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Dear Mr. Blitzer

Posted on June 24, 2018June 26, 2018 by PlayFair

Dear Mr. Blitzer, I just watched your interview with General Hayden.  As a determined and incisive journalist, you had an obligation to press the general for

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How Much and How Many Will Die in the Dark?

Posted on June 16, 2018August 4, 2018 by Karen

The headline in The Guardian (June 16, 2018) read: 2,000 children separated from parents in six weeks under Trump policy.  As I went on, each sentence

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Playwright Blog Ackerman, democracy, die, Germany, Grump, Guardian, Jews, Nazi, News, normalization, Playwright, Prisoner, Sanders, Sessions, Teresienstadt, Terezin, welfare

Save the Paper and the Postage, Congressman Paulsen

Posted on June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 by PlayFair

This past week I’ve received two pieces of mail from Erik Paulsen, my congressman for Minnesota’s 3rd District. The first reads: “Protecting Our Children Fighting Meningitis

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Uncategorized aarp, Ackerman, bill moyers, congressman, Congressman Erik Paulsen, Erik Paulsen, minnesota, Playwright, seniors, truth, vote smart

The Story Goes Like This…

Posted on February 15, 2017 by PlayFair

In 1899, Mincie Fidelman, nine months pregnant, boarded a train, leaving behind her Russian home, most of her family, and everything she had ever known.  She

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Playwright Blog Ackerman, Amos Elon, immigration, Kushner, travel ban

I Dream a Sea of Empty Seats

Posted on January 20, 2017January 20, 2017 by PlayFair

I just learned that my brother-in-law bought tickets to the inauguration – real cheap.  I don’t know how factual are the other stories about “papering the

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Playwright Blog 45th President, Ackerman, Barbara Lee, California, Congresswoman, empty, fact, Guardian, Inauguration, John Lewis, Trump

A Song Suggestion for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Posted on January 14, 2017January 14, 2017 by PlayFair

Will I ever again write on a topic that isn’t Trump related?  I’ve been asking myself this question for weeks now.   Why aren’t I writing about

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Playwright Blog, Uncategorized Ackerman, Facists, Horst Wessel, Inauguration, Karen, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Nazi, Rebecca Ferguson, SA, Strange Fruit, Swastika, Trump

Find Real News

Posted on December 30, 2016 by PlayFair

Ahoy!  Lies Ahead! Apropos of my latest attempt at poetry, Miriam sent me this chart.  I like it.  For the most part, and for what it’s

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Uncategorized Ackerman, Cronkite, fact, fact check, Fake, Fake News, Murrow, News, read, think
 
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