NPR Extends 'Unholy Week' With Feminist-Socialist Barbara Ehrenreich A

April 13th, 2014 9:12 AM
It started sounding like Unholy Week on NPR. On the national show “Fresh Air,” one day after Bart Ehrman insisted Jesus didn’t see himself as God, host Terry Gross brought on another atheist author, Barbara Ehrenreich. The segment was titled "A Nonbeliever Tries to Make Sense of the Visions She Had as a Teen." Or as Hanna Rosin summarized it for Slate: “Could Barbara Ehrenreich, fourth-…

McDonald's Hiring 50,000, Media Celebrate. But In Reagan Era, Media Di

April 5th, 2011 3:51 PM
First, let me make something clear. One thing I learned in my first job as a dishwasher back in the Mesozoic Era is that all work conscientiously done can be noble. I don't criticize McDonald's for wanting to grow their business and the businesses of their franchisees, and I surely won't criticize anyone for taking a fast-food job to put food on the table or to gain an employment foothold.…

Mayors' Report Details Rise of Homelessness and New, Growing 'Tent Cit

December 14th, 2009 10:26 AM
In a Washington Post opinion piece published on December 6, longtime expansionary entitlement program apologists Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich ripped into the 1996 welfare reform law and its alleged effect on the poor during the struggling economy of the past two years. In the course of their rant, Edelman and Ehrenreich told readers something that the rest of the press has largely…

Down With Capitalism

August 23rd, 2007 11:44 AM