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• Why I Didn’t Celebrate the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Russia — Authority: 411
  Don’t get me wrong: I cried as much as anyone when I watched the BBC 9 o’clock newscast from November 9, 1989 . In fact, it was precisely the raw human solidarity behind those unforgettable scenes that exposed the farcical, hypocritical and self-serving nature of the official commemorations marking the fall of ...
  8 hours ago

• The President Of The United States Of America

  
  The Reluctant Optimist — Authority: 425
  Said this? “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.” “Teabag” being, in case you didn’t know, a vulgar sexual reference ...
  1 day ago

• Today’s Most Pathetic Loser: We’re Glad We Aren’t Congressman Ahn “Joseph” Cao

  
  Daily Uprising — Authority: 473
  Today, Congressman Ahn “Joseph” Cao was the lone Republican to vote in support of the House Democrat’s health care reform legislation. Cao barely captured his seat in a run-off election against William Jefferson , the African-American Democrat incumbent, after the FBI taped Jefferson shaking down a ...
  2 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• Defiant But Obedient...So Far

  
  Southern Illinois Catholic — Authority: 446
  Recall the Chicago nun who has been escorting women to murder their babies in an abortion mill? Her activities were noticed in the media. Her superior was asked about it. The order has gotten her to stop the escorting, but she doesnt agree with that decision. How nice of her to offer her views. The order had ...
  3 days ago

• I Am Autism: An Advocacy Video Sparks Protest

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  The controversy over a video recently produced by the autism advocacy group Autism Speaks highlights the ongoing dissent that characterizes the autism community
  4 days ago

• The AARP Stumbles on Health Care Reform

  
  Daily Uprising — Authority: 473
  The Associated Press reported breaking news yesterday that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) will formally endorse the House Democrat’s health insurance reform legislation today. It should come as no surprise that the Daily Uprising team disagrees with the AARP on the merits of the House Bill. ...
  4 days ago

• China Unicom: 5000 iphones sold in first weekend - CNET News

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  China Unicom: 5000 iphones sold in first weekend - CNET News WA today China Unicom: 5000 iphones sold in first weekend CNET News First of all, Apple is not selling the iphone in China (other than through the only Apple Store, which is in Beijing ), China Unicom, the government owned ...
  4 days ago

• If the law is a secret, do you have to obey it?

  
  tekel — Authority: 108
  I’m thinking that negotiating a secret treaty that will strip rights from internet users to pacify movie studios is a pretty good way to make sure that it’s eventually rejected by the American people.
  4 days ago

• Tazers in Eugene

  
  tekel — Authority: 108
  The really choice fact missing from this article is: it was the same officer who tazered the protester last year. A Chinese college student shocked by a Eugene police officer’s Taser stun gun a few hours after the student moved into his new apartment has contacted attorneys to represent him in the case. The ...
  5 days ago

• How President Obama LOST Election 2009

  
  Valley of the Shadow — Authority: 121
  Sometimes at the Valley, I get ahead of the news, and sometimes I analyze. Last year, all the media and the Democrats were talking about " 40 year Democratic party Re-alignment ," Sorry, Charlie. This years election proved that theory false. lets break it down and then show how it was President Obamas fault: ...
  5 days ago

• Three Bishops rumored to be in talks over abortion-escort nun

  
  Te Deum laudamus! — Authority: 133
  News (with photo) of a Dominican nun serving as a murder-mistress at an abortion clinic didnt escape the attention of three bishops: Several bishops have been monitoring the situation since news broke in recent weeks about Quinns volunteer work at a Hinsdale clinic, which was identified in published reports as ...
  5 days ago

• Spying on us doesn’t protect democracy. It undermines it – By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissent

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 431
  By Seumas MilneThere’s nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From the time of Elizabeth I’s spy chief Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent provocateurs of the years after Waterloo to the ... Related Posts B Corona Muslim among activists seeking probe of reported surveillance, ...
  5 days ago

• RAJINDER SAHOTA: ‘To paraphrase Gandhi, a society ought to be measured by how it treats its those most vulnerable amongst its members’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 128
  OLYMPICS GAMES SPENDING WOULD LIKELY HAVE ATTRACTED GANDHI’S ATTENTION IN A NEGATIVE WAY   With all the diatribes and insults being hurled at the Olympic torch protesters, it would be prudent to remind readers of the Charter rights that exist for all, not merely those who wish to vocalize their adulation for ...
  5 days ago

• Politics and projection of power

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 127
  Its a bit more than soft power, but a bit less than force. And a good question is, "What motivates the actions that look like interference?" China looks to export censorship A few days before the start of this years Melbourne International Film Festival its executive director received an "audacious" telephone ...
  6 days ago

• Go Tell Your Friends

  
  The Reluctant Optimist — Authority: 425
  Shamelessly stolen from Three Donia , but worth the misdemeanor charge because it says so much about yesterday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey and the efforts of good Americans to put a stop to the crap that is overwhelming our country right now. A little hyperbole? Perhaps. Or perhaps not, if you are as ...
  6 days ago

• Caroline Glick: On silencing dissent

  
  Jewish Internet Defense Force — Authority: 438
  Caroline Glick wrote another great one as she picks up on the news of the planned disruption of Dore Golds appearance at Brandeis to her usual own commentary here. Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next ...
  6 days ago

• Unsafe for Democracy: World War I and the U.S. Justice Department’s Covert Campaign to Suppress Dissent

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 141
  By William H. Thomas Jr. The University of Wisconsin Press Even the preface to Unsafe for Democracy makes William H. Thomas Jr.’s political stances abundantly clear, but impressively, his political leanings have no negative effect on either his literary voice or his scholarship. Unsafe for Democracy is a ...
  1 week ago

• tank man 2?

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Nerd to power: mathlete takes on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei When Khamenei asked if the audience had any questions, Vahidnia stood up and answered, " Yes, I have some words with you ." ( via )
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• It’s Cold Out Today, So Here’s Something To Keep You Warm

  
  The Reluctant Optimist — Authority: 425
  Had a busy weekend here.  First the neighbor’s annual Halloween party which, as usual, resulted in me staggering home after drinking way to much.  Fortunately it’s only about 150 feet to my house so in 11 years I’ve never gotten lost. Then Saturday night was Trick or Treating and I stayed home while loving ...
  1 week ago

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