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• Open Letter From the Peace Movement to President Obama on His Upcoming Decision Regarding the Afghan War

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 570
  by Cynthia McKinney Dear Mr. President: According to press reports, you intend to decide between November 7 and November 11 whether or not to send tens of thousands of American soldiers to Afghanistan. We are writing in advance of that decision to add our voice to those of Sen. Feingold, many House Democrats, and ...
  7 hours ago

• US urges North Korea to avoid provocative steps

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 14 (DPA) The US urged North Korea Friday to avoid taking any provocative steps following a clash earlier in the week between North and South Korean warships.Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to South Korea next week, Pyongyang issued a warning that the South Korean Army will “pay dearly” ...
  19 hours ago

• The Current Health Care Bill : Its a Mandate on Charities, Too

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Part of the story about who would feel the payroll tax on employers contained in the House-passed health care bill has gone missing. The media coverage Ive seen and the Congressional rhetoric Ive heard focuses on the small business lead by an entrepreneur who started the company. Thats part of the story, but it isnt ...
  1 day ago

• Why Do Terrible Politicians Struggle So Much With Metaphor?

  
  ATTACKERMAN — Authority: 705
  TPM LiveWire highlights this puzzling tweet from Colorado State Senator David Schultheis: Don’t for a second, think Obama wants what is best for U.S. He is flying the U.S. Plane right into the ground at full speed. Let’s Roll. Now most left-wing commentary has devoted ample (and amply deserved) digital ink ...
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• Greek Changing Paul

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 494
  The title of my post is ambiguous. You can read it as "Paul was changing the Greek language" and as "The Greek language of Paul was changing." Im talking about the Paul (or someone using his name) who used Greek to write much of the New Testament. His language changes through the various letters he wrote. And ...
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• Is that all you blighters can do?

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 471
  Subtitle: blighter (n. Chiefly British Slang) A fellow, especially one held in low esteem. Taken from blight, see “ a bad case of the humans “ HuffPo contributor Richard Greene wants to hear some words that we can believe in, to wit: The “CLEAN AMERICA Bill” IS: Our Children’s Energy Our ...
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• The service of the accepted image of economic life...

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  The Essential Galbraith The service of the accepted image of economic life to the political needs of the business firm—the large corporation in particular—is, in fact, breathtaking. Broadly speaking, it removes from the corporation all power to do wrong and leaves with it only the power to do right. Are its ...
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• How the New Player Changes the Game

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  THE LAST POST OR TWO have addressed the standard model within which health care reform is being debated. That model is a simple continuum, with socialism on the left and capitalism on the right: In practice, that model gives us only two choices—give the power to the wealthy, or give the power to the ...
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• The Cold Light of the Day After the Speech

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday .  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them: Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won’t do it justice. Yes, I’m having a Chris ...
  2 days ago

• Withers: What Carrie Prejean should have said

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  I promised not to waste any more space on Carrie Prejean unless it was discovered her parents were Dom DeLuise and Billie Holiday. Unfortunately that background is just a silly dream. Feel free to call me a liar. There is lots of pearls clutching over Prejean and her “ scandal .” As mentioned before, why ...
  2 days ago

• Britain will clamp down on skilled migrants too: Brown

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  London, Nov 12 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, besieged by immigration issues six months ahead of elections, Thursday whittled down a list of jobs that are open to highly-skilled migrants, declaring: “Immigration will fall.”Hospital consultants, civil engineers, aircraft engineers and ship’s officers ...
  2 days ago

• Is it safe to ignore Hugo Chávezs bellicose rhetoric?

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 134
  HUGO CHà VEZ recently found himself trying to explain, in a live television broadcast, why Venezuelans should limit themselves to three-minute showers. A national water shortage, the latest product of Mr. Chávezs "21st-century socialism," has led to mandatory rationing. Theres also a power shortage, which is ...
  2 days ago

• 405. Consent defense

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 117
  CBS News interviewed the psychologist David Lisak about "non-stranger rapes."  In just a few minutes he says a number of very interesting things.  For example, what if we prosecuted other crimes--say, auto theft--the way we prosecute rape?  Imagine the cross-examination: Q.  It is true, sir, is it not, that ...
  2 days ago

• For a successful technology...

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman [read more]
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• Words About Words

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 144
  Always be aware that there is a brief magical moment in every relationship when the right statement will change a life forever. ~ Ed Anderson and John E. Peterson, in Loving Words Every Child Needs To Hear (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998). By words the mind is excited and the spirit elated. ~ Aristophanes A man’s ...
  2 days ago

• The Third Option

  
  The Daily Mull - Ken Watts — Authority: 128
  THE CONTINUUM I PLACED health care on in the previous post was a simple line, stretching from Socialism, on the left, to Capitalism on the right: Using that model, our current health care system shows up about here: By contrast, the Democratic plan, in either of its configurations, shows up about here: ...
  3 days ago

• Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whos gonna do it?

  
  SEMPER REFORMANDA — Authority: 112
  A shout out to President Obama for a very nice memorial speech at Fort Hood yesterday. An excerpt: "It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know - no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. And for what ...
  3 days ago

• Honor our veterans and don’t efface their experience with ideology: Freakonomics & the draft.

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 420
  More and more I get the feeling that “ Freakanomics ” is the application of economic thinking that oversimplifies human behavior to the analysis of actions that economics typically doesn’t address. The thinking goes that if people are left free to make choices about what to do for themselves, society as a whole ...
  3 days ago

• What word frequently found in profusion in Obamas speeches is entirely absent from his Fort Hood speech?

  
  Althouse — Authority: 739
  I. Also missing: me, my, mine. I heard the criticism — from my husband Meade who is reading the speech alongside me — that the Fort Hood speech needed another draft, because there was too much use of the passive voice. I suspected that a special effort had been made to eliminate the first person singular. ...
  3 days ago

• Obama at Fort Hood: "It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 739
  "But this much we do know — no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor.  For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next." A fine speech. Read the whole thing. Based on this quote, Ill raise one ...
  3 days ago

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