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Remember Conservatives' Freakout Over Incandescent Bulb Ban? Now, Nobody Cares
Alan: In the 2008 presidential election, the recent ban on incandescent bulbs became a hot button issue among American conservatives. Nowadays anyone with a folded cortex is perfectly content with...
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Newly Released Recordings Reveal Beatles Before They Inspired Mass Mania
SUMMARYBefore the Beatles took America by storm, Paul, John, Ringo and George were featured on BBC radio programs 53 times. Those Beatles performances, recorded between 1962 and 1965, have now been...
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5 Tech Products That Will Be Dead in 5 Years (Time Magazine)
With the speed of innovation in the tech industry, we can’t know every piece of technology that will fill our everyday lives in five years, but we can predict what won’t last. As smartphones begin to...
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Now Republicans Have to Prove They Can Do Better Than Obamacare, Yeah. Right.
The Party of Nope has got nothing.Nada. Niente. Zilch.Unless you count the nihil of nihilism.The fate of "Republican healthcare" - arguably the most oxymoronic word combination in English -- is...
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Wall St. Journal Refers To Obamacare's "Hiccups" And Snags. No Real Problems
Alan: If every American acknowledged that the GOP is pathologically alarmist, the health of The Body Politic would improve tremendously.***"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than...
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Rush Limbaugh Is Right
A textbook attempt at psychological projection.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
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Conservative Fondness For Reductio Ad Absurdum. The Assault Pencil
Reductio Ad Absurdum And Other Logical Fallacieshttp://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
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New Yorker Cartoon: Liberals Contemplate Conservatives
Alan: Could we be at an evolutionary turning point and liberals are starting to see conservatives as the first homo sapiens saw homo neanderthalensis?
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The Three Stages Of Obamacare Acceptance
Alan: Before 2017, when Obamacare is not only accepted but cause for national celebration, will there be "Three Stages of Republican Repentance"for being fabulists, liars, and obstructionists?...
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Pot-Smoking David Brooks Makes An Interesting Argument Against Legalization
"[L]ike the vast majority of people who try drugs, we aged out. We left marijuana behind. I don't have any problem with somebody who gets high from time to time, but I guess, on the whole, I think...
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"World Concert Hall." Yes! You Can Listen To All These Concerts Free and "Live"
Yes, you really can listen to all of these classical concerts for free and live.http://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule-list/?wpisrc=nl_wonk
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Is The Economy Really Set To Take Off In 2014. Politico Asks Five Economists
Henry Ford's Path to Growthhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/henry-ford-radical-pacifist-and-working.html***Politico Interviews 5...
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"The Affordable Care Act Is Here To Stay," Eugene Robinson
By Eugene Robinson, Published: January 2, 2013Now that the fight over Obamacare is history, perhaps everyone can finally focus on making the program work the way it was designed. Or, preferably,...
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Charles Krauthammer Rankles At Realization: The ACA Was Written To Work
Alan: If Obamacare ever needs a "bailout," let us remember that (despite the nose-pinching odor) that the "bank bailout" and the "auto bailout" both worked - and worked well.Just like Obamacare --...
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Conservative Columnist Michael Gerson, Now Dying Of Cancer, Counsels The GOP
***"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html***By Michael Gerson, Published: January 2, 2014A...
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Imminent Obamacare Ad Blitz /// Will The GOP Ever Accept Obamacare?
GET READY FOR THE OBAMACARE AD BLITZ: National Journal’s Sam Baker makes a critical point: Opponents of the law are not the only ones who will be on the airwaves in coming months.For the most part,...
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U.S. Could Actually Hit Its 202 Climate Change Goals
With a bit of luck, the U.S. could actually hit its 2020 climate change goalsThis week, the U.S. State Department released its 2014 Climate Action Report, explaining how the Obama administration plans...
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Pope Francis: See World From The Periphery. "We Ought To Get Used To Thinking."
Pope Francis recently urged the faithful to understand reality by looking at it “from the periphery” in order to avoid becoming fundamentalists.Francis meet with 120 superiors general of men’s...
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Scientists: "Human-Induced Climate Change" To Blame For Austrialia's Hottest...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25573712***Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday, enduring the longest heatwave ever recorded Down Under...
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