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Is Bobby Jindal As Stupid As His Party?
“We’ve got to stop being the stupid party,”Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of the GOP’s brightest young stars, said in a much-anticipated speech last week at the party’s winter meeting. “We’ve got to...
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73 percent of Asian Americans voted for Obama
The Educational and Economic Achievements of Asian Americanshttp://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1002059?uid=3739776&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101735819667These remarkably...
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Chesterton: "On Education"
“Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine...
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Welcome to American Civilization
Alan: Are we happy yet? Or do we need more guns? "Figures show that there have been 16,808,538 applications in 2012 so far to the end of November. If they were approved, that would beenough weapons to...
View ArticleLargest Glacier "Calving" Ever Filmed. Like Manhattan Falling Into The Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/embed/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0Be sure to expand this (HD) video to Full Screen by clicking on the "rectangular" icon in the lower right-hand corner.
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"How many guns are sold in the US?" - The Guardian
Completed 9mm caliber cartridges.Alan: If ever a civilization deserve to dissolve it is this one. Excerpt: The figures show that there have been 16,808,538 applications in 2012 so far to the end of...
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Vegetarian diet cuts heart disease risk 32%
Vegetarian diet cuts heart disease riskBy Kounteya Sinha | Feb 1, 20131comments0inShareShare MoreAALONDON: This should make a majority of Indians happy. The risk of hospitalization or death from heart...
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It’s (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal
BY BRANDON KEIM01.31.13Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways.The particles aren’t truly...
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Gun Stories (including a reflection by Native American Sherman Alexie)
Gun Stories(with Dick Gordon)Alan: The interview with Native American Sherman Alexie is packed with surprises. For example... Although they vote Democratic, Reservations "Indians" may be the most...
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Dog finds lump of whale vomit worth $65K
Ken Wilman, pictured with his dog Madge and a yellowish stone which he hopes is a rare form of whale vomit, or ambergris, used in perfumes.AAP February 01, 2013 BRITISH man has been offered $A65,625...
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Less housework equals more sex for married men: Study
Married men who shirk traditional “female” housework have more sex with their wives than those who willingly pitch in with the cooking or cleaning, a new study says.By: Joseph Hall Staff Reporter,...
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Biblical Meaning
This is trebly true for The Four Gospels.(Scratch a fundamentalist and out comes the Old Testament. Without vengeance and punishment, the ranks of conservative Christianity shrink to single digits.We...
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Islam and Japan. (Another episode in "conservatism's" love affair with...
Dear John,Thanks for your email.Sadly, its content failed "the sniff test."Even the anti-Islam website, "Bare Naked Islam" gives "Islam and Japan" Four Pinocchios.But before you read the Bare Naked...
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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when..."
***Alan: Although Anne Lamott popularized the above saying, she got it from Jesuit friend, Tom Weston.Anne and Tom
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Orthodox Jews In Opposition To The Zionist State Of Israel
(The following excerpt is from "Holy Heretics Blogspot" - http://holyheretics.blogspot.com/)***Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (Hebrew: שלום דובער שניאורסאהן; 1860-10-24 OS - 1920-03-21 NS) was an Orthodox...
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Faulty Risk Assessment and The Epidemic Spread of Self-Terrorization
Annually, the Anopheles mosquito is responsible for transmitting a million fatal cases of malaria. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/03/malaria-deaths-researchDear G,Your forward - "New Muslim...
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How Scared Should We Be?
(Benedicte Kurzen for The New York Times; Michael Nagle for The New York Times; CDC/Jim Biddle)By TARA PARKER-POPEhttp://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/how-scared-should-we-be/Shark attacks, raging...
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Christian Science Monitor: Five greatest Super Bowl ads of all time (with video)
In addition to football, Super Bowl XLVII will bring a new crop of ads to rate, discuss, and chuckle over Monday morning. But while several Super Bowl ads hold our attention for hours or days, very few...
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"Regifting Robin." (Go ahead. Drive yourself nuts.)
Click here: Regifting RobinDear F,"Re-Gifting Robin" is fun!I knew "it" was a math trick but couldn't figure it out.Fortunately, "The Net Knows All."When you're ready to "spoil the fun," check out...
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Tom Toles: "I pried it into his cold dead hands."
"80% Of All Firearm Deaths In 23 Industrial Countries Occurred in The United States"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/80percent-of-all-firearms-deaths-in-23.html***The truth:Guns don’t kill...
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