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Beltway Insiders are beginning to realize that attacking Alan Grayson comes with a price: you get crushed... like a bug. Before Grayson went off to law school and began a career holding war ...
by downwithtyranny
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The recent recommended diaries about rape have brought up a huge upwelling of emotion and memory for me. I believe that the diaries and comments are well-meaning, but some display a level of ...
by johnnygunn
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Legendary comedian and pie personality, Soupy Sales died Thursday night in New York City. When I was a kid, he was one of the most famous comedians around. Reportedly over his career he had 20,000 ...
by Norwegian Chef
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Incredible this didn't get diaried (sorry if I missed it), but in the New York Times yesterday, there was an opinion ...
by sorenScostanza
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I'm not at all surprised the Glenn Beckians are confused and angered over the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's Peace Prize to Barack Obama. The American far right is angry because ...
by EricMaderLin
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With full apologies due to my fellow Democrats in deep red states, I must nevertheless admit that I really love the idea of ...
by thereisnospoon
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“It’s so unfair” is one of the first morally-based complaints that children make, and as adults, unfairness can get our hackles up.
by Dwight Furrow
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The Associated Press has reported that Marek Edelman, the last surving leader of the heroic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 has died in Warsaw at the age of 90.
There are not a lot of survivors left ...
by itzik shpitzik
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As a teenager in the 1960s, I remember hearing the fearful talk of the mass famines which many observers predicted would sweep over the underdeveloped world in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Ehrlich went ...
by Yosef 52
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(From the diaries. Brilliant! -- kos)
Ezra Klein
Joe Wilson’s “you lie” comment might be a great boon to the Democrats in their bid to pass health care.
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by wilbur
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