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Stop the Speed Traps!
Posted on May 22, 2012
Congress, especially when Republicans run it, has a way to injecting itself into the internal affairs of the Washington DC government. For those who don’t know, the residents...
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Protest In Chicago
Posted on May 21, 2012
I wonder what Bill Ayers was doing this weekend. I was a little younger than my son (who is 6) in 1968 when the Democratic Convention came to...
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Facebook Follies
Posted on May 18, 2012
Today, the inventors of Facebook finally get rich. According to the New York Times: “The social network priced at the top end of the range it set earlier...
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The Persons Of Color Coalition
Posted on May 17, 2012
When the Irish first emigrated from Ireland to America, they were likened to baboons and other nefarious creatures by nativists from the No-nothing party. Signs on storefronts were fairly...
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Celebrity Trials
Posted on May 16, 2012
Perhaps the first big celebrity trial that I remember was O.J. Simpson’s. Talk about a big deal. It combined the glamour of Hollywood and NFL, it had huge...
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