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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
How is Bill O'Reilly, or any other far right nutjob responsible for your father's opinion? Aren't you insulting your "intelligent" Dad by intimating that his mind can be so thoroughly manipulated by others?
Interestingly, the Reagan presidency that seemed to herald a change in your parents had the same affect on my father - in the opposite direction.
After voting Republican in several elections, Dad became a liberal democrat after hearing one of Reagan's incredibly obtuse, dismissive statements about this country's poor and disadvantaged.
A reporter asked Reagan what he thought about the poverty and drug dealing evident on the street just a short distance from the White House - Reagan (sans handler) replied: "I don't know. I don't know about it unless I can see it from this window."
Dad has voted the straight democratic ticket ever since.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
