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What Can I Write?

Posted by David Katz on May 2, 2011 in Breaking News, Current Affairs, Featured Articles, Uncategorized | 1 comment
Osama Bin Laden is dead. I am overcome with emotion.  I want to write, but I have no clue where to begin as there are literally dozens of ideas racing about my head so I am going to write a few micro stories and hope to get as many of my ideas out. Why I am Happy How does one react to news of this...
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Barbour drops out, Daniels ascends

Posted by David Katz on Apr 26, 2011 in 2012, Elections, Featured Articles | 1 comment
As everyone has reported, Barbour has officially announced that he will not be running for president.  To those who have been following Barbours recent string of racial gaffs (such as here and here) this announcement is not that surprising as he probably is not looking forward to getting tarred as a...
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Gadaffi’s Son Lays Rhetorical Groundwork for Slaughter

Posted by David Katz on Feb 20, 2011 in Breaking News, Current Affairs, Featured Articles | Comments Off
Sayf al-Islam, a son of Muammar Gaddafi, has drawn a hard line against the protests there.  In his internationally televised speech Sayf threatened the people with the spector of civil war and began to lay down the groundwork for a massacre of the protests there.  For the most part the speech was...
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Arizona and the US: It’s complicated

Posted by David Katz on Feb 7, 2011 in Featured Articles, Something Light | Comments Off
Last week the Arizona state legislature passed a bill with the goal of creating a panel with the power to ignore federal laws in both parts and entirety. Lawrence O’Donnell noted how this was a clear violation of the supremacy clause in the constitution, and was a job already filled by the...
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Egypt is not Poland

Posted by David Katz on Jan 28, 2011 in Featured Articles, Foreign, Uncategorized | Comments Off
So I am in San Francisco right now and have to be ready for a meeting in a few minutes, but I just wanted to get some quick thoughts out about what is going on in the middle east right now. My big worry with this is that while this is a good wake up call for for the totalitarian governments of the Arab...
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