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H.L. Mencken on Radicalism
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
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Bless Me Father...AGAIN! - Jennifer Jones from her Oscar-winning performance in "The Song of Bernadette".......And get this, three years later she was nominated again for playing a ...
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Iraqi Police Targeted As Attacks Claim 44 Lives - Although Iraq is enjoying a respite from major bombings, small arms attacks appear to be on the rise. Anbar province, in particular, saw gun violence targe...1 hour ago
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Week in Geek: Black holes and revelations - This amazing video (click image to play) shows the motions of the stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. As you can see, there is no visual object at...3 hours ago
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Investors Pour Millions Into Drone Businesses - Drones Take Off in Silicon Valley : "Using the analogy of the personal computer industry, Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, said Airware is “so...
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When Maher Gets Serious… - Bill Maher has a unique way of telling the truth, using side-splitting humor to distract folks from the noticing the discomfort of actually learning someth...10 hours ago
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Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform - www.cuipcairo.org is a new website that acts as a central repository of information on events, initiatives, organizations and more that have to do with C...11 hours ago
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Surprise! Republicans crafted fake Benghazi emails to mislead the American people. - "An Act of Terror is different than a Terrorist Attack," Darrell Issa a Car Thief is not different than a Congressman. So, the Republicans lied. Republican...1 day ago
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What is Poverty? (6): Absolute or Relative Deprivation? - Is poverty a lack of basic resources, or instead the unequal distribution of resources? Is it the absolute income or wealth of people that matters, or the ...1 day ago
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North Carolina is the new Mississippi - What the fuck is happening to North Carolina? This has been one of the most progressive of the southern states. It’s the home of Duke University — plus a...2 days ago
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Protected: The New Hampshire Gazette Volume 257, No. 17, May 17, 2013 - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.2 days ago
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Successful Completion of the Big Dam Operation - HERAT, Afghanistan (May 17, 2013) – This week, the Italian military in the province of Herat successfully completed the Big Dam operation, in conjunction w...2 days ago
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Benghazi: Time to Investigate the Investigators - A CBS News report surfaced yesterday suggesting House Republicans may have altered Benghazi emails to advance a political agenda. Leaked versions of Beng...2 days ago
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The IRS and the Real Scandal - “This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two,” said David...2 days ago
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Elementary School Mind Blowing - One of the highlights of any child's elementary school education are the times they load the kids up and take them on some field trip to discover some n...
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Alleged Car Thief...Alleged Arsonist Issa Not Concerned About Jobs... Just Dogging The Black Man... - *It is no secret that Darrell Issa has a vendetta against the President and indeed against the American people at large. He is the richest person in public...4 days ago
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The going price of being home to an NFL team just went up - The Minnesota Vikings just revealed the drawings for their $925 million stadium in downtown Minneapolis. The stadium is set to open in 2016, built on the ...5 days ago
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The day Obama showed me the way and started the destruction of America - It was a warm summer day at my hometown's Clat/Adams park. Then the lowly state senator, Barry Obama visited on a campaign stop as he was running for ...
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To Mothers Everywhere - Same as last year and the year before that. The post for this day will never change. Pauline wrote I saw 'Je dois tout a ma mère' painted on a taxi bumper ...1 week ago
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R.I.P. Kansas - With a few minor changes in events, names and places Jason Probst's obituary for his native state of Kansas, which recently ran in The Hutchinson News, could...
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By Any Means Nesssary Part 24 - Minny was up at the crack of dawn,as the old folk use to say before God turned on the lights.The Smell of smoked country ham smoldered the house,the child...1 week ago
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Is The Social Gospel Biblical Enough For Conservative Christians? - Is the Social Gospel biblical enough for Conservative Christians, especially American Conservative Christians? We should note that not all Conservative Chr...2 weeks ago
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Taliban promise bigger, better, wider, carnage including insider attacks until we leave and they lead Afghanistan - Taliban vow massive suicide and "insider" attacks on anything and everything Foreign for spring offensive. They say it starts soon but it has already...
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C -O - O - L, What's that spell? - I don't really have anything new to say about our current political situation so I've decided to write about something really important. The coolest song e...2 weeks ago
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“A fan base primarily comprised of people who got to the store after Mad sold out” - I just stumbled on the Wikipedia article for the late, unlamented Cracked magazine. It’s hilarious, 10,000 times funnier than anything that ever appeared ...4 weeks ago
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41 Senators will always fuck things up - I'm still shocked and amazed that the Senate voted against the compromise bill to expand background checks for gun purchasing. Basically the message here is ...
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Photos of bag near Boston blast generate interest - Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other cont...4 weeks ago
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Back on the Healthy Living Bus - Since I birthed two boys, I fell off the Healthy Living bus. Granted, I didn't give up my Smart Balance balanced oils spread, or happily choose non-organi...4 weeks ago
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One hundred billion dollars for nuclear weapons; one billion people in extreme poverty - GENEVA– Nine states spend over US$100 billion per year on their nuclear weapons, while projections indicate that by 2015 about one billion people will be...5 weeks ago
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COUSINS OF A DIFFERENT KIND - *In 1963 Tom and I were finishing school in Chapel Hill,graduate and law school, headed on the path to our years of working in South Carolina segregationi...
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MSF Criticizes UN Aid Effort for Syria - by Oz Katerji (Syria Newsdesk) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) slammed Wednesday’s UN-led plan to provide humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees on Tuesd...3 months ago
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Sugar free gum for the sweet tooth person - I think people in this world like candy. Even, there are people who love candy very much because simply, candy is just delicious and sweet. Maybe, some of ...5 months ago
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What’s wrong with this picture? - Propaganda from the “Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform” — the fetus-obsessed dingbats who cruise Calgary and beyond in their notorious Fetusmobiles — i...6 months ago
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Predict the 2012 Presidential Election Yourself - it is possible for viewers to make their own predictions while watching the election returns and come pretty close to matching those multimillion dollar ...6 months ago
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Veterans to Stand Firm as Afghan War Enters Year 12 - By David Swanson Dedicated and disciplined nonviolent activists, and in particular military veterans, are being openly invited to join members of Veterans ...7 months ago
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American Autumn: An Occudoc (Official Trailer) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMbERJggt410 months ago
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Sorry about that! - To anyone who is still trying to visit this site: I'm so sorry that it has been allowed to go fallow. I'm FURIOUS with the asshats at Echo for having lost ...1 year ago
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Challenging America’s Plutocracy: The Power of Individual Voters - *April 13, 2012* *Global Research - Challenging America’s Plutocracy: The Power of Individual Voters to Transform Their Government* America is once agai...1 year ago
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April 13: Forgetting Fair Play - [image: daily-digest-150]* What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.* *Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail.* *Econo...1 year ago
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on getting tough with God - Have ya ever wondered where God is when you Really need Him? Ever get Really mad and say - Where is God in this time of My Great Need? If you have ever fou...1 year ago
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Dodgers Now blog redesigned, has new address - The L.A. Times Dodgers Now blog has been redesigned, and with our new duds we're rolling out a new URL. So if you've been a loyal follower of Steve Dilbeck's...1 year ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...1 year ago
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"Failure" of the Super Committee?? - This concept has been kicked around for a few days, but TPM boils it down nicely -- if Congress were to do nothing, then deficits would go WAY down. Now, th...1 year ago
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Blogger Blues - UPDATE 12/18/12: This site is rendering correctly (off and on) - and has been for a while now - but since I've already started the new blog linked below, I...1 year ago
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US Independence, Le Marquis de La Fayette and France - One of the most important heroes of the US War of Indenpendence: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette who made it possible...
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Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress. - I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be an...
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911 Was Child's Play?? - *Traces of Radiation too small to kill an Ant was detected yesterday, Thursday March 17th, at a California Monitoring station. It is said to have come from...2 years ago
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In case anyone is still visiting this blog ... - I stopped updating this blog last year, and I am no longer writing for Mad Mike's. You can now find my volunteer prose poetry and musings at RoundTree7, wh...2 years ago
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New Website Lists Colleges That Allow Guns to Be Carried on Campus - (We are pleased to post the following joint press statement from The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). Media Contac...2 years ago
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WE ARE FAR TOO TOP-HEAVY! - *"Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT free speech!" - TomCat, www.politics.plus.org -* *"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells -* Big bus...
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Michael Moore: America Is Not Broke - Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison, March 5, 2011America is not broke.Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'l...2 years ago
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Democrats attack CPAC talking points - Democrats see speakers at CPAC partying like it is 1799. Are the democrats developing a spine?2 years ago
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Monty Burns on friendship - *"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." *- Montgomery B...
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OpenMike -- My New Blog -- Blasts Off on MichaelMoore.com - Hey Everybody, Though I'm in the middle of my next project, I, like you, can feel the ill wind blowing across the country as the crazy Right is already ...2 years ago
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Kit, Unwired - My life is in transition, and my daughter Casie and I are in the process of moving. We've looked at a few places, from rooms to rent to apartments and may...2 years ago
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Justifiable Police Brutality - If I reacted to being stopped and cited for jay-walking in this manner, and resisted arrest, I would expect to get a pop in the nose. Or something.<i...2 years ago
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Sirens Chronicles bids you adieu… - We will be closing up the site this week. It has been fun, informative and interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the couple of ...2 years ago
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Matthew Alexander - Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) is a former senior military interrogator and author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, No...
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Who's Missing in the Obama Administration and Why? - In the near future, I am planning a column on my site, The Vigil, in which I will ask the question, *What went wrong with Barack Obama and his 60-Vote D...3 years ago
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Racism in China - Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that was crit...
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Afghanistan: Uptight Islamists Block Effort To Strengthen Women’s Freedoms - If women in the Western world think they've got it bad all they have to do is look East, to the religious nutters in Afghanistan and other Islamic countrie...14 hours ago
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