The good, the bad and the politically ugly By Cliff Schecter, 29 Sep 2012 13:46 While I plead guilty to being a political junkie, it’s never a bad thing when something outside the realm of our current political slugfest takes me away from reading about our national pageant for at least a bit. Especially …
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Sep 29 2012
Falafel is a gateway food
Bachmann: ‘We Must Ban Falafel’ in School Lunches By The Daily Currant, Sep. 28, 2012 Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann courted controversy today by claiming that falafel and other “jihadi foods” should be banned from school lunches in the United States. In an interview with local television station KSTP in Minneapolis, Bachmann explained that …
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Sep 29 2012
Deep level creepy
Warrantless Electronic Surveillance Surges Under Obama Justice Department By Matt Sledge, 09/28/2012 9:52 pm EDT The Obama administration has overseen a sharp increase in the number of people subjected to warrantless electronic surveillance of their telephone, email and Facebook accounts by federal law enforcement agencies, new documentsreleased by the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday …
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Sep 29 2012
Jeremiad of a radical ideologue
Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech By Justin Raimondo, September 28, 2012 It’s no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Bibi’s wackiness doesn’t bear close scrutiny. Perhaps “wacky” isn’t quite the right word for his 40-minute peroration, during which …
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Sep 28 2012
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Sep 28 2012
The need to generalise
Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’ By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07 I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World Trade Center had cooled. Life in New York City was just beginning to reanimate after two …
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Sep 23 2012
Flying Jihad Terror Babies invade America
A Conservative History of the United States By Jack Hitt, September 19, 2012 1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry 1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a …
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