Month: October 2014

The Mike Brown Singers

Maybe you have seen this already, but in case you haven’t last night at a performance of the St. Louis Symphony, black and white people protested by singing as the symphony was about to resume its program after the...

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Don’t just do something, stand there

So Eric Schmitt in the Times informs us that Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is barnstorming the ummah, working to get America’s Muslim youth off the path of terrorism. His aim is to build partnerships...

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Senator Begich Tries to Grow the Electorate

There hasn’t been much polling out of Alaska but sometime around Labor Day, Republican challenger Dan Sullivan took a narrow lead in both the individual polls (excepting one partisan poll) and in the aggregate. It’s...

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New Sweden’s MFA Leaves a Good Impression

Respect to Sweden for ignoring U.S. chastisement for recognizing Palestine. h/t Tikun Olam I do hope the global community will break the US hegemony of support for the apartheid state Israel. In the last year there have been a...

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Lax Security Isn’t Funny

As Jonathan Ladd points out at Mischiefs of Faction, incompetent security by the Secret Service is no joking matter and the consequences for our society if the president were to be harmed are almost unfathomable. I don’t...

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