Month: February 2015

Casual Observation

It’s too bad that former Rep. Ron Paul thinks that the only reason that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are opposed to fighting reckless foreign wars is because they want food stamps, but that’s what he...

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Chicago PD’s Black Site: Homan Square

Unbelievable as it may seem, The Guardian is reporting today that the Chicago Police Department operates its own “Black Site” where people are taken, tortured and held in shackles without notification of family or...

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Reality Detachment Syndrome

In one sense, a prolonged debate about an appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security and the rules of the Senate doesn’t seem very interesting. But the silver lining here is the way that it really shines a...

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Not the Way to Kill a Story

David Corn has burrowed under Bill O’Reilly’s skin like a chigger. At this point, O’Reilly is desperate to make the news coverage of his fake war zone exploits in the Falkland Islands go away. At the end of his...

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Music Thread

I’m totally wiped out. Let”s have some music. Any thing interesting going on I should know about?

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