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The new Confederacy, much like the old. Frank at Pine View Farm points to an honest but devastating analysis of the problem of WhiteManistan. Excerpted from Racial Divide: The Tragedy of America’s first black President, from Der Spiegel: The American problem has many different facets, but it is accurate to say that it is mostly […]
In twenty years of writing about computer and national security issues, I’ve never anyone from the top of the US military quite as grasping as former NSA director, Keith Alexander. He’s redefined retiring from service at a whole new level. And I know of no military men, or directors of any intelligence agency, to claim […]
You just can’t call people unclean vermin. It’s a lesson Ted Nugent learned the hard way yesterday. Yes, the wheels must have popped off the Ted Nugent tour bus last night when news arrived that another Indian tribe, the Puyallup, canceled the two shows he had at their casino in Tacoma at the beginning of […]
Bigger. Nothing could be more American than McDonald’s and wage theft. It’s tradition, supplanting apple pie. Hard to choose this week. Missouri was in the running for a brief period. So was Uncle Sam. But since they’ve held off until next week the remote-control bombing of paupers in Syria, he may get another shot.
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Embiggen, as they say. Lawmakers and privacy advocates called Friday for reforms and greater transparency in operations of the National Security Agency in response to reports that the highly secretive agency repeatedly violated privacy rules over the years. The reaction came after The Washington Post reported the violations in Friday’s editions, citing an internal audit […]
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From Charles Blow at the New York Times: Today’s America — at least as measured by the actions and inactions of the pariahs who roam its halls of power and the people who put them there — is insular, cruel and uncaring. In this America, people blame welfare for creating poverty rather than for mitigating […]
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PARIAH: “To afflict everyone else.” North Carolina’s voter suppression bill got final approval in the Senate by a vote of 33 to 14 late Thursday afternoon. The House Bill 589 aka vote suppression bill was passed in the rules committee on Monday and got the Senate’s blessing for the third time this afternoon. Comparatively speaking […]
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PARIAH: “Your Scream of Rage in an Unfree Land!” Police chief Mark Kessler puts the sleepy patch of Gilberton, Pennsylvania, on the map! The birthplace of a new nation!
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North Carolina GOP heevahavas haved passed law essentially declaring global warming isn’t happening because they say so. What else could we get them to pass because science needs debunking? How ’bout bringing back the flatness of the world? Did you know it’s a scientific conspiracy to deny the Earth is the center of solar system […]
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I’m on Facebook, where I have a few friends. Think low forties. They’re almost all from my tribe, the people who will be voting Democratic in November. Except now we disagree on doing your duty for civilization and the necessity of winning the war of good vs. evil at all costs. Whereas no one is […]
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