Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com The front page of the New York Times yesterday morning trumpeted the news that master message maven Bill […]
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Author: Ray Abernathy
Mortgage Foreclosures Hit Close to Home
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com They say that when your neighbor loses his or her job, that’s a recession, but when you lose […]
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Prayer Meeting in Georgia Brings Rain, But Not Enough
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com About a month ago, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue called a prayer meeting on the steps of the state […]
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New York Post Gets It Right: B’Way Strike Part of a War
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com While most of the media were either busy gurgling over the joy of Broadway theatergoers or regurgitating the […]
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Demon in Her Brain: Bebe Bahnsen’s Back
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com My friend the writer-feminist-political activist Bebe Bahnsen, AKA Bebe Smith, is having a breakthrough year. She discovered, near […]
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From the Debate: It’s not the economy, stupid?
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com Here are some questions that astoundingly were not asked by Tim Russert or Brian Williams during the Democratic […]
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Arbitrator Awards $4.5m to Yale Workers, Union
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com In 1997, a group of nurse’s aides, housekeepers, secretaries and other service workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale […]
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Is Egypt Spinning Out of Control?
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com Kamal Abbas, Gamal Mubarak and Ibrahim Eissa are all their early forties. All three are deeply involved in […]
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No Crackers Game Today: Mary Kay and the Final Out
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com This is the fourth section of Chapter 12 from “Dirty Billy,” posted here without further comment. After waiting […]
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Walking to the Crackers Game: Country Brown and Crusades
Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com With the American League Championship Series about to begin, I’m rooting for the Red Sox by publishing excerpts […]
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