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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Well, surprise, surprise. Reuters reports today on the Small Arms Survey by Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, which found that some of the worlds most violent hot-spots have the lowest per-capita ownership of firearms. At the bottom of the list are nations like Nigeria (1 per 100 ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Never has the stiff upper lip and gracious formalism of British nobility been more welcome than it was this morning when I read Lord Viscount Monckton of Brenchly's open challenge to former Vice President Albert Gore to a televised debate on the subject of Global Warming™.
Although Monckton's tone was gentlemanly ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
The first thing to go were those little paper umbrellas that you put in Mai-Tai's. There just wasn't enough room on their sled, what with the beach gear and suntan lotion.
But they never got to don wetsuits and swim through tepid seas choked with polar bear carcasses. ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Clinton called the kettle black on Thursday, claiming the Republican party has been "jammed into an ideological corner" by a sliver of the Republican Party; namely "its more right-wing and its most ideological element."
Skuze me? Which party handed Howard "Yaarrrr" Dean the party chairmanship after his leftist tantrum meltdown ...
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
The Canadian Press reports: "Iran's top leaders vow to continue nuclear program despite NKorea backlash."
In a nearly subsequent response, and in the wake of North Korea's "successful" nuclear bomb test, a clearly shaken Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran said, "Our policy is clear: Progress, offering transparent logic ...
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
"One dude, sitting in his apartment, marshalls the vangard of the militant right, and pretty much controls all media in the world," said ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin. "And if he puts up that little blue and red siren? Forgeddaboudit. In today's media, Drudge is like ...
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Mel Gibson, commenting at an early screening of his upcoming movie Apocalypto, drew a comparison between the morally horrific decline of the Mayans and present day American culture. "What's human sacrifice," he asked, "if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"
As a writer/director who has tackled the ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
I am just flabbergasted at the childish melodrama coming from prominent middle-eastern Muslim voices over this Benedict thing. for example, Ahmad Khatami, a prominent cleric in the city of Qom told his students:
[The] Pope should fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to ...
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Hey, father, what's the good word?
Pope Benedict XVI showed his stripes today in comments which stung and grievously wounded the hearts and souls of Muslims worldwide to the point that, with great reluctance, they whipped out their prepared effigies of the Pope and burned them.
Salih Kapusuz, a deputy leader of ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, king of angst rock, is suitably conflicted about the environment and his own role in destroying it. It turns out you can't be a superstar without a most triumphant concert tour. And any most triumphant concert tour burns tons of fossil fuels. And the ...
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