Washington

Behind the Right's Phony War on the Nonexistent Religion of Secularism
RollingStone.com (blog)
At one point, a nice old lady politely pressed into my hand a grubby little self-published pamphlet she had come upon, purporting to prove that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry had faked the heroics that had won him three purple hearts in

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Neil Macdonald: Why Europe is broken
CBC.ca
Such broader interests hardly ever do in this country. And that, for all Italy's beauty and sophistication, is its pathology. But la casta, as Italians call their closed, inward-looking system has suddenly become the focus of much anxiety and even fear

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Letter To Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe: It Is Time To Resign - OpEd
Eurasia Review
You make the case for shutting rural post offices, slashing 150000 postal employees' jobs, ending Saturday delivery, and extending delivery dates as if they do not produce a spiral of decline and loss of customers who will not come back.

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Interview: Antonio Costa Former UNODC Head Talks About Drugs
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
Which side does it come from? Costa: The penetration of the financial sector by criminal money has been so widespread that it would probably be more correct to say that it was not the mafia trying to penetrate the banking system, but it was the banking

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Park Ridge Community Calendar for the week of May 10, 2012
Park Ridge Herald-Advocate
May 14, 4-7 pm: Family Dental Care Park Ridge Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting, 111 S. Washington St., #202, Join Mayor Schmidt and Chamber Board members. May 14,7-8:30 pm: Park Ridge Chamber SCORE Counseling Topic is “Going into Business” at the Park

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