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- 22 January 2011 – 18:33
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- By BrainiYak
Embracing self-destructive behavior gets us nowhere, no matter what race or culture we are Bob Herbert, being African American, can write what is true, without immediately being silenced, ridiculed, or defamed by the ever-present monitors of American Political Correctness. Extracts from Mr. Herbert’s essay include: Parental neglect, racial discrimination and an orgy of self-destructive behavior [...]
Categories: Culture,Education,Ethics
Tagged: African-Americans, Bob Herbert, enslavement, Native Americans, Oklahoma, oppression, political correctness, Too Long Ignored
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- 21 August 2010 – 09:15
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- By BrainiYak
Unattractive Presidential whining Why does Press Secretary Gibbs now think that he can slam the “professional left,” simply because it expressed unhappiness that the President abandoned his campaign promises in order to cozy up to the moneyed elite that runs the country? The allegedly outsider politician, then-Senator Barrack Obama, got his golden opportunity to become [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Administration, Bob Herbert, Fire and Imagination, President Obama, professional left, Robert Gibbs
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- 16 August 2010 – 08:41
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- By BrainiYak
Sometimes, it is about being culturally stupider than drool Columnist Bob Herbert wrote about this topic last Friday: As incredible as it seems from the perspective of 2010, the report from the College Board tells us that “it is expected that the educational level of the younger generation of Americans will not approach their parents’ [...]
Categories: Economy,Education
Tagged: associate, Bob Herbert, college, degrees, education rankings, nation rankings, nitwits, Putting Our Brains on Hold
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- 9 August 2010 – 12:24
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- By BrainiYak
Bob Herbert ─ speaking directly with insight, eloquently with soul Bob Herbert (of the New York Times) consistently speaks for America’s lost heart. Today, he wrote that: What a country. We’ll do whatever it takes to make sure the bankers keep living the high life and swilling that Champagne while at the same time we’re taking [...]
Categories: Economy,Education,Ethics
Tagged: Bob Herbert, Bob King, labor, labor movement, labor unions, Outside the Casino, Restoring a Hallowed Vision, schoolchildren, U.A.W.
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- 13 July 2010 – 11:29
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- By BrainiYak
Two recent columns by Ross Douthat (One Way Out) and Bob Herbert (Worse Than a Nightmare) illustrate the options in pursuing or discontinuing the war in Afghanistan. Douthat has done a better job of presenting the reasons for staying than the President or his generals have. Herbert concisely makes the case for getting out. My more [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Bob Herbert, One Way Out, Ross Douthat, Worse Than a Nightmare
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- 28 June 2010 – 17:52
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- By BrainiYak
The war in Afghanistan was the wrong approach to dealing with terrorism, yet it lingers on because our political leaders and their high-ranking military subordinates are too politically cowardly to end it. Our complacent consumer-centric culture tolerates the drip-drip of tragedy from Afghanistan by paying it virtually no attention. Being from the Vietnam generation, I am haunted [...]
Categories: Ethics
Tagged: Bob Herbert, New York Times, soul
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- 17 June 2010 – 12:08
- Author:
- By BrainiYak