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    Threats Are Now a Daily Event for Many U.S. Muslims

    By Rob Garver September 25, 2014 These are difficult days to be a Muslim in the United States. There was, for example, the drunk man who chased Linda Sarsour and her friend down a New York City street earlier this month calling the two women “f---ing Arabs” and threatening to “chop off your...
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    Congressional Leadership

    Congress in No Rush to Return for ISIS War Authorization By Matt Fuller Posted at 4:08 p.m. on Sept. 23 The United States has begun a bombing campaign in Syria, but don’t bet on Congress returning to Washington to vote on a new war authorization anytime soon. Shortly after airstrikes against...
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    ISIS Sounds Just Like Fundie Christians

    http://news.yahoo.com/turks-leave-family-friendly-islamic-state-093355770.html
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    "To Declare War"

    That's in the Constitution, under Article I, Section 8, which starts "The Congress shall have Power. . ." This is relevant to the current campaign against DOUCHE. I maintain that while the President may, on his own authority, respond to imminent threats against the United States, only...
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    War!

    U.S. to send 3,000 troops to battle Ebola By Lena H. Sun and Juliet Eilperin September 16 President Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. military will take the lead in overseeing what has been a chaotic and widely criticized response to the worst Ebola outbreak in history, dispatching...
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    Land of the Free

    Cops seize cash from motorists without charges. Stop and seize | The Washington Post
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    The Old Dominion Looking Skanky

    Ex-Va. governor Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of corruption By Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky September 4 RICHMOND — A federal jury on Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending an emphatic message...
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    The End of Unions?

    Samuelson writes a thoughtful op-ed on how fast-food workers are winning wage increases through state and local governments, not through unionising: How to get a raise at McDonald’s - The Washington Post The day of the American union may be coming to a close, for two reasons. First, unions...
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    This Is How It's Done

    How municipalities in St. Louis County, Missouri profit from poverty - The Washington Post
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    Why the Economy Ain't Working

    In corporations, it’s owner-take-all - The Washington Post Kinda scary, but since most of my income comes from investments, I'm cool with it.
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    Eric Garner

    Staten Island Residents Brace For Eric Garner Protest March Saturday NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Staten Island residents are bracing for what they expect to be a crowd in the thousands Saturday for Rev. Al Sharpton’s march to protest the police custody death of Eric Garner. The “We Will Not Go...
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    Evolution in Action

    Ice bucket challenge goes awry, firefighters hurt By Associated Press August 22 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — A charity stunt that has grown into a social media phenomenon went terribly wrong for four Kentucky firefighters when a fire truck’s ladder got too close to a power line after they dumped...
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    Other People's Money

    In the news: But in the coming weeks, NASA is expected to announce its long-awaited solution: a multibillion-dollar contract to build a U.S. spacecraft, which could help reignite a struggling American space program. Instead of paying the Russians more than $70 million a seat to ride their...
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    Cops and Thugs

    Here's Officer Sunil Dutta's Stasi screed in a nutshell. It could be straight out of the mouth of a Stasi agent: And here's the whole essay: I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me. - The Washington Post And here is the Atlantic's brilliant response...
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    Don't See How This Could Possibly End Badly

    In Compton, school police can use semiautomatic weapons By Justin Moyer August 21 It’s a place that’s been associated with gunfire at least since the release of N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988: Compton, Calif., a city of 100,000 south of downtown Los Angeles, and a site of 1992...
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    The Worst. . . Possible. . . Thing!

    Democrats on Hobby Lobby: ‘Misspeaks,’ ‘opinion’ and overheated rhetoric “Really, we should be afraid of this court. The five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal. Let’s not even go there.” — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), at her weekly news conference, on...
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    The Nanny State

    Here's another example of the Nanny State violating the civil and property rights of private enterprise. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Inspectors showed up at a hospice agency here in March 2012, and then issued what amounted to a 161-page catalogue of end-of-life neglect. A woman dying of liver cancer...
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    England defeats Italy, 1-2

    In World Cup action today, mighty England scored another thrilling victory, defeating Italy 1-2 on their way to an inevitable seventeenth World Cup championship. England scored three seconds into the match, then followed up with one goal per minute until minute 33, when it was discovered that...