NOVATO, Calif. — The '60s aren't dead.

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Did Mary, Peter and Paul help end the Vietnam Conflict faster?

In honor of a very incredible woman who once said, "I know things are changing now, because my daughter just married a Republican," I have to look back to the turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s and ask whether Mary Travers in Peter, Paul and Mary did more to end the Vietna …

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Paradise Lost and Nothing Gained

(Lessons Learned -- The Real Plague on Society is Bigotry) by "Bud" E. Lewis Evans

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I agree. Athough Dylan is quite a brillian talent, his message simply isn't consonant with that of Christianity.

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From Highway 2, near the Saskatchewan border, it doesn't look like much; only a painted sign of a family holding hands suggests anything unusual about this particular abandoned farmhouse, one of many.

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At its annual meeting in March, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art made possible the acquisition of Untitled (Alabama) (1967) by African American artist Norman Lewis (1909–1979).

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The phrase is probably about as familiar to anyone who lived through the '60s as any other: "Turn on, tune in, and drop out."

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Feb. 6: TODAY's Meredith Vieira talks to Jose Baez and Linda Kenney Baden, defense attorneys for Casey Anthony, the woman awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter, Caylee.

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To a number of social analysts, historians, bloggers and ordinary Americans, Jan. 20 will symbolize the passing of an entire generation: the baby boomer years...

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Over at Spanish pulp blog El Desván del Abuelito, they've got some terrific covers from what look like early 1960s science fiction comics from a series called "El Mundo Futuro" (world of the future).

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[NARRATIVE] KB Go Home: 1603 Bank Street, Louisville, Ky., 1967

Our block had as many as 4 generations of the same family living all on the same block. My great-grandma lived next door to my grandma and my grandma lived two doors away from our house. There were 3 generations of the Phillips family.

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Fox Searchlight has picked up "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," a project based on the 1968 Tom Wolfe book. Gus Van Sant is directing.

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Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By exploiting America's divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent the Republican brand.

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McCain, the Election, Saturn-Uranus & the 60s

The Change Election We keep hearing the phrase, 'The Change Election', one that an outer planet gauge affirms. Socially speaking two forces play out during this presidential election year.

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RACISM and BIGOTRY: Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself.

Some times I look back on some of my comments to other threads and see an editorial in the making. This is one of those occasions. There are two very important discussions concerning race and racism occurring on both MsCyprah's column and k-stanz's column.

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The stars were happy to play their parts in this pageant for hearts and minds, but not as puppets.

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The rise of Obama, the "democratic" Party and hate - Where we went wrong with our children and our friends. [Supplemented]

Ultimately, the blame is ours to share. We had as much to do with the current situation as we did in the late 1930s with the rise of Hitler and the 1950s rise and subsequent fall of McCarthyism.

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The NYT reports: Alton Kelley, whose psychedelic concert posters for artists like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Big Brother and the Holding Company helped define the visual style of the 1960s counterculture, died on Sunday at his home in Petaluma, Calif. He was 67. ***

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I contend that unless we change course, America and the world will soon be headlong into the abyss.

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from the article: Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance prog …

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Childhood Memories - Part 6

Childhood Memories - Part 1 Childhood Memories - Part 2 Childhood Memories - Part 3 Childhood Memories - Part 4 Childhood Memories - Part 5

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"Bob Dylan -- Don't Look Back" Is a Piece of the '60's on DVD; documentary review

Obviously if we did not look back, Mr. Dylan would have no buyers for this deluxe edition documentary of the legendary 1965 tour of England. Fortunately New Video and Docudrama.com saw fit to ignore him, too, and created the two disc set.

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An Ode to "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Upon the Release of a Box Set

The arrival of the Time-Life box set of DVDs of the old TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." provides a quick trip back to the 1960's.

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Is Today Wednesday? Gilligan's Island, Iraq, and how I put them all together.(Now with poll added)

What do you do when you think all day that it is a totally different day of the week. I mean I went all day thinking today was Wednesday. I mean today fit all the criteria of a Wednesday. Woke up pissed off a bit tired but still optimistic.

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Hollywood producers, but an unusual one: a group of female folkies who played their own instruments and spoke their minds in a time when such a thing still raised eyebrows.

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