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• Nota bene: Got hot links if you want ‘em

  http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/07/07/nota-bene-got-ho...
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  At Truthdig economic reporter Doug Henwood writes: “The Republican never has doubts about the rightness of a money-driven hierarchical society ultimately backed by violence. The Democrat, though, is troubled by doubts and anxieties in the back of his mind that get diluted by evasion and qualification by the time they work their way toward the

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• McCain threatens bombing china over U.S. flag sales

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  On the heels of news that millions of American flags are actually imported from China, Republican presidential nominee John McCain addressed the issue this Fourth of July morning outside a flag factory in Fredericksburg, Virginia. "All options must be on the table to deal with China's infiltration of our flag market,"

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• Saturday Video Roundup: Dancin’ with the idiots

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  If you own a television, you’ve no doubt noticed that we Americans just loves us some dancing. So today, SVR takes a moment to honor the US of A’s dancing fools. Emphasis on “fools.” Let’s start here, at the intersection of Boogie Street and Sanctity of Marriage Boulevard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Hey, could be worse

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• It’s time to label conservatives for what they really are

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  Somewhere in the 1970s, the right had a stroke of genius.  Cognitive theorists have long known that guilt-by-association or virtue-by-association is an effective persuasive technique.  Tie a candidate to a scary image - like Willy Horton - and tie your own candidate to a beloved image - like the flag - and you stand a very good chance of winning

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• Gingrich’s “Energy Independence Day” makes false promises

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  American Solutions, Newt Gingrich’s allegedly non-partisan organization for developing “real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country”, has a new petition out and a goal of making today, July 4, “Energy Independence Day.” The goal of the project is for citizens to attend their Senators’ and Representatives’ Town Hall

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• What the the rockets’ red glare wrought one July 4th holiday

  http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/07/03/what-the-the-roc...
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  A 20-year anniversary slips by unnoticed. July 3 marked 20 years since the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655. All 290 passengers aboard, including 66 children, were killed. In the intervening years have any extenuating circumstances surfaced to excuses this colossal blunder? Let’s revisit the Iran-Iraq war,

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• PBS and NBC’s symbiotic sins of omission

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  PBS and NBC’s symbiotic sins of omission Posted on July 3, 2008 by Brad Jacobson under Iran, Iraq, Israel, censorship, human rights, journalism, media, military, news, telecommunications, television, war

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• A Fourth of July Quotabull

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  The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good

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• YouTube / Viacom lawsuite poses a threat to more than just civil liberties

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  [ YouTube]In 2004, Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government that was used to track down a dissident journalist, Shi Tao, and send him to a labour camp. It was the moment that the Internet knew sin. Now, Judge Louis Stanton has decided to force Google/YouTube to disclose a complete set of data on all YouTube users

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• WordsDay: A Southern writer’s famous Midwestern tale

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  Perhaps I’m jaded. Maybe I’ve read “A Rose for Emily” once too often, researched a tad too much about dismemberments in Memphis, taught one class too many on “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and indulged myself too uncritically in the fictive Carolina childhood of T.R. Pearson. Maybe there’s something deep and dark and twisted in me. I don’t know

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