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- The Dumbing Of America
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
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- Campus shooters used same gun dealer - UPI.com
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  GREEN BAY, Wis., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Authorities say a gunman accused of killing five students in Illinois and the shooter in killings last year at Virginia Tech used the same gun dealer.
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- Atlanta Is Running Out of Water - OhmyNews International
  Posted by Villagenyc from OhMyNews
  Atlanta grew faster than kudzu as investors helped attract residents to the area's low cost of living and warm climate. But the arms of expansion extended well beyond the glass towers of downtown, sprawling out some 60 miles in either direction, presenting infrastructural challenges common to uncontrolled growth. Still, construction and bigger highways kept Atlanta's economic engine churning. That is, until a once in a lifetime drought threatened the region's most precious natural resource
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- Details emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
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  New reports underscore the extraordinary scope of a law passed earlier this month expanding government powers to spy on the population in the US and internationally.
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- Growing Up American: Words From Generation X
  Posted by Orato
  I grew up in a family who I always considered to walk the fine line between conservative and liberal. Before I was born, my father was in the Navy, stationed on a ship during the early days of the Vietnam War. My maternal gr-grandfather was in the Civil War. My paternal uncle was in the Army. My paternal cousin was in the Navy and is now in the Army, as an MP doing his tour of duty in Iraq...
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- Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality
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  April was a not a good month for the Republican Party. Two Congressional Republicans were forced to step down from their seats on powerful House committees amidst separate corruption and influence-peddling investigations—and may eventually lose their seats in Congress or go to jail—while the head of the US Agency for International Development, Randall Tobias, resigned from his post Monday after he was named as a client of a Washington DC call girl service.
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- The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia
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  The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”
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acommontater comments on:
U.S. to rely on Russia for manned spaceflight - International Herald Tribune

McCain denounced Russia as a KGB run state and has called to oust Russia from the G8. How will this partnership be affected if he gets voted in?

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5:26 am 10/07/08
pradip comments on:
Dead Black Man Was Tasered Nine Times by White Cop

they are rascals like a mad pig

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4:39 am 7/29/08
pradip comments on:
Dead Black Man Was Tasered Nine Times by White Cop

white police officer are ghost & bastard

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4:38 am 7/29/08
JXC comments on:
United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians
If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?
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11:34 am 5/28/08
Jwgardner comments on:
Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

Meanwhile, Hillary’s camp praises Fox for the most ‘balanced’ news coverage, and for a ton of supposedly-democratic Hillaryites, no alarm bells are sounded. This whole cycle has gone right out of hand with the absurd disconnections from reality and unnecessarily puffed up emotions.

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6:55 pm 4/04/08
Jeff comments on:
Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

I will say I was disgusted to see Ferraro on Fox News again today. No intelligent politician – nor any democrat should spend a second on that set.

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4:30 pm 4/03/08
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

this sucks

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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognized Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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