Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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Americans Say Reagan Is the Greatest U.S. President
From Gallup: Ahead of Presidents Day 2011, Americans are most likely to say Ronald Reagan was the nation’s greatest president — slightly ahead of Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton. Reagan, Lincoln, or John F. Kennedy has been at the top of this “greatest president” list each time this question has been asked in eight surveys […]
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Chris Hedges: It's the Educated vs the Idiots
Chris Heges on Alternet: The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. […]
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Obama Administration Refuses to Cooperate with Poland CIA Secret Prison Inquiry
DoJ won’t help: U.S. government has refused assistance to Polish prosecutors investigating whether the CIA maintained a secret prison in Poland. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights posted a letter from prosecutors on its website saying the U.S. Justice Department in October refused to provide legal assistance requested by Polish investigators by citing a bilateral agreement […]
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Glenn Greenwald vs Fran Townsend on Wikileaks
YouTube – GLENN GREENWALD vs FRAN TOWNSEND WIKILEAKS DEBATE.
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CA Gov Candidate Promises to Create Pedophile Island
Trying to think of a joke involving a smoke monster: As governor I will introduce legislation to impose mandatory expulsion of convicted pedophiles from the State of California as a condition of release from prison. Pedophiles in the State of California will have three (3) choices: 1. Leave our State of California permanently; 2. Live […]
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Alabama Geometry Teachers Uses Assassinating Obama to Teach Parallel Lines
Well, now you’re just being obtuse: “As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation.” A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. … No federal charges followed the probe. The teacher was […]
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Saudi Woman Beats Up 'Virtue' Cop
Glimmers: A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix. For unknown reasons, the young […]
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How Karl Rove Will Win Again
He’s ready for another close-up. The Rove brand was tarnished in 2006, when Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate. His exit from the White House the following year was dogged by scandals, from the political firing of U.S. attorneys to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. And with his longtime enemy […]
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Cynthia Dunbar Wants Your Kids to Be Stupid
More textbook revision from the assholes in Texas: Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a […]
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Maine GOP Forced To Apologize After Convention-Goers Vandalize An Eighth-Grade Classroom
So friggging stupid: For seven years, Clifford has had “a collage-type poster depicting the history of the U.S. labor movement” on his classroom door. He uses it “to teach his students how to incorporate collages into their annual project on Norman Rockwell’s historic ‘Four Freedoms’ illustrations.” When Clifford returned to his classroom on Monday, after […]