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In a recent NPR piece, Americans Distrust Congress? That’s No Surprise, writer Andrea Seabrook interrogated  America’s growing distrust of congressional leadership. Seabrook starts the argument well but just flat misses the big picture. One of [...]

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There is no substitute for good journalism.
Check out this clip of Anderson Cooper interviewing Arizona representative Cecil Ash about his support of birther legislation. It’s amazing to think how uninformed our politicians and our electorate can be. Because of bias [...]

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finding your life’s purpose and changing the lives of nearly 24,000 children and their parents in the process [...]

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Raj – The racist core of the Tea Party movement is [...]

jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout(‘loadFBShareMe_264()’,5000); }); function loadFBShareMe_264(){ jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(‘.dd-fbshareme-264′).remove();$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_264′).attr(‘width’,'53′);$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_264′).attr(‘height’,'69′);$(‘.DD_FBSHAREME_AJAX_264′).attr(’src’,'http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.php?url=http://www.soulpundit.com/2009/03/26/when-two-elephants-fight/&size=large’); }); }Sharereddit_url = http://www.soulpundit.com/2009/03/26/when-two-elephants-fight/;reddit_title = When+two+elephants+fight+.+.+.;reddit_newwindow=’1′;yahooBuzzArticleHeadline=When+two+elephants+fight+.+.+.;yahooBuzzArticleId=http://www.soulpundit.com/2009/03/26/when-two-elephants-fight/;There is a classic eastern proverb that goes like this, “When two elephants are fighting, it is the grass who suffers.” Unfortunately for the people of  Zimbabwe, there is no end in sight for their suffering. It will take an [...]

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