Posts Tagged ‘election 2012’
QUESTIONS
The election is over. We can all take a breath. But that breath better be short. Because looking back—and forward—a lot of questions come to mind. 1. If the nation is as bad off as so many people believe, why did President Obama win? Discontent should have swept Mitt Romney into the Oval Office as…
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HBO’s Deadwood (2004-06) offers an intriguing look at power. Two of the series’ main characters, both based on real people, and a character in an old movie reveal a lot about America in the late nineteenth century and America today. Al Swearingen (British actor Ian McShane) runs Deadwood, a South Dakota gold mining camp, with…
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