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...melodrama, it's thumping good stuff. But as politics, it's sort of a train wreck - at once powerful, spellbinding and uncontrolled. Like William Jennings Bryan whipping up populist Democrats over moneyed interests or the John Birch Society brooding over fluoride, Beck mines the timeless theme of the corrupt Them thwarting a virtuous Us. This flexible narrative often contains genuinely uncomfortable truths. Some days "they" are the unconfirmed policy "czars" whom Beck fears Obama is using to subvert constitutional government - and he has some radical-sounding sound bites to back it up. Some days "they" are the network of leftist...
...1930s "said that everybody was going to have to wear dog tags and that this was a plot for the government to keep track of everybody ... These struggles have always boiled down to a contest between hope and fear." True enough. There was McCarthyism in the 1950s, the John Birch Society in the 1960s. But there was a difference in those times: the crazies were a faction - often a powerful faction - of the Republican Party, but they didn't run it. The neofascist Father Coughlin had a huge radio audience in the 1930s, but he didn't have the power...
After 35 years in the mortgage industry, Tom Birch took a job as a housing counselor at Boise's Neighborhood Housing Services this past winter. He spends his days meeting with people who can no longer afford their mortgage payments. It has been tough going. More than most, Birch appreciates that mortgage companies were not prepared to handle the number of cases they have seen. He also understands, again probably more than most, that foreclosure is, in certain circumstances, the right outcome...
...story of frustration told time and again, even by professional housing counselors like Tom Birch, who last month finally landed the Livelys a modification. One day not too long ago, Birch got a call back from a servicer - a cause for celebration, considering how rarely his messages are returned. When he called the number back, the extension didn't work, but he tried not to let that dampen his excitement. His take: one step at a time...
...they would have such good luck during that historic spring season.Looking back, the victory makes more sense. They had Coach Kingston, a man “who appeared to have started to play in rugby when he was in the womb,” according to rugger Giles A. Birch ’85.According to Kingston, coaching a rugby team was a natural extension of his love for the game.“In summer of 1981, I was wandering down their athletic facility and bumped into a group of guys who were rugby players,” Kingston recalls...