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How To Diagnose What's Making You Chronically Late
Do you find yourself apologizing constantly because you’re chronically late? Do your friends not even bother to show up until at least 15 minutes after they told you to arrive, knowing they’ll still need to wait for you? Read more...    
Mubarak to stay behind bars despite bail
Court orders ex-president's release over deaths of protesters after expiry of maximum temporary detention of two years.
Alberta Liberals hope for Trudeau-inspired boost
Alberta Liberals are pinning their hopes to new leader Justin Trudeau, in the belief his star power may be what it takes to loosen the Conservatives’ grip on the province. “Southern Alberta’s a tough nut to crack, but there’s going to be a lot of people who are going to do their darnedest to make it happen and I fully expect one of the most engaged campaigns we’ve seen in a long time,” Calgary lawyer and longtime Liberal Daryl Fridhandler said Sunday. “I think Justin draws people in, draws young people in.”

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The First Casualty of the National Science Foundation Funding Cut for Political Science
If you belong to APSA, you probably got the email announcing the last-minute closure of the Ralph Bunch Summer Institute because of the Coburn (left) amendment. Undergraduate programming like this is obviously pretty vulnerable. It doesn’t have the cache of high-profile, ‘big think’ research. But it does obviously endanger the discipline in the long-term by cutting into our future replacements (a
Top of the Morning: G8 Fights Rape in War; It Gets Better, Uruguay Edition; New Food Security Index
Top stories from DAWNS Digest G8 Reaches Landmark Agreement to Fight Rape as a Weapon of War A London meeting of foreign ministers from the G8 took some concrete steps to end this global scourge of war. “G8 states had agreed on six major steps to tackle the culture of impunity…including nearly $35.5 million (£23 million) in new funding from the G8 for the issue, including more than £10 million fr
Desi AND Brad Guest Hosting 'The Young Turks'
So...funny thing. After yesterday's BradCast on KPFK, I drove the delightful Desi Doyen (of our Green News Report) out to The Young Turks' studio where she was scheduled to guest host once again last night. Two minutes or so before airtime, the third guest-host had yet to arrive. Guess who was drafted into last-minute duty? Unshaven, jacket-free and prep-less, the show went on. With Desi, myself
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Soylent Green – FLNWO #04
This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order we talk to James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com about Soylent Green, the 1973 sci-fi movie based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. We discuss the differences between the book and the movie, the eminent personage who wrote the introduction to the book, and how the story has been used to predictively program some of th
Bail-in: The Birth of the New Financial Order
by James Corbett GRTV.ca April 10, 2013 Those who follow the markets closely know that, at base, the current financial system is founded not on the bedrock of sound economic principles but instead upon the quicksand of public perception. All it takes is one large bump in the road to upset even the largest of economic bandwagons and usher in a new financial paradigm. In the ongoing meltdown of the
Meet The 9/11 Whistleblowers
CLICK HERE to continue watching the full report on BoilingFrogsPost.com by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com April 9, 2013 Last week on this program we explored the tired old cliche that is the last refuge of a skeptic who cannot refute the evidence of systemic criminality in the halls of governmental power or the bowels of the intelligence agencies: “But someone would have talked.” As often as t
Interview 646 – Radio Liberty: The Velocity of Money
This week on his weekly appearance with Dr. Stan Monteith on Radio Liberty, James Corbett discusses the factors affecting the economic fallout of quantitative easing, from the velocity of money to currency devaluations to market perceptions. James and Dr. Stan also take your calls on a range of issues and topics.
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South Korea Theme Park Forced to Return Dolphins Back to the Sea
Dolphins' journey to freedom highlights ethical issues of keeping cetaceans in captivity
Exxon’s Paper Towel Clean Up
It seems that company has been dumping oil from its Mayflower spill in a wetlands area after all
US Fisheries Service to Expand Dolphin Safe Tuna Certification Requirements
Proposed rule seeks better verification of dolphin safety during tuna fishing, addresses WTO’s concerns about uniform standards
Climate Denialism has Peaked, So What Are We Going to Do Now?
We need action on the scale that’s actually necessary, rather than the scale that appears to be possible.
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Road Tripping Part II
by Doctor Science Part I was New Jersey to Ithaca, NY. We stayed overnight in Ithaca, visited Cornell the next day, then left in the afternoon to drive to my parents’ place in eastern Connecticut. We drove back on NY 79, then took NY 206 east. Google Map with Terrain, showing our route on the second leg of our trip. I've removed most of our route inside CT. Click for full version, 1517x561px.
Watch the skies
by Doctor Science The aurora borealis may be visible from New Jersey tonight! Also New York, Philadelphia, DC, and much of Ohio! From Accuweather. Graphic by Al Blasko. A solar flare that occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday morning may create a spectacular display of northern lights Saturday evening. The midlevel flare had a long duration and was directed at Earth.Viewing conditions in my area *may*
Tax Simplification vs. Tax Reform
A commenter asks "What are the chances of any kind of meaningful simplification (never mind reform) of the tax code any time soon?" The answer is: slim to none on both.  "Tax simplification" is everyone'ssecond choice here in DC, which is to say that everyone (individuals, the Congress, companies, etc.) has their preferred tax favors that are much more important than any ki
Bird of the Week: American Woodcock
by Doctor Science In our Passover service last Monday night, we quoted from the Song of Songs 2:11-12:See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.One of the characteristic harbingers of spring in these parts is not quite so sweet-voiced:   Direct YouTube link. That's the me
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“Museveni abhorring Impunity! Phew!” ‏by Nkwazi Mhango
I will be shocked if the legal fraternity in Kenya and East Africa in general won’t react towards recent salvos leveled by Ugandan Strong man Yoweri Museveni. I still wonder how Museveni talks about legal matters without consulting with his lawyers if he happens to use them. Museveni’s recent attacks on the International Criminal Court (ICC) must be condemned. During the swearing-in of Kenya’s ne
African Leadership Academy
Greeting’s Everyone! I first have to say that the post Rant from a BlackYo Da! is a good article. Education is the key. America is already behind in Math and Science. We need to be competitive and it starts with parent’s getting involved.  The story hit home for me because I don’t know where  I would be without my parent’s involvement. I barely made it out of high school and my undergraduate degre
Rebel Flag and Old Glory: Symbols of Oppression
One of the controversies being bandied about by the African-American community with regards to Brad Paisley song: “Accidental Racist”, is that for him the Confederate Flag is a symbol of his “Southern Pride”. “To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand When I put on that t-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I’m a Skynyrd fan The red flag on my chest s
Rant from a BlackYo Da!
Read and listen Black people! The success of the student isn’t predicated on whether or not the teacher believes in the student. That’s horse shit. Student success depends on parental involvement. I know the blue birds understand this. Now let me break it down for the buzzards: No child fails K – 3. It’s the parents who fail and must repeat the grade along with their children. Let me break it down
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Towards fumigant-free fields
After cancer-causing methyl iodide was pulled from the U.S. market last year, California state officials convened a panel to investigate ending reliance on all fumigant pesticides (like methyl iodide) in strawberry fields. Yesterday, the Department of Pesticide Regulation released the panel's report detailing current research to help strawberry growers transition away from using fumigant pesti
Rubber-stamping pesticides?
Last week, our colleagues at NRDC released a compelling new report that highlights just how broken the pesticide approval process really is. The report spotlights the problem of so-called “conditional” registrations, a streamlined approval process that pesticide manufacturers use to rush their products to market — while EPA turns a blind eye. read more
Stacked in favor of Monsanto & Co.
Well, it's been signed. The biotech rider, or the "Monsanto Protection Act," as it has been appropriately dubbed, was signed into law last week by President Obama. What does this mean, and why is everyone so upset about it? For me, this sneaky little earmark, which was introduced anonymously into the short-term funding bill to keep the government afloat, is just one more example of a
New science: "Pesticide soup" scrambles bee brain function
Two new studies confirm that common pesticides are scrambling the circuits of bees’ brains. Researchers report that certain neonicotinoids and an organophosphate pesticide — particularly in combination — interfere with the insects' ability to learn, smell or remember, all critical capacities for foraging honey bees. The new studies add to a growing body of evidence pointing to pesticides as a
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Crass
In the week they took hundreds of pounds from people in severe poverty, MPs and Lords claim up to £3,750 each to return from their luxury holidays to spout off in honour of Margaret Thatcher. Meantime the media are busy classifying any potential protest or expression of opinion at the taxpayer funded funeral jamboree as “potential terrorism”. Whether protest at the funeral is tasteful or not is a
Nuclear Nightmare
A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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How Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community
The Harvard Business Review has a piece this month on research by Lawrence Frank, Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia, on the effects of cul-de-sacs in neighborhoods in King County, Washington. He found that residents in areas with the most interconnected streets travel 26% fewer miles by automobile than those in areas [...]
How Much Gas Does Your State Use Per Person?
Now I know how can I pass a drug test. CLICK TO ENLARGE While states with the highest populations unsurprisingly tend to use the most gas, the real fuel efficiency picture comes when you examine each state’s fuel consumption per capita. With that factor added, a very different scenario emerges: High-use states like New York [...]
Gallery: North Korea’s Secret Infrastructure
Last year, two Austrian tourists managed to enter North Korea by train at a border crossing that has been closed to foreigners since 1994. Lucky for us, they took lots of pictures. Below are a few samples from their extensive documentation of their trip (see the full visual and narrative account here, here and here). They also hit Pyongyang–a [...]
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Data leak exposes offshore financial secrets A world wide problem
This will be a long ongoing story. Reporters have a couple of million document to sift through. This is just a tiny sample of what has been found so far. Added an update for April 5th at the bottom. April 4 2013 They sought the utmost secrecy in offshore tax havens. But now some of the world’s wealthiest citizens are having their undisclosed financial records laid bare. An unprecedented leak of do
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Bits and Pieces - April 2, 2013
Nature's drone, pretty and deadly. Dragonflies. Not really drones, they know what they're doing. Some very nice videos.When we loved Form 1040. When it was possible to fill it out without computer aid. Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.Is this a pandemic being born? I've been wondering that about those dead pigs in China.Michael Eisen and Richard van Noorden on the future of scholarly
Same-Sex Marriage in the Supreme Court
Today and tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).This Court is famously conservative. But the Court is not totally isolated from public opinion. Its decision could be on broad or narrow grounds; previous decisions have tended to be broader than expected.The concer
Bits and Pieces - March 24, 2013
Ronald Dworkin on what makes a religion.Bringing development and sustainability goals together.The most important thing that has been written in the past few years on cancer care.How the "job creators" think about themselves.A treaty to regulate trade in conventional arms.Crappy security on the internet.Looking at the future of energy with BP and Exxon Mobil.
What I Got Right And Wrong About The Iraq War
Ten years ago, I was not yet blogging. But I had an opinion about the accusations against Iraq. Bits and pieces of it might still be excavated from dead or dying discussion forums. I’ll expand here. I have to start by going back further than that.The 1991 Iraq war had served up a big surprise for those of us following nuclear issues: Saddam Hussein’s electromagnetic separation project. Who’d have
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This Place Is A Pit—I’m Still Here
Above you see a picture of a mining pit of one kind or another that I saw from the airplane when I was flying back home to Houston from Los Angeles last week. Here are recent articles about mining from the great British newspaper The Guardian. I’ve not been posting much on Texas Liberal of late, but I am working on a new project. I’m working on a new website that I plan to have up and running soo
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Digging Deep for New Conflict
If Herod the Great was a controversial figure of his time, 2,000 years on the controversy isn’t about his legacy; it’s about who holds the rights to excavate and preserve his artefacts. A new exhibition at the Israel Museum which, for the first time, displays the king’s relics, might serve as a great tribute to him, but is also a powerful reminder of how the history of the Holy Land and today’s co
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Blind Ambition
I'm sitting in the beautiful old Radio movie theatre in Downtown Cairo, watching a black and white movie filmed on a cell phone. On screen, people (all so familiar I feel I crossed them once in the street) are complaining, arguing, not listening to each other while charging forward in endless linguistic loops. The dialogues, as one audience member suggest afterwards, are as frusrating as unresolve
The Bassem Youssef case
A lot of ink has been spilled already over the charges that have been filed (by individuals absolutey not formally affiliated with the Freedom and Justice Party) against Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef of insulting the president, and religion, and Pakistan. I was (I think) the first English-language journalist to profile Bassem, back when he was filming his show in a room of his appartment (and I
Islam, politics and academia
Sitting on a curb outside the college where she was recently expelled, Eman is defiant. "I did it for the sake of God," the 21-year-old Tunisian history student—who asked to be identified only by her first name—said of her insistence on wearing the niqab, the full-face veil. Such a display of piety is banned in the classrooms of the University of Manouba's Faculty of Arts and Letter
Podcast #42: An opposition strategy
Our latest podcast went up yesterday after a too-long absence. Ursula, Ashraf and I talked about the Dubai art scene and censorship in the Gulf, the UAE and Qatar's soft power, how Islamist governments are doing in Tunisia and Egypt, and then we zero in for a long discussion of the Egyptian opposition's strategy, or absence thereof, and what might need to be changed. Remember you can always get th
The Zaatari refugee camp
Links 17-28 March 2013
Women's safety and participation
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Europa: Sulfates and Landing Sites
Last week’s post about the chemistry of Europa’s ocean is nicely complemented by new work on the moon’s interior by Brad Dalton (JPL) and colleagues. Like JPL’s Kevin Hand, who has been looking at the role of hydrogen peroxide in possible subsurface life there, Dalton is in the hunt for ways to learn more about the composition of Europa’s ocean. Both scientists have been using data from the Galile
The Era of Planet Gathering
We’ve looked at a couple of exoplanet issues this week that bear further comment. The first is that different detection methods can be usefully combined to cover different scenarios. If radial velocity works best with larger planets closer to their star, direct imaging takes us deep into the outer planetary system. We saw yesterday how both imaging and radial velocity could be used to probe subgia
Planetary Systems Around Subgiant Stars
Our exoplanet detection methods have their limits. Radial velocity studies work great in the inner regions of planetary systems, but become more challenging as we move away from the star. Direct imaging is the reverse — we’re most likely to see a distant planet if it’s both large and well separated from the primary. Clearly we need to take the best data from each available method to characterize a
The Chemistry of Europa’s Ocean
The news that hydrogen peroxide is found across much of the surface of Europa is intriguing. The global ocean beneath the moon’s icy crust would turn hydrogen peroxide into oxygen, assuming there is some mixing between the surface and the ocean. We don’t know if that mixing occurs, but if it does, then we may be looking at a useful chemical energy source for life. Given that I spent much of last w
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Blood on the Tracks
The 19th-century railroad boom enabled not only the settling of the American West, the industrial revolution and the growth of American cities, but also the creation of a new class of corporate owners. The railroad magnates of the 19th and early 20th centuries amassed such wealth and wielded such political clout that they seemed almost omnipotent. The 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case Santa Clara Cou
Tapping Chavez’s Political Reserves
With Venezuelans preparing to go to the polls in the highly anticipated election to replace the late president Hugo Chávez, both candidates held massive rallies in Caracas on Thursday as campaigning closed. Interim President Nicolás Maduro is expected to win Sunday’s election handily, currently polling at 17 points ahead of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, despite Capriles' charges
A Crash Course in Citizen Budgeting
This is the second installment of “Direct Democracy in Chicago's 5th Ward,” a 5-part series that will follow the participatory voting process in the 5th Ward. This series is supported by a grant from the Local Reporting Initiative of the Chicago Community Trust. Read the first part of the series here. In October 2012, residents of Chicago’s 5th ward began the long process of determining ho
In Gaza, Dignity Is the Battleground
The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward him in ragged clothes. "I noticed something that I will never forget for as long as I live," Mankell says. "I looked at his feet. He had no shoes. Instead he had painted shoes on his feet. He had used the colors in the ground and in t
Drone Justice is Blind
Obama’s Budget: A Bad Bargain
Upstream Color Reinvents Cinema
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MJ, the 123, and the SLA
On the occasion of Chung Mong-joon’s appearance at the 2013 Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington last week, I doubt that Dr. Chung had scheduled audiences with either John Kerry or Yukiya Amano, but it would be a fair guess that both the U.S. Department of State and the IAEA paid very close attention to what MJ had to say on April 9. These bits, which I excerpt from the transcript of h
FYRP: Nuclear Budget Special
Yes, it’s another edition of For Your Reading Pleasure! Center for Public Integrity | R. Jeffrey Smith reports that the Obama administration is shifting funds from nonproliferation to the nuclear weapons complex. More from John Fleck. More from Kingston Reif. More from Stephen Young. YouTube | Excerpt from President Obama’s speech of April 5, 2009. The State | Some aren’t too happy with the propos
For Your (North Korea) Reading Pleasure
Back in 2011, Jeffrey published the first of what should have been many “roundup” posts: posts that would offer an overview of the “arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation universe.” Sadly, Read Behind never became a regular feature, and the experiment faded into this blog’s collective memory. However, with so many arms-control blogs out there, in addition to various news sources, some of t
Crowdsourcing lessons from Tomnod
From Tomnod’s website: Examples of possible military buildings, crowds, landmarks and military vehicles in Damascus detected by Tomnod’s CrowdRank and derived from volunteer imagery insight. * * * DigitalGlobe announced today that it is acquiring Tomnod, a five-guy operation known for its pioneering work in the field of crowdsourced intelligence.  By combining satellite imagery and Tomnod’s o
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INJURY RATES AFGHANISTAN U.S. MILITARY - GOOG...48 unread articles  //  actions

New details emerge in deadly Afghan attack | Politics | The Seattle ...
Ventrell said Kelly Hunt, a public diplomacy officer, was being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Two other injured State Department employees are being treated in Afghanistan, and a fourth was treated and ...
Funding for mental health research yielding results ... - U.S. Army
Research advances in mental health and care provided for Soldiers is light years ahead of what it was during the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the director of Army Medical Command told Congress. ... From 2001 to 2006, funding for research in psychological health, including traumatic brain injury, or TBI, and suicide, totaled just $83 million, she said, thanking Congress for their
Top US military officer visits Afghanistan to discuss Afghan mission ...
Among the key issues for Dempsey is the pacing of U.S. troop withdrawals this year and next, as well as the rate of improvement among Afghan security forces. President Barack Obama has not announced how many ...
The Most Expensive War in World History: Costs of Iraq, Afghanistan ...
Constituting a particularly grim facet of this mental health crisis is the doubling of the suicide rate for US Army personnel, “with many who attempted suicide suffering serious injuries.” Overall, the Veterans Administration's ...
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Rubio Doesn’t Support A Path to Citizenship for Latinos
Rubio offers no path to Immigration Green cards for undocumented Latinos, although his own parents received full benefits as undocumented arrivals from Cuba.
Policeman Fired for Using Trayvon Martin’s Picture For Target Practice
Sgt Ron King, fired from Pt Canaveral Police Dept for presenting photos of Trayvon Martin to be used as target practice to his fellow officers, Trayvon family attny Benjamin Crump responds.
Elizabeth Warren Takes on Federal Reserve for Hiding Information on Illegal Foreclosures
Elizabeth Warren takes on attorneys for Federal Reserve who will not release information on the illegal foreclosures performed by Wall St Banks since 2008 to American homeowners.
New Gun Vote Meets Opposition in Senate by Two Democrats
Two Democrats vote against a vote on new gun laws, Pres. Obama addresses Connecticut crowds, its not about me its about Newtown families.
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Islamic State Declared in Syria
by Matthew Barber   Al-Qaida and Jabhat al-Nusra have each declared an Islamic State in Syria, in their own way. And by the way, Jabhat al-Nusra is al-Qaida. The head of al-Nusra, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, finally confirmed the obvious through an official declaration of allegiance.   An Islamic State in Syria? For Real? Al-Qaida in Iraq already styles itself as the “Islamic State in Iraq” (ISI).
Syria Video – a powerful web service that maps Syrian war video by town and province
Syria Video Syria Comment Announces a new web service: Syria Video, which can be found at http://syriavideo.net Syria Video is a web application that maps and aggregates Syrian war videos by tracking a large number of YouTube channels. The channels have been identified as reliable and tied to specific towns or regions of Syria. Syria Video collects all new videos released on these channels and at
Jabhat al-Nusra Shaikh Promises to Decapitate Every Oppressive Arab Leader
This Jabhat al-Nusra shaikh gives a speech, while standing above the decapitated body of a Syrian officer. The slain officer commanded the 38th brigade, which was stationed at Saida very close to Deraa near the Jordanian border. Al-Nusra defeated the brigade a week ago. Here is the translation of the Shaikh’s triumphant speech warning all presidents, kings, amirs, security officials and military
Dera’a is Falling
Dera’a is Falling by Matthew Barber for Syria Comment March 29, 2013 According to an article published yesterday by al-Quds (نائب سوري: مقاتلو المعارضة يسيطرون على اجزاء واسعة من درعا), Syrian MP Waleed Zoubi has asserted during a session of parliament that large areas within the muhafiza (governorate) of Dera’a have fallen under the control of rebels, and that the presence of regime forces is dw
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President Obama's Green Warriors Verse the American People
by Kevin C. Caffrey:    President Obama's nominee for the EPA Gina McCarthy is discussed in relation to new regulations and higher costs for the American people
Conservative Fool's Gold
by Joel S. Hirschhorn:    Take a critical look at using gold as an investment. Right-wing talk radio shows push gold commercials as another way to address fear.
North Korea needs a Taste of America's "Doctrine of Preemption"
by Kevin C. Caffrey:    After the breakdown in talks with the Iranians in Kazakhstan and the problems with North Korea America needs to change its foreign policy.
Hillary's village has no morals...
by Mark Vogl:    Morals aren't fashions. They come from God, and it seems the American Villarge of Hillary Clinton has burned that book.
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The Crisis of Zionism, Conservatism
By @TedFrier Before there was Governor Rick Scott's defiance of the US Justice Department's order to stop purging Hispanics and other dark-skinned Democrats from the Florida voter rolls, there was Avigdor Lieberman, foreign minister in Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu's ruling Likud coalition, who proposed that his country revoke the citizenship of all Israeli Arabs who did not swear loyalty to the "
Dear Congress: You Are NOT America's "Nobility"
By @TomBales1 Ladies & Gentlemen: As one of your employers it has come to my attention that there are certain things going on during the course of your employment with our organization that need to be straightened out before they've gone too far to reverse, which I fear may already be the case in some of them. Perhaps the first thing you all need is a stern reminder of who you work for.  We se
The Familiar Voice of Reaction
By @TedFrier Rabbi Steven Pruzansky blames it all on President Obama's reelection last November. But the rabbi's reactionary requiem on the loss of what he calls the "traditional (and conservative) American virtues" of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness, would be a lot more believable had nearly a decade of undisputed Republican misrule not p
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