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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.

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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
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
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
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
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
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.

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