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The passing of Beau Biden
Last night, Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, died of the brain cancer he had been battling since 2013. This is Beau Biden at the DNC in 2008, introducing his Dad: (grab kleenexes) […]
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Ice Age Floods, The Columbia Plateau, and Terroir
Some of the largest cataclysmic geologic events on earth occurred in what is now the Pacific North West. About 11 million years of volcanic flow activity, ending about 6 million years ago, created the Columbia […]
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President Obama Speaks to Youth and Law Enforcement in Camden NJ
From the White House: Today, the President is in Camden to talk about the promising progress that city is making in enhancing community policing. Last December, President Obama launched the Task Force on 21st Century […]
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To Mend the Broken – Rev. Dr. Karl Lutze
CONTENTS Foreword – 2015 Preface – 1966 Finding the Pieces The Shattered The Crushed And After the Breaking? Who Will Pick Up the Pieces? Refusal to Look at the Broken The Assignment to Mend To Mend […]
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“Cruel and absurd”
Back in early April, Charles Pierce wrote about the sentencing phase of the Boston Marathon bomber trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been found guilty and the jury would now decide his fate: life in prison or […]
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Restavek – “One who stays with” is the word for a child slave in Haiti.
Ignoring Haiti and its problems is par for the course in the United States, even when the U.S. has played a role in creating them. There was a flurry of concern around the time […]
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Aloha! Green Power!!
From ThinkProgress: Hawaii Will Soon Get All Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources The state legislature sent a bill to the governor’s desk this week that moves the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) up to 100 […]
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The Legacy of NAFTA
From Al Jazeera: When the ‘refrigerator capital of the world’ lost its refrigerator plant [The Hoisingtons] long-standing jobs with Electrolux, the multinational firm that took ownership of the plant in the 1980s, gave the couple […]