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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

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America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Believe Media Trust
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People

Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

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