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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Oh, spare us your hyperbola. It's a sine that you're off on a tangent.
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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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    So you still take "climate scientists" seriously?

    Ignorant child. Captain Planet Intro - YouTube
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    The mental midgetry of being green

    Seems like just arugula guy.
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    In superhero gender bend, Marvel unveils Thor as a woman

    What's it like to feel threatened by. . . let's see. . . Muslims Catholics Women Non-whites Labour and the rest of the world?
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    In superhero gender bend, Marvel unveils Thor as a woman

    There aren't many places Real Americans can satisfy their repressed homoerotic longings, and with football season still two months off. . .
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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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    Advert During the NBA Championships

    Proud To Be - YouTube
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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...
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    Canada bans government meteorologists from talking about climate change

    Who takes the King's shilling does the King's bidding.
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    #YesAllWomen

    Worth a read. Might even change some minds. A few, anyhow. https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesAllWomen?src=hash
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    The Hard Sell on Climate Change

    Sounds like porno.