Jul 31 2011

Screeching castrati

Behold what has become of our fourth estate (there is something pathetic about getting better news from the Comedy Channel than we can get from mainstream newspapers and television): [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M…  [more]

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Jul 31 2011

Banning karma

The Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement

By Andrea Elliott, July 30, 2011 … NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative took the Statehouse floor…  [more]

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Jul 31 2011

Despite all our talk

The myth of the extraordinary teacher

By Ellie Herman, July 31, 2011 … The kid in the back wants me to define “logic.” The girl next to him looks bewildered. The boy in front of me dutifully takes notes even…  [more]

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Jul 31 2011

American Holocaust

Everything you need to know- Honest!

By Lee Burkett (with his permission), Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 1:08pm … We need to stop seeing what happens in Washington through the bipartisan looking glass. It is patently obvious that neither party…  [more]

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Jul 30 2011

Seen today

…on Highway 84, about five miles northeast of Bismarck, Arkansas:   What it fails to mention is that some estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties are as high as 1,455,590. Afghan civilian casualties are more difficult to estimate, but the United Nations…  [more]

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Jul 28 2011

Days left to get rich

The Rapture Profiteers

By Peter Savodnik, July 28, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT … For nearly a year, nonagenarian preacher and radio personality Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21. Locusts would blanket the earth and millions would…  [more]

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Jul 28 2011

Overwhelming majority

In his rage against Muslims, Norway’s killer was no loner

By , Thursday 28 July 2011 … It’s comforting, perhaps, to dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as nothing more than a psychotic loner. That was the view of the…  [more]

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