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Jul 10 2011

Buy a hybrid

Changing the way oil drives US policy

By , Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This…  [more]

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Jul 10 2011

Committed to the rule

My lost boy John Walker Lindh

Frank Lindh, Sunday 10 July 2011 … John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and…  [more]

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Jul 09 2011

A mockery of sainthood

2,000 Years of Popes, Sacred and Profane

By Bill Keller, July 7, 2011 … John Julius Norwich makes a point of saying in the introduction to his history of the popes that he is “no scholar” and that he is…  [more]

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Jul 08 2011

Not above dog-whistling

No Mistake: Why Michele Bachmann Is Trying to Rewrite History

By Spencer Critchley, 7/3/11 08:24 PM ET … The media have had a good time lately with Michele Bachmann’s double-down gaffe about how the Founding Fathers, including an eight-year-old…  [more]

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Jul 08 2011

Turning the sun backward

How the religious right distorts history

By , 01:31 PM ET, 07/06/2011 … On the Fourth of July, the Today show featured an annual ceremony at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, in which hundreds of immigrants take the oath …  [more]

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Jul 08 2011

The Wörgl experiment

Largely forgotten now (or intentionally ignored), this cautionary tale is excerpted from Silvano Barruso’s account of the amazing, audacious Wörgl experiment.  Had it been allowed to continue, the world today might be a radically different (and better) place.  As…  [more]

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Jul 07 2011

The crazy bus stops here

A public service from Monsieur d’Nalgar:  I watched this codswallop so you don’t have to (you’re welcome).  This is the latest offering from the Garland County Tea Party: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxe6nCcSbE[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQxe6nCcSbE Hi-fi version:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rGtnm0ThMM Monsieur d’Nalgar’s painstaking notes:
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