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December 29, 2009 10:18 AM EST --
Anybody who thinks the new directives issued by the Transportation Security Administration are going to protect them from terrorists needs to read this article from The Atlantic , published back . . .
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December 03, 2009 05:17 PM EST --
I have no plan to republish every Jesus and Mo strip the second it's out, but the latest one is just too awesome. I gotta share it. With all the nonsense going on with the Manhattan Declaration, I thought . . .
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November 27, 2009 08:44 AM EST --
For the last few months, I've been meaning to share this awesome webcomic, but kept forgetting. Now I've added it to my feedreader so that I don't miss it when a new strip is out, and I'm going to upload . . .
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August 20, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
The new Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013 has just been released. Every year, it considers the changes that have taken place during the lifetimes of the most recent group of students entering . . .
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August 20, 2009 08:15 PM EDT --
The new Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013 has just been released. Every year, it considers the changes that have taken place during the lifetimes of the most recent group of students entering . . .
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August 17, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
Well, not really. But I wouldn't be surprised if they say that some time in the next week or two.
After hinting that she'd very much like to see "Chioumi Fukino and Obama and all their Nazi Brown Shirts . . .
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August 11, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Normally I don't copy entire articles or blog posts, but I'm making an exception in this case, for two reasons. First, because I think it would be a shame to leave anything out, and second, because I . . .
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August 08, 2009 11:56 PM EDT --
One of the accusations Birthers have levelled at President Obama is that he took a trip to Indonesia in 1981 using an Indonesian passport. They have absolutely no evidence of the existence of this Indonesian . . .
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August 04, 2009 10:50 PM EDT --
A fellow Gatherer has recently claimed that "...it so happens that although some of their [the Ku Klux Klan] attitudes might sound a bit racist, they are actually being protective of all Americans, including . . .
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July 12, 2009 09:12 PM EDT --
Bill Moyers did a great interview with Wendell Potter, who was until he resigned the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, discussing the insurance industry's strategy for fighting publically-funded . . .
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July 09, 2009 10:38 PM EDT --
I don't know if it's true or not, but one of our fellow Gatherers has claimed that "because 20% of all Americans and 60% of all Republicans love her [Sarah Palin] dearly." If that's true, I wonder if . . .
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June 02, 2009 09:15 AM EDT --
I'm pro-choice, but I'm not what I would consider an activist. I've never been to a rally or worn a ribbon or anything. It's not a deal-breaker for me when I consider who I'm voting for, or who my friends . . .
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May 02, 2009 09:06 PM EDT --
Government support for the poor isn't a new concept. In the eighth century, the Abbasid Caliphate collected taxes for the purpose of providing for the poor and the needy. The English Poor Law Act . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:45 PM EDT --
So why are some Christians complaining so much about President Obama and/or Congress or "the government" in general?
I'm not a Christian myself, so maybe I don't get it, but The . . .
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March 31, 2009 03:57 AM EDT --
Except, you know, when people make excuses for it.
In another article, also entitled There's No Excuse for Abuse! , the author expresses her anger over a news story that she claims reported . . .
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March 22, 2009 10:56 PM EDT --
As part of a discussion here at Gather about how today's immigrants are different from those in the past, one of the things mentioned repeatedly was the unspeakable horror of including foreign-language . . .
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January 20, 2009 03:05 AM EST --
I just found out that a guy I'd never heard of before, Bruce Allen, is on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee. Well, actually he's on the ceremony planning committee, but in any case, there are . . .
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December 14, 2008 06:04 AM EST --
The BBC has a story ( link ) about the BYD F3DM, a plug-in hybrid that would totally eliminate my need to buy gasoline/petrol except for occasional out-of-town trips. It does this by running on electricity . . .
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November 10, 2008 08:01 PM EST --
Bill Ayers has an article at InTheTimes.com . You might not want to read it if you're thinking you might someday run for public office. You never know when reading an article on a website . . .
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November 05, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
According to a recent article in the New York Times, sales of new cars and trucks have dropped over 30% (45% for GM) in October, hitting its lowest level in 26 years. The national Automobile Dealer's . . .
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