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News Roundup – Frederick Douglass, Oil Prices, Downed Asia Airliner
ecthompsonmd December 31, 2014

New Year’s Eve is a crazy time of year. Let’s be safe out there. NO drinking and driving. There is a new book on Frederick Douglass. To me, Frederick Douglass remains somewhat of a mystery. Personally, I have not done as much reading on Frederick Douglass as I probably should have. I did not know that he took a two-year journey to Ireland right before the great potato famine. Historians have been wondering how this trip influenced his thinking and also what he thought about the treatment of the Irish. Frederick Douglass said, “I am for fair play for the Irishman,

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I’m hosting Local Edge Radio today (Updated)
ecthompsonmd April 6, 2012

I’m in the driver’s seat. I’m going to be talking with David Weiss of the Center for American Progress about oil prices. I will also chat with Professor Andrew Koppelman, the John Paul Stevens professor of law at Northwestern, who will be in the house to talk about the Health Care law. Finally, I will spend most of the 5 o’clock hour to talk about Trayvon Martin. You can call in – 828-252-4348. More from ThinkProgress.com: Experts deny that drilling brings down gas prices, despite how often Republicans claim to have the “silver bullet.” Now, the Associated Press reports that an analysis

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More to talk about this Tuesday evening
ecthompsonmd May 24, 2011

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out criteria for peace in an address before Congress. The one point that he made that I think deserves underscoring is that the leadership of Israel has acknowledged that there needs to be a Palestinian state, but the leadership of the Palestinian Authority has never said there should be and must be an Israeli state. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is going to stand trial for killing or ordering the killing of unarmed protesters. As a rule, if you’re an ousted dictator, you need to get out of the country. Do you remember when gas prices

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