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Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Tuesday’s Roundup of Good News! Friends, I’m filling in for arhpdx today, but I won’t be here on Friday because I will be traveling. During the last Friday White House Deadline show, Nicolle Wallace made an observation:...
by chloris creator
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on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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During a drive recently I saw one of the still pervasive MIA-POW flags, a field of black with a white logo. Now, years ago it came out that the Pentagon was responsible for the design and initial production of those. And that it was designed as a form...
by Aequaliter
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 07:56 AM PDT
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I’m proud to be an American. Many people are also proud to be one. Being proud of one’s Americaness is something shared with many ethnic minorities in this country. According to that survey group More In Common 62 percent of Asians, 70 percent of...
by Somchai
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 06:11 AM PDT
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No veteran wants to realize that their command lied to get them to commit war crimes. In the film The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise plays a Civil War veteran haunted by his part in the Washita Battle. In my view, honoring veterans begins by honoring the...
by CorpFlunky
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 08:17 AM PST
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Some twenty years ago, I supervised a Doctor of Ministry thesis on the subject of the presence of the American flag in the church sanctuary where the student served as pastor. When he presented this ...
by DRSat4880
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on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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We Americans are expected to just say the Pledge of Allegiance. We’re not supposed to question what any portion of it means, and it doesn’t seem to matter that most first-graders don’t even understand the words they’re saying. (Ask any normal...
by Perlinator
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on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 03:01 AM PDT
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“I pledge allegiance...” You know how it goes. So many children repeat those words not knowing what “pledge” means or what a leejunce even is. It’s just something you’re supposed to say about witches’ hands and liver tea. It means you’re patriotic....
by Girasol
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on Mon Jul 25, 2022 at 09:45 AM PDT
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As we celebrate Juneteenth this Sunday, June 19, with the official holiday observed on Monday, we not only honor the day when the last enslaved Black Americans were granted their freedom in 1865, but we also celebrate the symbol of the holiday with the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 08:00 AM PDT
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We collectively and individually have one job to do leading into the ‘22 and ‘24 elections. Sit in the patriot space. Wrap ourselves in the flag and stand proud. It doesn’t come easy to some of us. We know the republic is not perfect and that...
by Colin the Librarian
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on Tue Feb 01, 2022 at 12:24 PM PST
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How many of you agreed with the man in the necktie before you got to the last panel?
by Perlinator
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on Mon Jan 10, 2022 at 01:23 PM PST
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We keep hearing Republicans talk about how much they love the flag and how liberals disrespect the flag. Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem? Why, that’s positively disrespectful. Flag like this, disintegrating on the flagpole, why that’s...
by A Citizen
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on Thu Dec 16, 2021 at 11:03 AM PST
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Some like to remember September 11th, 2001 and the period that followed it as a time when we all came together as Americans, united against the forces of evil. I’m sorry, but my memories are not as rosy. Here is how I remember how Americans responded...
by Perlinator
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on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 01:49 AM PDT
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September 11, 2001 was a beautiful day, and I was running late. I tend to do that on beautiful days, when there are things I’d rather do than work. As I stopped at the coffee shop for breakfast I heard something about a plane hitting the World Trade...
by LadyJeand
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on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 11:01 AM PDT
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Conservatives can only succeed by dividing Americans along racial lines. It’s been their go-to strategy for decades , long before Trump. It was one of Rush Limbaugh’...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Thu Aug 19, 2021 at 08:29 AM PDT
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Life has changed for most everyone amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but students have faced unique and sudden shifts. For high schoolers who are graduating into a world that is in some ways both new and transitional, the experience can feel...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 09:18 AM PDT
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Want to know what the world is going to look like in two decades? We can get a pretty solid prediction by reading Global Trends 2040 (GT 2040), published last month by the National Intelligence ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat May 01, 2021 at 12:59 PM PDT
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• 2001: They zealously supported a bill that violates the Bill of Rights and they called it the “Patriot Act”. • 2009: They pretended to be outraged when then-President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan. • 2014: They also pretended to be outraged...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 08:17 AM PST
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Ever since the 1960s and Mcarthyism the Democratic party has had to labor under the burden of performative patriotism. After being accused of being filthy communists, sympathizers, hippies, traitors, and of course, "providing aid and comfort" to...
by A Bleeding God
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on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 02:24 AM PST
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In light of the events of yesterday, I thought it worthwhile to provide a 60-second video primer, a reminder about the importance of respecting the flag. No word yet about Trump’s reaction to the flag usage of the his “special” people during the riot.
by berglandjournalist
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on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 03:44 PM PST
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I live a solidly blue neighborhood in the SF Bay Area. There was only one house that had a “Trump 2020 , No more Bullshit” flag waving proudly 24 / 7. I walked by there today and the flag was gone. I know it could have been stolen or taken...
by Cobalt Thorium G
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on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 04:36 PM PST
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