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Feb 10 2012
Alarmist and deeply hateful
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s War
By Anthony Alessandrini, Feb 09 2012 … For a couple of centuries now, we have had to make due with Samuel Johnson’s famous phrase: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Thanks to Ayaan… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/10/alarmist-and-deeply-hateful/
Feb 10 2012
The current freakout
Most of Obama’s “Controversial” Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years
By Nick Baumann, Wed Feb. 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST … President Barack Obama’s decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer… [more]
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Feb 10 2012
Pietà
World Press Photo of the year awarded to Samuel Aranda
By David R Arnott, 2/10/2012 … The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a picture by Samuel Aranda as the… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/10/pieta/
Feb 08 2012
Patron saint of hate
What To Do About Violent Biblical Texts?
By Philip Jenkins, 02/ 3/2012 4:11 pm … Every few weeks, it seems, Islam makes headlines in the U.S., whether the topic is a television show like All-American Muslim, a state prohibiting… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
It is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
By Glenn Greenwald, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 8:51 AM 16:08:00 CST … On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his… [more]
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Feb 05 2012
He’s just a Mormon
The ultimate Mormon male
By Naomi Zeveloff, Sunday, Feb 5, 2012 2:30 PM 15:58:29 CST … If there is one single impediment to Mitt Romney’s campaign, it is his utter inscrutability, his perplexing failure to schmooze with voters. Romney… [more]
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