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Monthly Archives: September 2011
‘Peak Oil’ Takes A Deadly Blow
Saving Civic Culture From On-Line Mayhem
BY FROMA HARROP INDIANAPOLIS – More speech is not necessarily a positive development. News sites’ online forums have unleashed speech in quantity, for sure. But they’ve given a stage to swarms of moronic insults and outright lies, most cloaked in anonymity or false identities. Such comments waste our time – but of larger concern, they […]
The GOP Congress Hates [Except When It Loves] Federal Spending
BY JIM HIGHTOWER “You saw the House act,” Rep. Eric Cantor snapped to a reporter last Friday. Yeah, act like a petulant 4-year-old! The majority leader of the GOP-controlled House has long been a whiney ideological brat who stamps his tiny feet in peevish anger whenever he can’t get his way on legislation. In this […]
Traffic, Again
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Traffic, again. Or maybe I should say very light traffic. This is the second time in recent months that we in Southern California have been warned of traffic nightmares because the president is coming to town. And those warnings are nothing compared to the ones we received during last summer’s “Carmageddon,” in […]