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"Are Fearfulness and Protectiveness Characteristics of Social Conservatives?"
One person died in the accident pictured above.Although Americans are as likely to be struck by lightning TWICE than to be victims of terrorism, most citizens are preoccupied with "homeland security"...
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"24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship To Europeans And American Indians," NYT
Scientists studied the genome of a boy buried near Lake Baikal in Siberia and were amazed to find partly European ancestry.By NICHOLAS WADEPublished: November 20, 2013 191 CommentsThe genome of a young...
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Global Cooling: When The Climate Changed Astonishingly Fast
Oliver Cromwell's troops attack the town's civilians after the Siege of Drogheda in County Louth, September 1649.STORY HIGHLIGHTSDavid Frum: When we discuss climate change we act as if we have decades...
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Palin Cancels NBC Interview After MSNBC Host Proposes Scatological Punishment
The widening feud between Palin and NBC claims Matt Lauer as collateral damageBy Dan KedmeyNov. 20, 20138 CommentsSarah Palin has canceled an interview with NBC’s Today Show after a host on its sister...
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Sub Rosa, Phrase Derivation
sub rosaMEANING:adverb: Secretly, privately, or confidentially.ETYMOLOGY:From Latin sub (under) rosa (rose). Earliest documented use: 1654. The English term "under the rose" is also used to refer to...
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Voltaire On Justice And Wisdom
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoltaireWikiquotes: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire
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Voter Suppression The New GOP Strategy
"How Republicans Rig The Game"Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Magazinehttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-republicans-rig-game-tim-dickinson.html***"A Southerner Explains Tea Party Radicalism:...
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In 2012, Dems Got 3.1% More House Votes Than Repugs But Only 38% Of Seats
"Biggest Scandal In America. Democracy Trashed. No Outrage"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/biggest-scandal-in-american-politics.html***"How Republicans Rig The...
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E.J. Dionne and George Will Reflect On John F. Kennedy
The JFK we had and the memory that livesBy George F. Will, Published: November 20, 2013What he was, he was:What he is fated to becomeGeorge WillWill writes a twice-a-week column on politics and...
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JFK Gave "The Most Republican Speech Since McKinley," John Kenneth Galbraith
As president, JFK chose as Treasury secretary a Republican Wall Street banker, C. Douglas Dillon, who 30 years after the assassination remembered Kennedy as “financially conservative.” Kennedy’s fiscal...
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Ezra Klein: Filibuster Reform Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose
Ezra Klein: Back in January, the best arguments against filibuster reform had nothing to do with filibuster reform. They had to do with the rest of the Democrats' agenda."Speaker John Boehner said the...
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Healthcare Spending Growing At Slowest Rate On Record
Alan: If Mitt Romney were president and "Healthcare Spending (Was) Growing At Slowest Rate On Record," Republicans would focus on this single achievement as an epochal accomplishment wrought by The New...
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Ross Douthat: How To Read Republicans' Opportunity
Alan: My view of Douthat's proposal remains the same as it was when Michael Gerson made an analogous proposal. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/saving-republican-party-by-michael.html"[Sen....
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This Is How Much San Francisco Spent Giving Bat Kid His Wish
""You Didn't Build That" - Falsehood By Decontextualization"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/you-didnt-build-that-falsehood-by.html***"The Death of...
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This Chart Is Amazingly Good News For Our Health Cost Problem
By Sarah Kliff, Published: November 20, 2013This just might be my favorite chart about health care costs as of late. And it's one that contains billions of dollars' worth of good news!The chart, from...
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Will George Zimmerman Kill Again? His History And The Law Pose Serious Risks
George Zimmerman (Credit: Reuters/Joe Burbank)Alan: Zimmerman seems poised to kill himself or someone else.George Zimmerman appears to be a man unhinged. As has been well chronicled, the 30-year-old...
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GOP’s Existential Test: Why They’re Really Escalating A Nuclear Option Crisis
John Boehner, Mitch McConnell (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)Here are a couple questions with fairly obvious answers. (Spoiler alert, the answers are, “no,” and “no.”)1). If Mitt Romney were...
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How Women Change Men As Daughters, Sisters, Wives, And Co-Workers
Sarah Yager, November 20, 2013Soon after Jay Z welcomed his first child, Blue Ivy Carter, last year, a poem the rapper had reportedly dedicated to his new baby girl zipped around the Internet. “Before...
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Nine reasons the filibuster change is a huge deal
Goodbye, filibuster. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)By Ezra Klein, Published: November 21, 20131. The change the Senate made today is small but consequential: The filibuster no longer applies to judicial or...
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Tell A Friend NOT To Renew Canceled Insurance. Obamacare is MUCH better!
Want to debate Obamacare’s cancellations? You need to see this study first.By Sarah Kliff, Published: November 21, 2013About 15 million people currently purchase health insurance on their own, using...
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