsidized, high-quality child care that ...
Why We Need Germany
brusselsjournal.com 4/27/2009 — I’m tired of people who are busy losing this world war because they are still obsessed with the previous one, which ended generations ago. Anti-Nazism has mutated into a permanent witch-hunt on an imaginary enemy. The notion that “neo-Nazis” ...
BBC NEWS | Europe | German school gunman 'kills 15'
news.bbc.co.uk 3/11/2009 — Fifteen people have been killed by a teenage gunman who went on a rampage in south-west Germany, officials say. Among the dead were nine pupils, eight of them girls, and three teachers at the Albertville secondary school in the town of Winnenden, ...
Germany Is Concerned About Pakistan
outsidethebeltway.com 4/24/2009 — Germany is concerned about the Taliban fighters nearing Pakistan’s Islamabad capital:
BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) - Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan’s capital and urged the government ...
Obama's Strategy and the Summits
stratfor.com 4/7/2009 — The weeklong extravaganza of G-20, NATO, EU, U.S. and Turkey meetings has almost ended. The spin emerging from the meetings, echoed in most of the media, sought to portray the meetings as a success and as reflecting a re-emergence of trans-Atlantic ...
Massacre In Germany Could Fast-Track Tighter EU Gun Controls - With Video
patdollard.com 3/11/2009 —
Bild :
Gunman shot by police after massacre in Germany
A school shooting bloodbath near Stuttgart in Germany has left at least 15 people dead - with the gunman killing himself after an exchange of fire with the police.
He shot himself in the head in the parking lot of a car dealership ...
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