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Jan 09 2012

Are you French Canadian?

President Romney Meets Other World Leaders

By , January 16, 2012 … When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a  peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly. (A  regular query: “Are you French…  [more]

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Jan 08 2012

Gimme that old time religion

Blessed are the un-cool

By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind…  [more]

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Jan 07 2012

Devoted to death

Santa Muerte: Mexico’s Devotion To the Saint of Death

By , 1/7/12 08:20 AM ET … While tens of thousands of Mexicans have lost their lives in the ongoing drug war, millions more have become devoted to…  [more]

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Jan 07 2012

They are also dangerous

Republicans: we don’t need no regulation

By , Friday 6 January 2012 13.00 EST … Here are the two contradictory facts you must keep in your mind if you wish to understand American politics today: 1. We are…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

Newt Gingrich is a big fat idiot

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Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people

By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

We do sleep soundly

The shocking truth that killing can be so casual

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber…  [more]

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Jan 06 2012

I wish him to have dignity

Rebel without a state

By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they…  [more]

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