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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine (NY). As well as having been a regular political columnist on several national websites for over 20 years, he is the author/co-author/editor/co- OpEd News Member for 775 week(s) and 0 day(s) 667 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Thursday, November 11, 2010Jonathan Westminster: The 15% Solution, Serialization, 1st Installment: Preface This is the 1st installment of the serialization of "The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022." The author's pseudonym is Jonathan Westminster. A full guide to the series can be found at the lower right of the Home Page of www.tpjmagazine.us. The book is purportedly published in the year 2048 on the 25th Anniv. of Constitutional Democracy in the Re-United States.
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Friday, November 5, 2010The Wages of Hate: The Development of Political Homophobia Homophobia has been around for a long time. It turns up in the Old Testament of the Bible as well as in the New. The Republican Religious Right relies on that view in support of its homophobia, and cites chapters and verses in support of it. But the use of homophobia as a direct political weapon, designed to help win elections for a given political party, can be seen to be an invention of the modern US Republican Party.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 154: Reflections on 9/11 and What is Patriotism But the 9/11 controversy has not gone away, that is, the controversy over what were the real causes of the disaster. It will not, at least until there is another investigation of the tragedy bringing in many more witnesses and testifiers from many different points of view and perspectives with an opportunity to raise so many questions that have yet to be answered and to offer for consideration scientific evidence about cause.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 153: It's Not About the Mosque: The GOP and Islamophobia The "Mosque Controversy" is hardly about "The Mosque." First of all, as well-known to anyone who has stopped to examine what it really is, the Muslim center is not one. It is in fact a multi-purpose community center open to all, of all religions, which happens to have a Muslim prayer room in it. No minarets, no muezzins calling the faithful to prayer, just, as an observer in The New Yorker said, a sort of YMMA.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 150: The Rightward Imperative of the GOP The GOP has to attract voters and they have become past masters of mastering the use of the "gut" issues that their potential voters will respond to. But to keep them focused and to keep them coming, they have now resorted to their wholly owned subsidiary, the "Tea Parties" and ideas that were only a while ago considered just not "main-stream." Like Sharon Angell proposing to abolish Social Security.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010Ending the Filibuster: Fuhgeddaboudit For those who might not be familiar with the term, "fuhgeddaboudit" is one of those three-into-one Noo Yawk words that puts the final stamp on the subject with which it is concerned. Yes, folks, good folks like Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa can present very logical arguments for getting rid of the most anti-democratic rule crippling the functioning of any legislature in any of the "Western Democracies."
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010It Ain't Gonna Happen, Frank Obama, do the right thing(s)? It ain't gonna happen and has nothing to do with the President's personality --- "no drama Obama," "he doesn't want to come across as an angry black man," "he needs to be loved." Nor does it have to do with "trusting the smart guys." It has everything to do with the politics of the Democratic Leadership Council (and their very own "smart guys"), for which he is the current torch-bearer. |
