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Micahel Tomasky accuses Michael Moore of being a fatuous blowhard for criticizing the war in Afghanistan as a kind of imperialism. Now, Moore can be a fatuous blowhard, but Tomasky doesn't make the charge stick this time. In his open letter to President Obama, Moore warns that Afghanistan has ...
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Now that President Obama has committed 30,000 more
troops to Afghanistan, it might be a good time...
to revisit some basic questions about what the hell we're supposedly doing there. i) Isn't it kind of crazy to think that the U.S. can transform the nation of Afghanistan into something we like ...
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I don't know whether White House social secretary Desirée Rogers is to blame for the gate crashers at the White House dinner, nor do I particularly care. This defense by Michael Scherer of TIME makes me want to gag , though: There is an unwritten rule in Washington: If you want to last, ...
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Last week's massacre of at least 57 politicians, journalists, and innocent bystanders in the province of Maguindanao in the southern Philippines has galvanized the country's labor movement to fight government-sanctioned warlords. The Maguindanao massacre is the largest mass killing of ...
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Hondurans went to the polls yesterday in what the pro-coup media cheerfully called the "fiesta electoral." It's a wild party that drew a bad crowd. The United Nations and the Organization of American States refused to send election observers because they saw the contest as hopelessly ...
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Listen up,
Canada Customs: The Vancouver Olympics will be the kindest, bravest,
warmest, most wonderful international sporting event I've ever seen. Is that clear? I don't
want to end up like U.S. journalist Amy Goodman , who was detained at
the Canadian border by guards who were concerned that ...
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The Daily Beast ran an op/ed by retired colonel Ken Allard. Therein, he argues that the Fort Hood massacre shows why the U.S. military should screen Muslim recruits . "We shouldn’t make Muslims into a mysteriously protected class somehow exempt from scrutiny," Allard wrote. Here's what the ...
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Thanksgiving Pies , originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein . "If when you die you get a choice between pie ...
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pecan Pie , originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein . Brooklyn, NY. I mixed and matched this year. The crust ...
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I'm very pleased to announce that 3quarksdaily is sponsoring a prize for political blogging. Eligible posts must be about politics, written in English, and published after Nov 23, 2008. The winner of the Top Quark award will receive a cash prize of $1000 and feedback on the winning entry from ...
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Real Climate debunks allegations by global warming deniers that stolen emails from a closed climate science listerv reveal some kind of conspiracy.
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Obama nominated former Bush press secretary Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors: President Obama has nominated George W. Bush's former press secretary
Dana Perino for a post on the board overseeing government-sponsored
international broadcasting. Perino, who worked in the Bush ...
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CafePress and Zazzle have wisely decided to drop user-designed merchandise bearing the slogan " Pray for Obama: Psalm 108:9 "--perhaps because they've figured out that it's unseemly to do business with people laughing up their sleeve about killing the president under cover of Christian piety.
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Hats off to a blogger in the Netherlands who is cooking his way through Heston Blumenthal's bible of molecular gastronomy, the Fat Duck Cookbook. He's documenting his culinary odyssey at The Big Fat Undertaking . One of the early recipes he tried was grapefruit and crisp candied beets ...
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Eliminationist wags were selling bumper stickers that read "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" on Cafe Press. Psalm 109:8 reads: "Let his days be few. Let another take is his office." The next verse is, "Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow." Followed by , "Let his children wander ...
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Like Jill , I've got misgivings about the provision in the senate healthcare bill that would defray the costs of reform by levying a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. In practice, a plastic surgery tax would be relatively economically progressive. Plastic surgery is, after all, a luxury. But if ...
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My first Newsweek story, on the Stupak Amendment , the senate, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform.
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This story should put the annoying "bad mommy" confessional genre out of its misery. Nothing can top this. Bad mommies have officially jumped the shark: An Arkansas mom allegedly allowed a police office to taze her 10-year-old daughter because the girl was having a tantrum. The girl will face ...
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The IRS finally figured out that the fundamentalist flophouse on C Street owned by the secretive Christian group known as "The Family" is a dorm . Until recently, the C Street home for legislators avoided paying property taxes by claiming to be a church. If I understand correctly, claiming to ...
