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• Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On

  
  theway2ks blog — Authority: 129
  In comparison to Western ideals of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness which includes free speech and religious freedom, Islam is an evil antithetical to the American paradigm. One example of this evil is how proponents of Islam will sa... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 days ago

• Dangerous Journalism

  
  Shadow of Diogenes — Authority: 434
  According to the Committee to Protect Journalists 69 journalists were killed around the world in 2009. Some of them appeared to have been targeted. This is according to Reuters. Real journalism, as opposed to what passes for journalism and is really agenda driven opinion, is to be respected. Unfortunately it ...
  1 week ago

• The divil you say ...

  
  YayaCanada — Authority: 129
  Some say the divil is dead, the divil is dead, the divil is dead. Some say the divil is dead and burried in Killarney, More say he rose again, more say he rose again, More say he rose again and joined the British army Video (1) Canada/Israel I came across this article and thought that its a good indication ...
  1 week ago

• Obama and Human Rights: Wasted Opportunities and Diplomatic Incontinence

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The president accepted his Nobel Peace Prize last week on the grounds that in some case it is necessary to go to war to preserve the peace, a nice act of philosophical jujitsu that, had it been tried by George W. Bush, would have met with charges of sinister doublespeak. But Barack Obama’s undeserved award, coming as ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Which a Telco Executive Makes Taking Sound Like Giving [Blockquote]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 891
  Given just this quote from AT&T;s mobile CEO, youd be forgiven for thinking that "those small percentages"—heavier mobile data users—are going to gain something for reducing their usage....
  2 weeks ago

• Does America Have A Muslim Problem?

  
  The Manrilla Blog | Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences — Authority: 115
  In a recent article featured in The New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven postulates on the continuing question of Islam in Europe.  She interrogates the question by examining Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, in tandem with Tariq Ramadan’s What I ...
  2 weeks ago

• SAY WHUT?

  
  YayaCanada — Authority: 129
  (1) Court lingo Judge loosens leash on [Mohamed] Mahjoub Terrorism suspect has right to run errands and pray at a nearby mosque without having federal agents shadowing him at all times, federal court judge rules ... But the Federal Court judge ruled instead that terrorism suspects can change over time and ...
  3 weeks ago

• A little help from my friends ....

  
  YayaCanada — Authority: 129
  Mareta , located in Spain but watching the west like a sharp-eyed hawk, has been writing my blog for me the last couple of days while I get some other things done. Im hard-pressed to disagree with anything she says, and I gotta say, the first video cracked me up when the young female narrator called the Quink "that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Democrats May March To Protest Own Failed Policies

  
  Bucks Right — Authority: 133
  Eager to get in on all this Tea Partying that’s been going around, a group of Congressional Democrats are threatening to march on Washington to protest their own failed President and the failed policies instituted under their overwhelming Congressional majority.About that protest thing…I think you’re doing it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Washington Times to Become a 21st Century Multimedia Company, Fire Almost Half Its Staff [Flackery]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  The Moonie-owned Washington Times today issued all 370 employees a WARN Act notice, which is required 60 days in advance of layoffs that involve 100 or more people. Michael Calderone reports that the paper will be shedding around 40% of its staff . In the press release, though, this devastating cut is just a part ...
  4 weeks ago

• Orwellian lies, Obama camp brainwashing, Obama eligibility, Obama not natural born citizen, Mail Online, London, British Isles, 1984, George Orwell, Nazi Germany

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 573
  “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed –if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”… George Orwell, “1984″   This is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Huckabee’s hypocrisy

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 473
  The former governor munching on a Huckaburger that hed try to prevent you from eating. Credit: Reuters According to this Twitter account , if former Governor Mike Huckabee’s lips are moving, he’s lying.  Let put that statement to a test. Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview transcript (emphasis ...
  4 weeks ago

• English teachers council gives Glenn Beck the Doublespeak Award

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Glenn Beck was just named the 2009 winner of an award he would probably rather not have received (or maybe he would, under the principle that all publicity is good publicity): The “Doublespeak Award,” given annually by the National Council of Teachers of English. The nonprofit group, which promotes literacy ...
  4 weeks ago

• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 571
  What does an Indiana lawsuit teach us about the bizarre incentives school districts use to reward teacher performance when there are no incentives to reward teacher performance? (National Council on Teacher Quality) If traditional public schools need school resource officers, do charter school kids require ...
  5 weeks ago

• The War of the Whoppers

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 473
  For some time, it looked like Republicans were more persuasive liars than their counterparts in DC. After all, they (with the assistance of Judith Miller and The New York Times ) convinced a great deal of Americans that aluminum tubes had been intercepted which were to be used to create nuclear bombs. Visions of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Why It Pays to Look Stuff Up

  
  ThoughtCrimes.org — Authority: 428
  There’s been a bit of a stir a Right Wing bumpersticker and slogan making the rounds – “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" The verse in question is from one of the angrier psalms and reads: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” It then goes on to say, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife ...
  5 weeks ago

• Government Is Good, Don’cha Know

  
  Homeland Stupidity — Authority: 500
  After years of writing about how governments abuse, murder, and imprison innocent people and destroy life around the world, I find that I have been wrong, really wrong. All this time, I wrongfully tried to convince readers that terrible things are done in the name of “good government,” and now I have to apologize ...
  5 weeks ago

• History and Geography Rejected in School Curricula in Favour of “Blogging and Climate Change”

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 587
  New changes in school curricula announced by the Government will see history and geography dropped in favour of “blogging and climate change.” According to Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, some 13 stand-alone subjects will be merged into six so-called “areas of learning.” History and geography will be ...
  5 weeks ago

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