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Review: Six Things Expelled Critics Don't Want You to Know [Digg]
2008-04-21 13:50:00
After just leaving the theatres to review Expelled : No Intelligence Allowed I carried with me a sense of relief. The fearful expectation going into the film was that it might hold gaping flaws and little perspective from the opposing viewpoint. Despite what critics are saying, however, some of the biggest names in the film were Darwinists...
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Clintons Sort Friends: Past and Present [Digg]
2008-04-20 07:00:00
The decisions by some Democrats to turn away have been wrenching for the Clintons, some of their close friends say.
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Ex-Labor Secretary Reich backs Obama - Los Angeles Times [Digg]
2008-04-19 17:06:00
He becomes the fifth former Clinton Cabinet member to endorse Sen. Barack Obama rather than Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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The discovery of a new element - Governmentium [Digg]
2008-04-19 16:40:00
Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312 ...
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The Default
2008-04-19 07:15:00
Simply put, those who are outraged about ABC's Democratic debate are upset because the MSM's usual default setting (i.e., treating Obama as a child would treat a pet rabbit) was rejected by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos.

The Default
2008-04-19 07:10:00
The first order of business is to apologize for my extended absence from this page. As some of you may have gathered from a previous post, I have been otherwise occupied as of late. To be completely frank, it is as if I am being held captive in a PON (Prisoner of Newborn) camp, the disturbed sleep and constant wailing during the nights serving to enhance the effect.As befits time spent away from an assortment of once-important matters that are now reduced to trivialities, I have delighted in a respite from following the presidential campaigns. I enjoyed my reprieve until - wholly accidentally, as I was flipping channels between feedings and diaper changes - I stumbled across the most recent ABC News debate between the Romulus and Remus of Democratic politics. (This is a fitting enough description, as both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are starting to look as if they have fed from the teat of a she-wolf.)The crux of the various debate critiques seemed to be that, as the Ne...

Asia expert resigns as Clinton adviser [Digg]
2008-04-19 03:05:00
Politico - "As a lifelong Democrat, it saddens me that Senator Clinton has chosen to take the low road in her effort to gain our party’s presidential nomination,” Baum said in an e-mail to Politico.
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Robert Reich and Senators Nunn and Boren endorse Obama
2008-04-18 23:24:00
Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich on Friday endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Even Hillary's Ex-Boyfriend Endorses Obama [Digg]
2008-04-18 21:30:00
Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's former labor secretary and Hillary Clinton's college beau, endorsed Barack Obama for president -- as did two former senators.
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Obama overtakes Clinton in electability battle [Digg]
2008-04-18 14:02:00
In a dramatic reversal, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll found that a clear majority of Democratic voters now say Sen. Barack Obama has a better chance of defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in November than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton .
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Analyzing: Christian Bill O'Reilly vs Atheist Richard Dawkin [Digg]
2008-04-18 13:55:00
If individuals have not had a chance to view the short debate between Atheist Richard Dawkins and Christian Bill O 'Reilly between belief or simple dis-belief they can view it here. There are some interesting conclusions one can draw from the short discussion these two individuals had.
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Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich to endorse Obama
2008-04-18 09:22:00
If the Democratic presidential race were a poker game, by now you'd have to suspect that Barack Obama 's campaign is dealing from the bottom of the deck: Rarely a day goes by when it doesn't slap another ace down on the table.
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Bush and Brown Share Impatience on Iran [Digg]
2008-04-17 23:18:00
President Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain expressed mounting impatience Thursday with Iran for proceeding with its nuclear enrichment work.
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Grim News for Obama [Digg]
2008-04-17 01:07:00
Obama's poll numbers look like they're starting to suffer from his "bitter-gate" gaffe on Friday, in which he had this to say about people in small towns that have lost jobs...
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Divorce, Unwed Parents Cost Taxpayers $112 Billion A Year [Digg]
2008-04-15 15:36:00
Sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said it is the first to gauge the broad costs of "family fragmentation" resulting from divorce and unwed childbearing. Given that cost, proponents say the modest price tags associated with most marriage-strengthening initiatives programs even with very modest success rates will be cost-effective.
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Will "Good Men" Find Favor With God? [Digg]
2008-04-15 14:16:00
An often discussed issue is whether or not men who perform great thing or do great things in this world will find favor with God when they pass into the next life. It is a fearful and scary notion to believe those we perceive as being 'good men' will not find favor with God when they stand before him.
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How Deep Is the Obama/Clinton Division? [Digg]
2008-04-15 04:27:00
FTA: "A good half of the Democratic party is saying to the other half that their vote doesn't matter, not at all. And that "half" seems to consist of people that might not have ever voted except for Barack Obama - in other words, it isn't clear that these are going to be lifelong Democrats that are committed to the party's values."
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Obama as New Age Patrician: Why He Just Doesn't Get It [Digg]
2008-04-14 21:06:00
The Obama camp has spent the better part of the weekend trying to quell the firestorm created by his haughty and condescending comments about why plebeians in small town America, in their “bitterness” over the souring economy, cling to such red-neck activities as owning guns and fulminating about illegal immigration.
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The Mask Slips [Digg]
2008-04-14 20:29:00
"I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s. ... My occasion for spending a little time once again with the old Communist was Barack Obama’s now-famous comment at an April 6 San Francisco fund-raiser..."
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War for oil? No. Oil for war? Yes. [Digg]
2008-04-14 17:43:00
The month that President Bush was sworn into office, gas was averaging $1.70 a gallon. Now, after eight years of war in Iraq, gas is $3.60 a gallon. That is two dollars more to pay—because of the war on terror.
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States Most Likely To Switch In The Presidential Election [Digg]
2008-04-13 17:28:00
Which states are the most likely to go from Bush winning in 2004 to Obama winning in 2008, or Kerry winning in 2004 and McCain in 2008? This is in the scenario of an Obama/McCain race, based on 2004 results, polls, and trends:5. Wisconsin...4. New Hampshire...3. Nevada...2. Iowa...
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Too funny not to share
2008-04-08 23:39:00
H/T: Hilldabeasthttp://mattersofmannerandtype. blogspot.com
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$109 million the Easy Way
2008-04-08 06:17:00
Much has been made of the release of the Clinton's tax returns on earnings since they left the White House. To be sure, the timing was absolutely - er, Clintonian, given that the release occurred last Friday afternoon; a cynic would be forgiven for concluding that an attempt was made to get the story into the weekend news cycle, such that it would be old news by today.According to CNN, the Clinton's reported joint income of over $109 million between 2000 and 2007, with $33.7 million paid in federal taxes and $10.2 million in charitable donations (nearly $6 million of which went to the Clinton Family Foundation.)Curiously, as noted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "most of the [foundation's] disbursements came only after Mrs. Clinton announced her Presidential run," which might lead some to suspect that the foundation's purpose was to facilitate "strategic giving." That the foundation was not listed on Ms. Clinton's Senate Financial Disclosure forms on five occassions (although ...
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When Girls Will Be Boys [Digg]
2008-03-15 22:40:00
At the nation’s elite women’s colleges, there is a new kind of gender trouble: students who enter as one sex and become another.
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Racial Issue Bubbles Up Again for Democrats [Digg]
2008-03-13 14:27:00
A comment by Geraldine A. Ferraro, a close ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, has put race at the forefront of the campaign again.
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Kerry's Past Catches Up to Him [Digg]
2008-03-13 11:00:00
The air will be a bit more putrid in DC today. Winter Soldier II, kicks off, bringing another round of smears to the ears of gullible liberals, who claim to support the troops, while undermining their mission. THIS time it will be a lot easier to expose their lies. It should be fun.
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Muslim states are worrying about World Security..how funny!! [Digg]
2008-03-13 10:21:00
The world's Muslim countries warned Wednesday that an "alarming" rise in anti-Islamic insults and attacks in the West has become a threat to international security.
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Arab Journalist: 'I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism' [Digg]
2008-03-13 07:05:00
A fascinating interview with an Arab journalist who infiltrated an Al Qaeda cell in France: Mohamed Sifaoui: ‘I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism ’.
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Ferraro Defends Racist Remark - Hillary Won't Repudiate Her [Digg]
2008-03-13 04:08:00
Former VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who is stepping down from Hillary Clinton’s finance team after telling a California newspaper that Barack Obama has been aided politically by his race, defiantly said Wednesday evening that the remarks were nothing more than a “statement of fact..they [Obama] made this a divisive racial issue, not me."
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Islamic Jihad chief in Bethlehem killed in gun battle [Digg]
2008-03-12 20:02:00
Palestinian claims that the fugitives were responsible for planning last week's attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, in which gunman Ala Abu Dhaim killed eight students, were flatly denied by Israeli security officials, who added that the troops had not planned to kill the fugitives
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