Charles Taylor in the Star-Ledger pens an ode to one of the great country-pop songs of all time, Glen Campbell‘s “Galveston.” The song, as he reminds us, remains relevant today, as American soldiers fight deadly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the American government pretends their deaths mean little — so little, in fact, that we cannot see the coffins returning.
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The targeting of Mexican immigrants completely misses the manner in which border breaches now occur. Read this from The Washington Post.
And read this.
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Here is the best writing on the Enron affair so far, from John Nichols and William Greider, both in The Nation.
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A second Dispatches this week, from The Cranbury Press, on the need for public financing and the New Jersey clean elections pilot.
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OK. This is perhaps the strangest of political lists — a Top 50 conservative rock songs selected by The National Review. While some of the music seems pretty obvious — Metallica “Don’t Tread on Me” — other songs seem to do nothing more than prove that a.) the magazine does not understand shades of gray (“Won’t Get Fooled Again” is about not being a follower, as is “Cult of Personality” — messages that remain apropos in the age of Dubya) or b.) the magazine lacks the ability to discern irony (“Sympathy for the Devil” as a paean to conservative values?????).
Overall one of the most bizarre lists I’ve come across.
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Hank Kalet 