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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Jul 28 2011

Spiritual warfare

America’s own Taliban

By Paul Rosenberg, 28 Jul 2011 10:44 … Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two colossal images…  [more]

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