Archive for August, 2007


29
Aug

Remembering Katrina, Surviving The Debt Hurricane

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29
Aug

KATRINA: LOOKING BACK IN ANGER

Its been two years. Democracy Now recapped: “The storm made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29, 2005. The powerful hurricane ravaged the Gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and left over 1,600 people dead. More than 300,000 homes were destroyed and over 770,000 people displaced. It was the most powerful […]


29
Aug

The Great GOP Bathroom Scandal, A Rebbe’s View

RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW ON THE GOP BATHROOM SCANDAL
Why are plains-clothes cops posted in airport bathrooms to arrest men who “solicit sex”? Are there plain-clothes cops in the airport cocktail lounges arresting heterosexual couples if one of them taps the other’s leg, with the other’s consent?
Is the cop there to protect unwilling men from being […]

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