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ClassCombat.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Nicked a quote from Al Franken’s book (and latest kindle fodder) “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” via this metafilter post: “Any time that a liberal points out that the wealthy are disproportionately benefiting from Bush’s tax policies, Republicans shout, “class warfare!” In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara [...]

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Reframing The Freedom Riders.

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders is an interesting collection of a then-and-now portraiture tied to the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the Freedom Rides in the United States Of America. The value to history that each of these persons has generated is especially important in the time of [...]

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