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• Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 560
  John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled "Tragic Prelude," in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Todays fanatic, tomorrows saintIts popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwiseBy Rebecca Solnit / November ...
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• Events: A National Zoo Electric Light Show, Holidays on Display, Celebrations of Winter Holidays

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 425
  Come celebrate the winter holidays at the Smithsonian! Seasons Greetings from Cavalry by Gerald T. Feathers. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives. Monday, November 30: Sorry kids, no special events today. But be sure to check  this Web site for a listing of regularly ...
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• Democracy & Elitism: an introduction to the American false consciousness

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 601
  Part one in a series. Is there a more radioactive word in American politics today than elitist ? Admit it – you saw the word and had an instinctive negative reaction, didn’t you? If not, then count yourself among the rarest minority in our culture, the fraction of a percent that has not yet had its ...
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• Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 137
    USA TODAY By Emily Baazar, USA TODAY Nov. 29, 2009 Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants. The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says ...
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• Ronald Reagan’s Reading* List

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 636
  While I have long compared Sarah Palin’s communication skills as well as her ability to connect with Americans to those of Ronald Reagan, I have also long noted that she lacks his (self-)education in the ideas of conservatism and free markets.  To achieve his status as a leader of the right, she needs study the ...
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• HEALTHCARE PLAN BLUES: An Interview

  
  Poetics and Ruminations — Authority: 124
        Sunday, November 29,2009. Special to the Dresden Mills Gazette . By Wesli Court, Blues Reporter. DMG. At the moment I amstanding in front of the candy counter of the Dresden Texaco and Take-Out inDresden, Maine, having a conversation with Republican Senator Gloria Monday.Good morning, Senator ...
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• “Flesh” trade

  
  Historiann — Authority: 513
  Photo by the Associated Press Via Corrente ,  Sociological Images notes the use of the word “flesh” to describe the color of the dress Michelle Obama wore to the State Dinner at the White House last week (at right.)  I guess someone didn’t get the memo that that old Crayola color was changed a long time ...
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• A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 609
  Ben Bernanke is taking no chances. With his confirmation hearing for continuation as chairman of the Federal Reserve System only days away, he has written an op-ed for publication in Sunday’s Washington Post . We may interpret this article as a preemptive attack on his congressional critics, some of whom will no ...
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• The Washington Review Commentary: About That Presidential Security Breach

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  Party Crashers Michaele And Tareq Salahi Shakes Hands With President Obama Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is in the hot seat. As he should be. How could two complete strangers infiltrate a state event without the batting of an eyelash? Tareq and Michaele Salahi breezed into the state dinner given in the ...
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• Hard, yet fruity, times

  
  Historiann — Authority: 513
  Hello, all–as a follow up to my review of How to Cook a Wolf as a guide to managing a home kitchen in hard times, I thought you’d all enjoy James Lileks’s “ Jell-o Confronts the Depression .”  It’s mocking in tone, as is the rest of his “ Gallery of Regrettable Food ,” and book by the same name, ...
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• Info Ink Book Review #3

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Everyone that knows me knows that I am a political junkie and therefore they think that I am some sort of genius when it comes to political books…..this review is of a book given to me by a friend because he knows of my efforts to disspell some of the hero worship of our Founding Fathers…… Political Incorrect ...
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• Thomas Jefferson – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 147
  Click on image The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three-headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three-headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the ...
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• Remarks By President Obama On Native American Heritage Day

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  President Barack Obama And Prime Minister Singh of India Statement by the President on Native American Heritage Day     “Tomorrow,  Americans everywhere will observe our National Day of Thanksgiving.  It will be a time of celebration and reflection as we gather with family and friends to count our ...
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• Statement By President Obama On Hajj And Eid-ul-Adha

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  Statement by the President on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha     Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha.  The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic ...
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• Remarks By The First Lady At Indian State Dinner Press Preview

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY AT INDIAN STATE DINNER PRESS PREVIEW   State Dining Room   2:00 P.M. EST        MRS. OBAMA:  Thank you.  Welcome, everyone.  How are you all doing?  It’s good to see you.   Well, as Desiree mentioned, this is a very exciting time here at the White House and we are just ...
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• The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah

  
  RochesterConservative.com — Authority: 423
  By Jack Cashill American Thinker In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grunman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister. At that same time, in America’s other new outlier state, Hawaii, ...
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• Tony Kaye Tweets down memory lane

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 490
  Controversial film maker and ad maker, Tony Kaye, perhaps best known for his 1998 film American History X starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong, will today be touring the capital in a Nissan Cube, revisiting locations which have shaped his creativity.Taking in everywhere from St. Albans Art School where he ...
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• Pessimists, But Happy Ones

  
  A Change in the Wind — Authority: 125
  A lovely photo essay on food and American history, from artist Maira Kalman:  
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• Presidential Weekly Address: November 26, 2009

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  The Obamas Welcom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh And Wife Gursharan Kaur Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Thursday, November 26, 2009   For centuries, in peace and in war, in prosperity and in adversity, Americans have paused at this time of year to gather with loved ones and give ...
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• President Obama Pardons The National Turkey: Official Remarks

  
  THE KALEIDOSCOPE FACTOR: A Unique Collection of African American News and Commentary — Authority: 137
  REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON PARDONING OF THE NATIONAL TURKEY   North Portico   11:41 A.M. EST        THE PRESIDENT:  Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.  Welcome to the White House.  On behalf of Sasha and Malia and myself, we’re thrilled to see you.  I want to thank Walter Pelletier, chairman of the ...
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