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Congressman's Dummy Non-profit/Lobby Shop

2009-11-12T10:44:04Z

In 2003 Rep. Stephen Buyer (Rep., Indiana) founded the Frontier Foundation that reportedly existed to attract donor dollars for education scholarships that were never offered to any student. Congressman Buyer also claimed that he doesn't recall wh...

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Fed to the lions

2009-11-12T06:34:40Z

When my grandmother seemed about 100 years old (though in reality she was only a young thing about the age I am now) she would turn to the obituary columns of the morning newspaper first. In the charming way know-it-all teenagers have I would scol...

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Jessica Watson nears Equator...

2009-11-12T05:25:20Z

Jessica Watson's blog was updated recently, and she is closing in on the equator. Since leaving Sydney, Australia on the 18th of October 2009, she has traveled nearly 2500 nautical miles. Her course only approaches the Equator once during her e...

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Threats Made Against Gay Marriage Opponents...

2009-11-11T03:41:33Z

Was reading the Bangor Daily News online a few moments ago and I saw this article about threats being made against Gay Marriage opponents here in Maine. Marc Mutty - the picture to the left - reported to the Police Department in Yarmouth that hi...

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You do have to wonder. Why have a government if you don't want it to govern?

2009-11-08T23:31:18Z

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-why-cant-the-us-learn-to-love-its-government-1816868.html Rupert Cornwell: Why can't the US learn to love its government? Out of America: Suspicion of rulers dates ...

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John Mauldin's Thoughts

2009-11-07T20:56:50Z

Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly NewsletterThe Glide Path Option by John Mauldin November 6, 2009 In this issue: The Present Contains All Possible Futures The Ugly Unemployment Numbers Argentinian Disease The Austrian Solution The East...

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Kucinich Blasts Operation: Cast Doubt

2009-11-06T12:47:41Z

Dennis Kucinich blasted the voting congressional majority that voted for a bill that they did not bother to read. That bill was intended to officially declare that when war crimes are committed, they didn't really happen. The purpose of the bill...

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Sorry, Repubs, it's all bad news. Obama's stimulus is working.

2009-11-06T00:24:45Z

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/productivity-soars-as-us-on-the-mend/story-e6frg926-1225794888461 US productivity soars as jobless benefit claims lowest since January Luca Di Leo From: Dow Jones Newswires November ...

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Are conspiracy theorists always this fun to laugh at?

2009-11-03T22:40:35Z

Recently, a family member of mine became an Alex Jones and 911 Truth devotee. Ok, so it may not have been recently and it may have been building over time but it was only recently that I became aware of just how far from reality he has slipped. ...

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The rise and fall of conservatism.

2009-11-05T04:24:45Z

My neighbour DoctorD recently had a thoughtful post on where conservatism was heading in the U.S. He also linked to the following article on the Becker-Posner blog on the same theme, which I thought said it all very well. May 10, 2009 Is the C...

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