Aug 11 2013
Confessions of a Christian Skeptic By Joe Boyd, 08/08/2013 11:52 am I grew up deeply entrenched in Evangelicalism. So much so, that I made it my career. I went to Bible College to become a pastor. And I worked in the church full-time for about ten years. I was good at drawing a crowd …
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Aug 11 2013
Holocaust facts: Where does the figure of 6 million victims come from? By Haaretz, Aug. 11, 2013 4:57 PM One of the most well-known, if not iconic, facts known about the Holocaust is the number of Jewish victims killed by Nazi Germany up through the end of World War II. Perhaps not surprisingly, it …
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Aug 10 2013
The biggest threat to America? The size of its own military budget By Michael Cohen, Friday 9 August 2013 09.30 EDT Dear America: I know you’ve got a lot on your mind these days. Work is a drag; the kids are still on summer vacation; the car is making an awful racket (it’s probably …
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Aug 09 2013
A Cold Current By Jesmyn Ward, August 7, 2013, 8:13 pm DeLisle, Miss. There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory. As a child of the …
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Aug 08 2013
A ‘fatberg’ in the sewers? What a waste By Richard Sugg, Thursday 8 August 2013 11.51 EDT A colossal “fatberg” of wet-wipes, sanitary products and food fat clogging a Kingston sewer threatened to send raw sewage spurting into London streets and homes in late July. Looking like some kind of B-movie monster, this 15-tonne …
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Aug 08 2013
Richard Dawkins’ tweets on Islam are as rational as the rants of an extremist Muslim cleric By Nesrine Malik, Thursday 8 August 2013 13.13 EDT Today is the first day of Eid, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. I took the day off, as Eid on your own at work without family …
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Aug 08 2013
Reunited After 50 Years, An Algerian Buena Vista Social Club Makes Its U.S. Debut By Anastasia Tsioulcas, August 08, 2013 2:00 AM Stories of old friends finding each other again aren’t all that surprising in the age of Facebook and Twitter. But sometimes, those reunions can lead to the opportunity of a lifetime. A …
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