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H.L. Mencken: "The State"
Alan: Mencken's implicit opposition to collecting public revenue ignores the foundational fact that "taxes are the price we pay for civilization."In this passage, Mencken's appeal to "belief" is at...
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H.L. Mencken: On Love
Alan: Yes, love is the triumph of imagination of intelligence. As Einstein put it: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire...
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H.L. Mencken did not say this.
The above "quotation" is a "conservative" confection, an attempt to invoke the presumed Authority of Falsehood rather than the actual authority of Truth.The deliberate displacement-of-truth-by-fantasy...
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: "Don’t confuse truth-tellers with traitors"
By Katrina vanden Heuvel, Published: April 16, 2013Excerpt: "John Kiriakou has not been so lucky. The CIA officer revealed that torture was widespread in the CIA, and, on January 25, 2013, he was...
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NYT: Independent Report Concludes "U.S. Engaged In Torture After 9/11"
By SCOTT SHANEPublished: April 16, 2013 705 CommentsWASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...
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SUMMARYAfter a two-year investigation, bipartisan legal research and advocacy group the Constitution Project released a report confirming that the United States engaged in torture after the 9/11...
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"Vagina's and Children First!" Are All Republicans From Kolob?
'Disrespectful': State Rep Peter Hansen has been criticized after referring to women as 'vaginas' in an email on a New Hampshire House internal email'Shameful and sexist': Republican lawmaker...
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"Cowboy Hat Hero" of Boston Bombings Is Famed Peace Activist
http://gawker.com/5994736/cowboy-hat+wearing-hero-of-boston-bombings-is-famed-peace-activist(Lee Siu Hin, National Immigrant Solidarity Network: I personally known Carlos Arredondo and his family for...
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Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
In the science fiction movie Prometheus (2012), the building blocks of life were provided by a proto-humanRELATED Earth's Blue Marble Beauty: PhotosHow Ancient Life May Have Come AboutAPR 17, 2013 //...
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Official's Wife Says Husband - A Justice Of The Peace - Shot DA. (Rick Perry...
Texas Governor Rick PerryAmusing himself with a weapon specifically designed to kill human beings.What a guy!A Real American.Alan: Don't miss Gov. Rick Perry's allegation that this crime was...
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As a boy, I idolized this photo
50 years later, the Cowboy and Indian motif is gone.Vanished.Smoke.
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Divine Despair
The contemporary GOP is essentially hopeless.Desparate.Ready for the Armageddon duke-out.
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Official's Wife Says Justice Of The Peace Husband Shot DA. (Rick Perry says...)
Texas Governor Rick PerryAmusing himself with a weapon specifically designed to kill human beings.Is this guy an American hero? Or what?Alan: Don't miss Gov. Rick Perry's allegation that this crime...
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'Western' Diet Doesn't Make for Healthy Seniors
Americans don't eat right, don't drink right and don't walk enough.Heroic Medicine is pretty good at patching us up. But we do everything in our power to make ourselves unfit for old age.***Download...
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