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"Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War" by Martin van...
By Martin Van CreveldNovember 25, 2005Forwardhttp://forward.com/articles/2314/costly-withdrawal-is-the-price-to-be-paid-for-a-fo/The number of American casualties in Iraq is now well more than 2,000,...
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What Do You think? Would Islamic Countries Benefit...
What do you think?Would Islamic countries benefit from more self-medication?(Notice that Turkey - the "sanest" country in the Middle East - drinks more than the rest.)
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Racism Memorialized At Duke University
Racism: Law School terminates Willis Smith Award for graduate with highest academic achievement. Fact Checker to target Aycock dorm next semesterDuke Fact...
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Senator Ted Cruz: "We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate.”
U.S. Senate Candidate Willis Smith's 1950 campaign poster. Smith employed Jesse Helms in that campaign as researcher and strategist, later employing him as Senate...
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Jesse Helms: Quotations and Vignettes
"Conservatives and Jesse Helms" - http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/conservatives-a.html - is the best compendium of Helms' quotations and Helms' vignettes. The substance of...
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"Think Again: You Don’t Know Jesse Helms"
Senator Jesse Helms celebrates winning his fifth term to the U.S. Senate in 1996.By Eric Alterman and George Zornick | July 10, 2008When Senator Jesse Helms, former Republican of North Carolina,...
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Pope Francis: New Popemobile Is An Old Renault. The Vow Of Poverty Becomes...
Pope Francis, right, speaks with Rev. Renzo Zocca, second from right, after Zocca donated his Renault 4L to the pope, Sept. 11, 2013.***Alan: Upon election as pope, Francis stressed his desire for "a...
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Chesterton Probes The Myth Of Midas
Speaking about the instinct that makes people rich, Gilbert Keith Chesterton remarks: In the olden days its existence was fully understood. The Greeks enshrined it in the story of Midas, of the 'Golden...
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The Borowitz Report: McCain Accuses Obama Of Thinking Before Using Force
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) was harshly critical today of President Obama’s nationally televised address about Syria, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “The President’s decision to think before...
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Diane Rehm: Implications Of Wealth Inequality In The United States
In this photo provided by the Chicago Yacht Club, yachts in the cup division pass the Chicago skyline at the start of the Race to Mackinac sailboat race across Lake Michigan, Saturday, July 13,...
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America Is Nuts
New rifle mimics machine gun. Fires 450 rounds per minute."Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html***New Rifle Mimics...
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Hank Paulson: This Is What It Was Like to Face the Financial Crisis
Sept. 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 in the largest-ever U.S. bankruptcySeptember 12, 2013People weren’t taking Dick Fuld’s calls the weekend before Sept. 15, because Dick had been in...
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Putin's Op-Ed In The New York Times. Exceptionalism: Pride Before A Fall?
39 Photoshttp://www.businessinsider.com/39-photos-of-vladimir-putin-2013-3?op=1***Obama Replies To...
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Voyager 1 Is The First Hman-Made Object To Leave Solar System, Enter...
NASA: Voyager 1 has left heliosphereSTORY HIGHLIGHTSStudy: Voyager 1 left heliosphere around August 25, 2012Voyager 1 and 2 were launched in 1977, 16 days apartVoyager 1 is now the first mission to...
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Syrian Crisis Resolved: Jon Stewart In Top Form Ridiculing The Commentariat
"Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons."Excerpt: "I get that Fox opposes the Syria...
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China Bans New Coal Fired Plants Near Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong
9/12/2013 China’s State Council has announced that it is banning the construction of new coal-fired power plants near Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong. The goal is to cut air pollution in the...
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