Month: November 2009

Finally Learning from 9/11

My first indication that our country was not responding well to the 9/11 attacks came when Bill Maher was fired from ABC for questioning whether ‘cowards’ was an apt description for people who willingly fly jet...

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US only Holdout on UN Child Rights Treaty

. US only holdout on UN child rights treaty after Somalia announces intent to ratify [JURIST] The Somali Transitional Federal Government announced its intention to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which,...

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Things That Don’t Happen in America…

…because we never do anything wrong: Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony...

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Sad Announcement

I have some sad news to report. Longtime Frog Ponder, billjpa, died unexpectedly on Thursday. His daughter dropped me an email to let me know and to tell me how much Bill had enjoyed the site. I always enjoyed Bill’s...

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Casual Observation

I don’t know, maybe if you represent a state from the Old Confederacy you shouldn’t repeatedly refer to Medicaid as a medical ghetto. It just sounds a bit racist. Don’t you think?

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