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      Category: Politics

      Funnies Hospitality People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views The Honorable Senator from Alabama
      by Mike Cox Funnies Hospitality People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views
      The Honorable Senator from Alabama
      Life News People & Places Politics Talk Views Playing With Fire
      Rodney Dunning (CC)
      by Henry Foresman Life News People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Playing With Fire
      Books Life People & Places Politics Talk Views New Wave Mobsters
      Tom Ferguson ( ©)
      by Tom Ferguson Books Life People & Places Politics Talk Views
      New Wave Mobsters
      Life People & Places Politics Talk Views 100 Years Ago, Frank Little Died for Our Rights. Today, the Struggle Continues.
      by Jaz Brisack Life People & Places Politics Talk Views
      100 Years Ago, Frank Little Died for Our Rights. Today, the Struggle Continues.
      Life News People & Places Politics Talk Views Revenge of the Nerds
      Paul and Cathy Becker (CC)
      by Dave Pruett Life News People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Revenge of the Nerds
      Funnies Life News People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views In a Word, Authentic
      Trevor Irvin (©)
      Trevor Irvin (©)
      by Trevor Stone Irvin Funnies Life News People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views
      In a Word, Authentic
      People & Places Politics Talk Views The Smoking Gun
      by Matt Blakely People & Places Politics Talk Views
      The Smoking Gun
      People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views Make America Great Again
      by David Parker People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views
      Make America Great Again
      People & Places Politics Talk Views The Trump We Know
      Viengchanh (https://tenor.com/view/trump-adolf-gif-7848650)
      by John Hickman People & Places Politics Talk Views
      The Trump We Know
      Hospitality Life People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views The Burden of Being a Southerner
      Haley Nahman (Fair Use)
      by Henry Foresman Hospitality Life People & Places Politics Sights & Sounds Talk Views
      The Burden of Being a Southerner
      Life People & Places Politics Talk Dickering with the Nation's Health Care
      by Louie Crew Clay Life People & Places Politics Talk
      Dickering with the Nation's Health Care
      News People & Places Politics Talk Views U.S. Supreme Court Appeases Donald Trump and His Islamophobic Base
      DonkeyHotey (CC)
      by John Hickman News People & Places Politics Talk Views
      U.S. Supreme Court Appeases Donald Trump and His Islamophobic Base
      Life Politics Talk Views Welfare Queen: The State of Georgia Power
      Tom Ferguson (©)
      by Stephen Wingeier Life Politics Talk Views
      Welfare Queen: The State of Georgia Power
      Life News Politics Talk Views Qatar in 2017, Switzerland in 1938
      by John Hickman Life News Politics Talk Views
      Qatar in 2017, Switzerland in 1938
      Books People & Places Politics Talk Views Aftershock, Robert Reich, a review
      Tom Ferguson (©)
      by Tom Ferguson Books People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Aftershock, Robert Reich, a review
      News People & Places Politics Talk Views Make Democrats Win Again
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      by Matt Blakely News People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Make Democrats Win Again
      Politics Talk Views Back to Basics on School Vouchers
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      by Leon Galis Politics Talk Views
      Back to Basics on School Vouchers
      Hospitality Life People & Places Politics Talk Views Pure Suthun
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      by Louie Crew Clay Hospitality Life People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Pure Suthun
      Life News Politics Talk Views Vogtle Big Bet$ Lotto: Where has all the public’s money gone?
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      by Glenn Carroll Life News Politics Talk Views
      Vogtle Big Bet$ Lotto: Where has all the public’s money gone?
      News Politics Talk Views Our President is "Very, Very Not Smart"
      by Matt Blakely News Politics Talk Views
      Our President is "Very, Very Not Smart"
      Life People & Places Politics Talk Views Americans distinctively thrive under our Bill of Rights
      by Elliott Brack Life People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Americans distinctively thrive under our Bill of Rights
      Politics Talk Views "Don't we need an oath?": Something's Wrong with Homeland Security
      Coast Guard Academy (CC)
      by David Parker Politics Talk Views
      "Don't we need an oath?": Something's Wrong with Homeland Security
      Funnies Life People & Places Politics Talk Views Responding to a Medical Crisis of These Times
      by Louie Crew Clay Funnies Life People & Places Politics Talk Views
      Responding to a Medical Crisis of These Times
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      Levon Helm: A Different Drummer

      Levon Helm: A Different Drummer

      They came screaming out of a dorm window somewhere in 1968 and on the way to some place you had to stop and wonder why someone was playing a fugue. Much less a fugue on a campus. And playing it so frickin'-frackin' loud. Then "Chest Fever" began in earnest, Garth Hudson's church organ lunacy -- I th

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      Lost and Found

      Lost and Found

      It was the slight gap between her front teeth that gave her away and took my breath. I had a feeling when I left home that something special would happen today. So when I saw her coming down the escalator that I was going up, I saw the ghost of Emily, the little girl now grown up and older that I

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      Heritage Inaction

      Heritage Inaction

      For some reason, a letter from the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation was characterized as having been received by NBC News, as if it were some sort of privileged communication. In fact, the thing was a press release and rather obviously designed to change the conversation about the Heritage Fo

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      A Peril of a Carol: Trump Sees Ghosts

      A Peril of a Carol: Trump Sees Ghosts

      Hillary was dead, not dead dead, but dead as a hammer in the world of politics. The Electoral College was dedicated to its duty, and voted according to expectations, with its members then checking themselves into rehab. It was in this world that The Donald lived. High potentate, head banana,

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      God bless the South and Southerners

      God bless the South and Southerners

      The South is known for its unusual characters, right? They populate the novels of Southern writers like Erskine Caldwell, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers. But we Southerners know, don't we, that you don't have to crack one of their books to find such a character's prototype? Often th

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      The monumental Stone Mountain controversy

      The monumental Stone Mountain controversy

      Fifty-two summers ago, Martin Luther King challenged our nation with these words: "Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia." Today, some dream of placing a freedom bell on that mountain. I have another dream today: I have a dream that one fine day a little black boy and a little

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      Along The Dune Line

      Along The Dune Line

      In 1980 I wrote a fifteen-minute film script about a subject most people give little thought to: sand dunes. The stars of this natural history documentary were sea oats, pelicans, shorebirds, and loggerhead sea turtles. The goal? Show people how important sand dunes are to wildlife and man. Because

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      Settlement against for-profit college firm is good for nation

      Settlement against for-profit college firm is good for nation

      Every now and then a big-time civil settlement makes sense and is good for our country. Recently the government brought suit against Education Management Corporation, based in Pittsburgh, Pa., which operated several for-profit colleges. The government maintained that the company was violating

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      Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross

      Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross

      One of the challenges Bertram Gross' book, Friendly Fascism, presents the reader with is this: if your views coincide with those that a major, long-term, well-funded propaganda campaign has aimed to instill, wouldn't it be prudent to reconsider those views? We don't come into this world armed wi

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      Lucky Jim and the Lord God Bird

      Lucky Jim and the Lord God Bird

      Nancy Tanner still lives in the same flat-roofed, three-story house that she and Jim Tanner bought six decades ago, shortly after Jim joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee. The house sits on the knife edge of a ridge in a south Knoxville community appropriately known as Little Switzerlan

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      Republicans are lazy

      Republicans are lazy

      If it's hard, their solution is to just not do it. Maybe it's only Republicans in Georgia that react that way. Jack Kingston, who's now seeking a seat in the United States Senate, the gentleman's club, complained bitterly when the Democractic Speaker of the House decreed that that body would be in s

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      Do Unto Others, Before They...?

      Do Unto Others, Before They...?

      "Blah, blah, blah..., sir." All I really hear is the "sir." It's the cashier at the sparkling new CVS who first catches my ear. "'Course, she's wearing glasses.  Maybe the lenses are fogged over and her vision's obscured," I consider. She's mistaken me for someone older. "Honest mistake...c

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      An Interview with Kameron Hurley

      An Interview with Kameron Hurley

      Science fiction is at its best when it directs our attention to traumatic material while we are being entertained. With her riveting Bel Dame Apocrypha series of novels, author Kameron Hurley does that brilliantly. She was kind enough to answer questions about her inspiration. Hickman: The protag

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      What am I doing here?

      What am I doing here?

      Four years ago, I was writing every day. Then we launched LikeTheDew.com. Seemed a good idea. My friend Keith was looking for a place to write. So were some of his newly former journalist pals. We didn’t need a business plan. The last thing we wanted was for the Dew to become a job. It was orga

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      Q&A with Jonathan Grant, author of Brambleman

      Q&A with Jonathan Grant, author of <em>Brambleman</em>

      Q: Tell us a little about Brambleman. A: It’s a novel about a homeless writer, Charlie Sherman, who is convinced by a mysterious stranger to finish a dead man’s book about a horrific crime that’s gone unpunished for decades. Charlie begins work on an epic manuscript about the mob-driven expul

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      America Is Better Than This

      America Is Better Than This

      Will someone answer this question for me?  What is wrong with being a Muslim?  There are Muslim doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen and policewomen.  There is a Muslim congressman from the great state of Minnesota named Keith Ellison.  We encounter Muslim Americans in every facet of American

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      Dropping the 'F word'

      Dropping the 'F word'

      In what might be the smartest appeal so far in this otherwise dismal presidential election, Hillary Clinton did NOT call Donald Trump a fascist during her July 13th speech on unity in Springfield, Illinois. Instead she warned about what he might do once in power. Declining to use the “F word

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      Some Meat on the Bone

      Some Meat on the Bone

      [caption id="attachment_12137" align="alignright" width="329"] My baby boy, Jack[/caption] I ran into an old friend at a wing and rib restaurant last week.  It was her young daughter’s birthday and when asked what she wanted for supper on her birthday, her daughter responded, “some meat on t

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      Equality is a slippery slope

      Equality is a slippery slope

      If the descendants of the Africans who were imported to the Americas thought that equal treatment would assure better treatment and a higher quality of life, they were disabused of that notion at least twice. First came Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court decision which made segregation legal wher

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      On the Road with Honey: Atlanta to Chicago

      On the Road with Honey:  Atlanta to Chicago

      I have always believed that if you can't write, you should make lists. Here is a recounting of my 723 mile trip in Honey from Williams Mill Road in Atlanta to the intersection of 56th Street and South Drexel in Chicago. [caption id="attachment_12910" align="alignright" width="300" caption="L

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