Category Archives: Lyndon Johnson

Clarifying Obama’s State of the Union

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Martin Luther King: “Beyond Vietnam”

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Lessening Political Addictions

My brain’s a self-flogged chunk of meat and my nerves tight because the Electoral College is an undemocratic and grievous institution that, to understand, requires daily tracking of polls in critical states.  Tabulating popular votes would be fair and easy, but the system insists it’s better to stew about who’ll get winner-grab-all electoral votes and [...]

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