Jun 24 2012
Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him By Robert Fisk, Monday 25 June 2012 While 50 million Egyptians were waiting yesterday to hear that they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood mediocrity over a Mubarak bag-carrier, I paid a visit to the home …
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Jun 24 2012
Mitt Romney, Outsourced By Charles P. Pierce, June 22 2012 at 10:46AM This vast new Washington Post report about how Willard Romney and his money-chewing friends got really wealthy by investing in companies dedicated to shipping American jobs overseas is yet one more reason why the Obama campaign really shouldn’t have slacked off from …
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Jun 24 2012
What the Gobshites Are Saying: Fast & Spurious Edition By Charles P. Pierce, June 20 2012 at 1:35PM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo Well, we seem to have a real rage-gasm on our hands now. The president has gone and said the conjuring words, “executive privilege,” thereby presuming to do something once that the previous president did …
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Jun 22 2012
By Monsieur d’Nalgar, June 22, 2012 CE “Ludicrous” — an online dictionary defines it as something laughable, ridiculous, idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny. Examples abound… +++ Ludicrous is men telling women what they can and cannot do or say, especially when it comes to their own bodies, that most intimate of …
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Jun 22 2012
Gitta Sereny led us through our own darkness By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 19 June 2012 10.57 EDT “‘My conscience is clear about what I did myself,’ he said, in the same stiffly spoken words he has used countless times at his trial, and in the past weeks, when we had always come back to …
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Jun 22 2012
‘Silence is a lovely idea’ – so why have churches become so noisy? By Mark Vernon, Friday 22 June 2012 06.03 EDT Silence is like forgiveness. Many would say it’s a lovely idea, until they have to do it (to borrow a line from CS Lewis). Or more provocatively, could there be a cultural …
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Jun 21 2012
Christians and the Kill List By William Alberts, June 19, 2012 In broad daylight, without a Christian murmur, President Obama has placed a “kill list” on the altar of “American values.” An unconstitutional, international law-violating, indifferent to innocent civilians, anti-American-breeding “kill list.” A national security advisors-created, biographical “baseball cards”-like, “PowerPoint slides-amplified “kill list,” comprised …
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