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Back a dozen years ago after the initial reports and photos of Abu Ghraib appeared and proved torture had been used on suspected terrorists, foes of the practice—which you would think would include everyone, but obviously doesn’t—made three basic...
by Meteor Blades
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The Bundy Ranch has reported another son of Cliven Bundy has been arrested by the FBI:
Dave Bundy at the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014
by Jen Hayden
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Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses were but one more battlefield on which Trumpmania easily vanquished its foes. Donald Trump, the American Il Duce and Mad Max’s Immortan Joe come to life in the form of a real
by Chauncey DeVega
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(Author’s Note — Meteor Blades took notice of this humble diary and scolded my amount of blockquoting….soooooo I shall attempt to paraphrase Taibbi’s genius article and randomly blockquote elsewhere,
by Chaoslillith
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It’s almost gotten to the point where I dread Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday. The antiseptic whitewashing of his words and legacy have essentially been completed in the almost 50 yea
by Vann R Newkirk II
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Historically speaking, politicians who have attacked Social Security (oft-described as the "Third Rail" in American politics) have not fared well with the American people. The program, originally ...
by Dartagnan
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Screenshot from MTV's documentary, "White People"
In the wake of a lot of heated ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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It all started with a Constitution that allowed slavery to continue unmolested in the Southern states, only limiting the importation of additional slaves after 1808. In addition to requiring the ...
by Susan Grigsby
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We are beginning to see more and more states and officials begin to come to their senses on openly displaying the Traitor Flag on public property. You start thinking that people like Dylann Roof, ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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The real heroes of the Civil War
I grew up in Kentucky barely 30 miles from the Jefferson Davis Monument. I've strolled the cemeteries ...
by Mark Sumner
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