"We are often told that the poor are grateful for
charity. Some of them are, no doubt,
but the best amongst the poor are never grateful.
They are ungrateful, discontented,disobedient, and
rebellious. They are quite right to be so...
28 December 2001
Christmas morning found me walking with Jasper the Wonderdog up
a street called Slalom, approximately 6,500 feet above sea level in the
Sierra, on the outskirts of the town of Truckee, which lies athwart
Interstate 80, not far from Lake...
19 December 2001
The fall of Enron sounds the death knell for one of the great
rackets of the last decade: Green Seals of Approval, whereby some outfit
like the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Environmental Defense Fund
would issue testimonials...
12 December 2001
Has the collapse of Enron finally pushed Social Security
"reform" off the political agenda for the foreseeable future? Half the stock
on Enron employees' 401K retirement plans was Enron paper, contributed as a
company match, for which,...
09 December 2001
Dear Columbus Free Press Editors,
I recently started thinking about a topic which I had never thought much about before, and I probably would rather not think about it now, however; my conscience will not allow me to disregard...
I recently started thinking about a topic which I had never thought much about before, and I probably would rather not think about it now, however; my conscience will not allow me to disregard...
09 December 2001
FREEP HERO
Representative Barbara Lee
Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, the lone dissenter in the U.S. House of Representatives in a 480-1 vote in favor of President Bush’s use of...
Representative Barbara Lee
Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, the lone dissenter in the U.S. House of Representatives in a 480-1 vote in favor of President Bush’s use of...
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