American Life in Poetry: Column 303 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 There’s something wonderfully sweet about a wife cutting a husband’s hair, and Bruce Guernsey, who lives in Illinois and Maine, captures it beautifully in this poem. For My Wife Cutting My Hair You move around me expertly like the good, round…
Here are a few highlights from David Cole’s Conservative Constitution of the United States (from the Washington Post, January 7, 2011): We, the Real Americans, in order to form a more God-Fearing Union, establish Justice as we see it, Defeat Health-Care Reform, and Preserve and Protect our Property, our Guns and our Right Not to…
Much worse. Deeper, more prolonged losses. Recovery uncertain at this time. A picture is worth a thousand tragic words:
Published in Earthjustice.org 04 January 2011. Reprinted with permission. by David Lawlor Gold mining and its toxic byproducts proliferate in the Americas. Silver was the precious metal at the foundation of the Roman Empire’s economy and since silver is often embedded in lead ore, lead was an abundant byproduct available throughout the empire. As such,…
First published in ConsortiumNews.com. Reprinted with permission of the author. by Robert Parry Despite a few victories in the lame-duck session of Congress, Democrats and progressives should be under no illusion about the new flood of know-nothingism that is about to inundate the United States in the guise of a return to “first principles”…