The Table for July 14, 2012

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The Table for July 4, 2012: Let Your Voice Be Heard

Our democracy is alive and struggling because people believe that we have something to live, vote and die for in America.

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Would Americans Have the Courage for a Syrian Uprising?

As I watch the Arab world fight and die for the very democracy I live, I worry about the long contentment of the States.

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Birth Control Pains

President Obama displayed one his best moves in allowing the American Bishops to protect their healthcare system while protecting women’s rights and choices by making sure birth control is available if desired.

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The American Job: The Promise of Instability

At best, this across the field job neurosis could inspire a sense of camaraderie, a shared misery that reduces the jealousy and hostility that I’m all too afraid will define this era.

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A Class Project on Jobs with Barack Obama

As a former academic, President Obama should appreciate this metaphor for his presidency.

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America’s Successful Failures: The Stories of Arlene Ackerman, Wall Street, and Kim Kardashian

What these three seemingly disconnected stories share in common is a horrible, unrealistic message, propagated by both politicians and the media, that it is not just okay to fail, but it can actually turn out to be financially advantageous.

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Hershey Kiss of Death to the American Worker

The recent article, Foreign Students Walk Off Hershey Factory Job Protest, shows the shameless lengths the famous Pennsylvania chocolatier is going to avoid hiring American workers and paying taxes for a solvent Social Security.

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American Jobs Are Not Created Equal

I was just looking for school bags and pencils, but what I found was a moral dilemma. Should I shop at a place where they import out of state workers with lower living standards?

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The American Education System- We Came, We Taught, We Failed…But How We Can Still Succeed

To argue that public schools themselves have failed is too short-sighted and reflects no critical thought, something essential if we are to have any hope of saving this most valuable of institutions.

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