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I’ve never understood why the far right talk show demagogues, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and any number of others, along with their followers, the ditto-heads, call President Obama a socialist. Have you? For don’t we know, haven’t we known for a long time, that modern, developed nations including the United States are all in good part [...]

We moved to Tampa about one year ago. “About,” because we moved in stages while waiting for our possessions to make their trip south, actually four of them, down from Massachusetts, and during the move we were living off and on in our son’s home in Tampa while the house we had purchased, now just [...]

So how can James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, know that if we burn even half of Earth’s remaining fossil fuels we will destroy the planet? Dr. James Hansen (writing in the Huffington Post of July 9):  “It looks as if the delegates from other nations may have done what [...]

The forcing of freedom on others may or may not have begun with the French Revolution. But it’s been going on ever since. George Bush made it the highlight of his presidency and never seemed to understand that it couldn’t be done. Why, he would say to himself, doesn’t everyone want to be free? Well [...]

—–Message d’origine—– De : Philip Waring à Tampa Envoyé : samedi 18 avril 2009 16:06 À : Eric Degardin à Paris Objet : Twitter? Eric, Twittering does seem like a good way to keep in touch. Do you twitter?  I know you do FaceBook, where that question, “What are you doing now?” (or is it what’s on our mind? [...]

In some ways nothing has changed. The overriding political issue of our time, as it was in the times of the French and Russian revolutions, is that the few have a lot, and the many a little. (And it’s probably even more true in Russia today.) We know that only when these two camps seem [...]