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Foxx, you’re an Idiot!

posted 7 months ago | 3 comments
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congresswoman said Thursday SHE CHOSE HER WORDS POORLY when she called claims that a Wyoming college student was murdered because he was gay a "hoax."

Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said during debate in the H...

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Churchill vs Cheney

posted 7 months ago | 0 comments
The West has been attacked many times before by barbarians. As someone who grew up in Southern England between London and the Channel, this was perhaps more obvious to me than to some Americans.

In the countryside around my home, there were stil...

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GOP – ‘Moron of the Week”

posted 7 months ago | 1 comment
Michael Steele – RNC Chairman

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[T]he Republican National Committee Chairman said it was "not only disrespectful, but downright rude" of Specter to make this decision after the national party made it clear it would stand behind him in...

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Dems in power during flu, Bachmann notes

posted 7 months ago | 4 comments
It was only a matter of time before the CDC discovered an outbreak of Michele 'Petunia' Bachmann quotes.

Bachmann, speaking on Pajamas TV, noted: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another...

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Size does matter

posted 7 months ago, updated 9 minutes later | 4 comments
Q: Do Surgical Masks STOP Swine Flu?

A: Probably not.

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As the swine flu outbreak deepens, panicked citizens of North America are donning face masks. In Mexico City's downtown square, the Zócalo, for example, the army handed out face masks, a...

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Speaking of swine, holy krap!

posted 7 months ago | 2 comments
Rolling Stone – December, 2006

“America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat.”

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More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops

posted 7 months ago | 0 comments
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout.

The...

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Apparatchiks - Krugman

posted 7 months ago, updated 13 minutes later | 2 comments
Adam Serwer writes about Jay Bybee’s attempt to get off the hook:

So Bybee knew he was breaking the law in allowing the use of torture, but you have to understand, he only did it because he really wanted to be a federal judge. That’s not exculpat...

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The Banality of Bush White House Evil - Rich

posted 7 months ago | 1 comment
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Still, it’s not Bybee’s perverted lawyering and pornographic amorality that make his memo worthy of special attention. It merits a closer look because it actually does add something new — and, even after all we’ve heard, something shocking...

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U.S. Questions Pakistan’s Will to Stop Taliban

posted 7 months ago | 1 comment
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As the Taliban tightened their hold over newly won territory, Pakistani politicians and American officials on Thursday sharply questioned the government’s willingness to deal with the insurgents and the Pakistani military’s d...

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