Sep 29 2012
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
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
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
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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Sep 23 2012
Don’t let extremists determine we are in a ‘clash of civilizations’ By Khaled Diab, Sep.23, 2012 11:35 AM Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie which forced the British-Kashmiri author into hiding for 13 years, …
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Sep 23 2012
The persecution of John Kiriakou By Peter Van Buren, 23 Sep 2012 12:35 Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn’t torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it. A …
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Sep 20 2012
The ‘Jesus’s wife’ papyrus reveals another version of the Christian story By Tom Holland, Wednesday 19 September 2012 13.30 EDT Our sources for the ancient past are often the merest shreds and patches, and peculiarly challenging is to trace the evolution of religions. Invariably, the process by which one particular orthodoxy succeeded in establishing …
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