Jun 28 2011
Is America’s plight so terrible that it would lurch this far? By Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 … Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly short, depending on the closeness of one’s acquaintance with sanity. For all that, there is …
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Jun 26 2011
Tales of the Demonic By Richard Beck, 6.25.2011 … Last year I was sitting in the backyard typing away on my laptop. It was one of those wonderful mornings where I’m working outside with a cup of coffee and the dog running around. Suddenly, things got very bad. I was surprised to see a man …
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Jun 25 2011
Faith @ Work: Is God present in our daily lives? By J. Douglas Holladay, 09:48 AM ET, 06/23/2011 … Hubris and arrogance should have little quarter in the lives of those with animating and authentic faith; yet I have observed in myself and others something quite troubling. And though it is a patently false idea, …
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Jun 25 2011
Them That’s Not Shall Lose By Charles M. Blow, June 24, 2011 … “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin penned that line more than 50 years ago, but it seems particularly prescient today, if in a different manner than its original intent. Baldwin …
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Jun 24 2011
How to survive the age of distraction By Johann Hari, Friday, 24 June 2011 … In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one, Gary Steynghart’s novel Super Sad True Love …
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Jun 22 2011
The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle By Robert Steinback, Intelligence Report, Summer 2011, Issue Number: 142 Illustrations by Bri Hermanson … The apparent recent surge in popular anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has been driven by a surprisingly small and, for the most part, closely knit cadre of activists. Their influence extends far beyond their limited …
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Jun 22 2011
Looks Like We’re Not Yet Done With The ‘Anthony Weiner Was A Secret Muslim’ Rumors By Jason Linkins, 06/22/11 04:21 PM ET … Just over a week ago, we brought you word of an insanely paranoid screed published in “The Communities at the Washington Times” (a distinction that both allows the Washington Times to avoid …
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