I Think I Saw Tom Paine On The 4th Of July- July 7, 2008 By Carolyn Baker & Melissa Taylor of Speaking Truth to Power These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine Everyone said I must attend a Fourth of July parade in New England. I yawned and thought of all...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/07/i_think_i_saw_t.php Sentient Like Me: Ape Rights and the Myth of Intelligence amongst Speciesists- July 7, 2008 By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Blatant speciesist and self-described "liberal Republican" William Saletan recently penned a predictably narrow-minded and weakly argued anti-animal rights editorial for Slate Magazine. Originally bowing to the will of Microsoft, Slate is now economically...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/07/sentient_like_m.php Journalistic Imperatives: Saying What Others Mightn't- July 5, 2008 By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The world of journalism, like any other profession, can be muddled with a plethora of distractions,...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/05/journalistic_im.php Another Person Dies In An Emergency Room. What Have We Come To- July 5, 2008 Esmin Green died untreated on the floor of Kings County Hospital in New York, and six employees were disciplined. She joins Edith Isabel Rodriguez who died last year at Martin Luther King Jr. - Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles. The...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/04/another_person.php A Declaration of Independence from the Government of the United States of America- July 4, 2008 By Anonymous republished from Speaking Truth to Power This article is (reportedly) from an anonymous woman now living in South Africa. It was sent to Carolyn Baker by a third party, I believe it raises some important thoughts to consider...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/04/a_declaration_o.php The Toddler King's Insufferable Reign is Doomed- July 1, 2008 By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner Both George Bush and Dick Cheney have emphatically proclaimed the American Way of Life as "non-negotiable." As hard as it may be for the feeble-minded, deluded, conscienceless, or hopelessly addicted to grasp, Mother...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/01/the_toddler_kin.php The Day of the Bullies- July 1, 2008 By David Irving. Originally published at Thomas Paine's Corner Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States. Most of...http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/07/01/the_day_of_the.php |