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• Dear Anti-NATO protestors: What are you for?

  
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  Dear Anti-NATO Protestors: I get it. Honest, I do. Youre against the war in Afghanistan. Well, so am I. Now what? Chanting is great; thinking, though, is better. We went into Afghanistan, in the aftermath of 9/11, because the Taliban regime was harboring -- serving as a base of operations for -- Al Qaeda, the ...
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• What were they doing over there?

  
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  The selection of Confederate reports for the battle of Chattanooga that made it into the Official Records is skimpy.  There is a report from Bragg, the army commander, but not from either of his corps commanders, Hardee or Breckenridge, and there are no reports from several of the division commanders or their ...
  5 days ago

• Arthur Brooks: true fairness means rewarding merit, not spreading the wealth

  
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  Arthur Brooks is an economist, a Christian and the President of my third favorite think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. He has been making a push lately to convince conservatives to become more articulate when making the case for the free enterprise system. One of his major ideas is that happiness is not ...
  6 days ago

• A Blogger at NATO 2012, What I Saw on Day One

  
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  -By Warner Todd Huston I was awarded press credentials for NATO’s 2012 Summit in Chicago and, having no idea what to expect, what I found on day one was a study in contrasts. What occurred was sometimes amusing, often mundane, and sometimes even violent. But it was all democracy in action. Early on the morning [...]
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• Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse

  
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  Paul Craig Roberts Infowars.com May 21, 2012 The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled “police ...
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• The Demise of White America

  
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  Recently it was disclosed in the news that white births in America are now less than 50% of all births.  Many conservatives find this fact depressing, as do I.  I am far from a "white supremacist" or "white centrist," but I find myself struggling to understand the far-reaching implications of white decline. Around ...
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• Animal Anthropomorphists and their ‘Bullied’ Dolphin

  
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  -By Warner Todd Huston Dolphins smile, you know? Oh, and they have a bigger brain than a human, too. Ipso facto, they are the most intelligent creature on the earth, or something. How often do we hear the animal rights nuts make these statements? Well, now add downtrodden, bullied, and sad to the anthropomorphist’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who is futureproofing Singaporean art? 26 young artists in SAM survey

  
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  SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY EMERGING ARTISTS A survey of Singaporean contemporary art, titled “The Singapore Show: Future Proof”, closed at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) on 15 April 2012. Co-curated by Khairuddin Hori and David Chew, the exhibition presented over 35 pieces of artwork produced by 26 ...
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• Conservative Charity vs Liberal Government

  
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  Republicans want to kill grandma. Republicans want to kill sick people. Republicans want poor people to starve and die. Republicans want blacks dead or enslaved. Republicans want hispanics imprisoned or gone. Republicans want the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Republicans want to poison the water ...
  4 weeks ago

• There’s Something Here That Will Offend You

  
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  -By Gary Krasner This article includes a discussion of sex and nudity. I just wanted that caveat up front. So don’t complain. I’d like to comment on two bits of recent curiosities in the news. The first story was reported on March 27, 2012. The computer hacker who had leaked nude photos of actress Scarlett [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Rachel Maddow Reads Personal Letter She Received From Rick Santorum

  
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  Even though Rick Santorum is out of the presidential race, his words continue to reverberate throughout the minds of voters. And in the halls of MSNBC, where Rachel Maddow has been hammering away at Santorum for his claim that universities in California do not teach American history, despite the fact that they, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rachel Maddow Reads Personal Letter She Received From Rick Santorum

  
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  Even though Rick Santorum is out of the presidential race, his words continue to reverberate throughout the minds of voters. And in the halls of MSNBC, where Rachel Maddow has been hammering away at Santorum for his claim that universities in California do not teach American history, despite the fact that they, ...
  4 weeks ago

• HOTTER THAN THAT: HENRY “RED” ALLEN AND FRIENDS, 1932-33

  
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  Thanks to the indefatigable jazz scholar Franz Hoffmann, here are four hot records featuring Henry “Red” Allen and Pee Wee Russell, Fats Waller, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Condon, Zutty Singleton, among others.  The band name was the RHYTHMAKERS and Philip Larkin was not alone in thinking this series of hot records ...
  4 weeks ago

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