How would Moses handle EXODUS, the ten plagues and the flight from Egypt if he had access to the Internet? Check this out. ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 4:45PM
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“THE FIRST INDICATOR THAT YOUR CHILD IS HAVING PROBLEMS IS THE DRESS CODE,” SAID SEN. ADAMS, A FORMER POLCIE CAPTAIN. “PRIOR TO THE SAGGING PANTS IT WAS SHOESTRINGS OUT OF SNEAKERS. ALL THIS COMES FROM PRISON. WE TAKE THE SHOESTRINGS AND BELTS FRO ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 4:29PM
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April 5, 2011 DAYTON, OH - Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, Ohio got the surprise of her life yesterday, when she was asked to leave the plane she had just boarded at the Omaha International Airport.
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Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 10:20AM
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This week marks the anniversary of my father's death. Many Americans observe this occasion by looking back at the ideals he fought for and gave his life to advance. I believe we should mark it by looking forward to how much further we can advance tho ...
Posted Thursday, April 7th 2011 at 10:19AM
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Al-Jazeera's Abderrahim Fochara and Professor Irshad Manji analyze recent violence in Afghanistan sparked by Koran burning U.S. Pastor in Florida with HARDBALL'S Chris Matthews ...
Posted Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 4:27PM
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City which killed 146 and prompted labor reform in the United States, HBO presents its heralded documentary “TRIANGLE: REMEMBERING THE FIRE”.
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Posted Sunday, March 27th 2011 at 11:59AM
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Republicans have slashed benefits for workers, the poor, single moms and children while also slashing taxes for corporations. This year America's biggest corporation, General Electric paid nothing in income Tax. Zero. Zilch. Nada. MSNBC's Lawrence O' ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 5:03PM
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In the summer of 1937, with the Dodgers holding down their familiar spot near the bottom of the National League, the cartoonist Willard Mullin drew the unforgettable image of the “Brooklyn Bum” — a potbellied, cigar-chomping hobo who combined the che ...
Posted Saturday, March 26th 2011 at 10:33AM
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This is a bizarre, ugly turn of events.
William Cronon is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. A few days ago he wrote an oped in the Times critical of Gov. Walker and his push to abolish collective bargaining rights for public ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 9:53PM
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Jon Stewart sparred with Fox News' Bret Baier about the position of the network as a news organization during Baier's appearance on Thursday's "Daily Show."
It's not often that Fox News personalities enter the relative bear pit that is "The Daily ...
Posted Friday, March 25th 2011 at 6:03PM
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became the truth." ~ George Orwell, 1984 (published in 1949)
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town ...
Posted Thursday, March 24th 2011 at 1:59PM
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On Wednesday the Republicans on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee are holding a "public" hearingabout the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Penn. Except they're not there to listen to the public and people l ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 3:29PM
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Over the past year, I have traveled the nation speaking to nearly 100,000 educators, parents, and school-board members. No matter the city, state, or region, those who know schools best are frightened for the future of public education. They see no o ...
Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 at 10:23AM
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"Death panels" are back in the news, and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all the wrong places.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, now headed by Republicans, sent a letter to Heal ...
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 at 10:49AM
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Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War.
The Madison rally is par ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2011 at 4:19PM
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Rep. Michele Bachmann got her Revolutionary War history a bit screwed up at an event in New Hampshire today, telling the crowd: "What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You're the state where the sh ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2011 at 12:57PM
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Despite the dubious credentials of Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., as an opponent of terrorism, owing to his years fronting for the Irish Republican Army, his controversial hearings on the “Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and That ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 12:23PM
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“There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., claimed Thursday as he launched his McCarthyite probe of American Muslims. He could not have been more wrong. If King is looking for threats to our freedom ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 12:22PM
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Today, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is holding hearings in the House Homeland Security Committee singling out the Muslim American community for supposedly aiding and abetting terrorism. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Congress’s first elected Muslim, rebuked Ki ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 5:17PM
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is holding hearings singling out the Muslim American community for supposedly aiding and abetting domestic radicalization and terrorism.
When asked why he is singling out t ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 5:15PM
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On Thursday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-NY) will begin his hearings on “the Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community.” Clinging to his McCarthy-esque paranoia in the face of backlash, King continues to lo ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 9:02PM
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I like teachers. My three sisters are teachers in the public schools. They are all very good teachers; Teri won teacher of the year in her district. Two of my wonderful brother-in-laws are, or have been, teachers. One of my nephews just got accepted ...
Posted Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 11:09AM
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The jabs Erin Parker has heard about her job have stunned her. Oh you pathetic teachers, read the online comments and placards of counterdemonstrators. You are glorified baby sitters who leave work at 3 p.m. You deserve minimum wage.
“You feel pun ...
Posted Friday, March 4th 2011 at 8:23PM
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Serena Williams' absence from tennis could stretch to almost a year after two new health scares -- a blood clot in her lungs followed by a hematoma -- have added to her injury woes.
Her agents confirmed Wednesday that Williams was diagnosed with a ...
Posted Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 at 9:52PM
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