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GUEST VIEWPOINT: The timber racket | A culture of corruption and political payoffs harms the land and ourselves

Seeded on Mon Jan 2, 2012 2:16 AM EST (The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon)

As a federal prosecutor in Eugene I oversaw in the late 1980s and early 1990s a dozen investigations and prosecutions exposing rampant theft of federal timber.

environment, tax-payers, corporate-contributions, ows, corruputions

There are 3 things that I despise...

Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:43 PM EST

"There are three things that I despise. Hypocrisy and Lies and anything the Dims the Light in a Child's Eye."

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Better Read than Dead?

Seeded on Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:54 PM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)

NEW YORK -- While sorting through the perennial lip-pursing tempest about a certain word in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" -- the "N-word," as we now say it -- I turned for inspiration to the master himself.

education, mark, twain, rewriten

New shock ad campaign against anorexia

Seeded on Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:25 AM EST (msnbc.com)

Photographer Oliviero Toscani unveiled his latest shock ad campaign Monday, featuring an emaciated nude woman in an advertisement for an Italian fashion house with the headline "No anorexia."

health, is, and, what, sexual, womans

People, not politics, will save nation from total meltdown

Seeded on Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:07 PM EST (New York Times via the Eugene Register Guard)

Elections come and go, but the United States is still careening toward bankruptcy. By 2020, the United States will be spending $1 trillion a year just to pay the interest on the national debt. Sometime between now and then the catastrophe will come.

politics, united-states, american-system

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