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Michael Gerson Details Tea Party's Ideological Bender & Emergence From Delirium
Alan: Gerson's Tea Party observations alsoapply to the moribund state of Christian conservatism.***As Mr. Gerson's prostate cancer gets worse, his writing becomes more insightful. Approaching death...
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Budget Deficit Plummeting /// Republicans Propose Sane Tax Reform
You will not find this information on Fox News.***Federal budget deficit falls to smallest level since 2008. "Closing the books on a fiscal year in which the federal budget deficit fell more sharply...
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Religious Liberty: Loophole For Bigotry
Or, the unspeakable possibility that God does not hate anyone...***'You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.' Tom Weston S....
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David Brooks: Michel De Montaigne And Samuel Johnson. The Greatest Essayists...
Montaignehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MontaigneExcerpt: Soon after his birth, Montaigne was brought to a small cottage, where he lived the first three years of life in the sole company of a peasant...
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The Fed's Curse Of Academic Uniformity
Fed Chief Janet Yellen"Neil Fligstein, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, argues in a recent paper that the broader problem was cultural. The Fed increasingly is dominated...
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The Dark Psychology Of Being A Good Comedian
Comedian Tin Vodopivec performs.New research shows that the best humor is both a little bit wrong and a little bit right. Is there something about comedians that makes them better at subversion?OLGA...
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Why Republicans Themselves Turned On Arizona Bigotry Law
Why Republicans themselves shot it down. "The decision by members of the Republican establishment to join gay activists in opposing the bill reflected the alarm the Arizona battle stirred among party...
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What your name says about your politics.
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Insurance Companies Champion Obamacare
Alan: To understand American healthcare -- whether private sector or public -- Americans need to undertake more thoughtful research than most citizens are willing to conduct.Understood in context,...
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Fait Accompli: Full Throttle Oil Exploitation Off Atlantic Coast
Macondo SpillWhat we know:Fossil fuels will become more expensive and solar energy will get cheaper.***"India's Solar Power Cost Edging Ever Closer To...
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Puneet Kollipara Is Your Next Wonkbooker
Wonkbook: Puneet Kollipara is your next WonkbookerBY EVAN SOLTASFebruary 28 at 7:54 amWelcome to Wonkbook, Wonkblog’s morning policy news primer by Evan Soltas. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send...
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What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks
Satchmo: "What A Wonderful World"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGKqH26xlgOn October 31, 1965, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. As a...
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Christian Defense Of Slavery Preached From The Pulpit
"A Glance at the 1851 Book Bible Defence of Slavery"http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/10/31/a-glance-at-the-1851-book-bible-defence-of-slavery/***Excerpts: "Bible Defence of Slavery,"...
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Weird enuf fer ya? News From Barbaria #4
Watch heckler inside Supreme Court shout 'money is not speech'The long, sordid history of discrimination against Christians in AmericaO'Reilly: 'There's gotta be some downside to having a woman...
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Republicans Block Senate Bill To Boost Veterans' Benefits
"Hey, pal! As soon as you finish that shit sandwich, dessert's free!"***Christian Science...
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"Natural History Is The Antidote For Piety": "A Natural History Of Natural...
Radiant Inventories: A Natural History of the Natural HistoriesBy Christian Bökhttp://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol32/bok.htm
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Republicans Join Populists On Big Bank Attack
Alan: Since Obama "saved the world's economy" only by providing "life support" for too big to fail banks, he may feel a certain indebtedness to these financial parasites. Perhaps he think it could not...
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Major Labor Unions Are Paying For The Republican Party's Civil War
The Republican Main Street Partnership, led by former Ohio Congressman Steven LaTourette, plans to spend millions of dollars in the 2014 midterm elections supporting what it calls "the governing wing...
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Planting Asparagus
Velocius quam asparagi coquanturFaster than asparagus can be cookedAscribed to Augustus by Suetonius in The Twelve CaesarsThis phrase can refer to anything done very quickly. A common variant is...
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Teen's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000.00
Sometimes one must resist the urge to share what's new.Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty ImagesSo Dana Snay, a Miami teenager, is probably in big trouble right now. As the Miami Herald reports, an...
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