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July 31st, 2016 - 10:19 am § in Misc.

Hillary and Donald Respond to The Father of an American Muslimn Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

  Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: ‘I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices’ In his first response to a searing charge that he’d “sacrificed nothing” for the U.S., Trump said he’d created “thousands and thousands of jobs.”[...]

July 28th, 2016 - 9:49 am § in Misc., Russia

David Brewster: The Putin connection with American Politics

David Brewster An interesting essay on the Putin connection with American politics and how it foretells a new age of influencing political outcomes in other countries. The author writes: “The signature Russian intelligence operation of the future, and indeed of the present, is not going to unf[...]

July 26th, 2016 - 6:46 am § in Misc.

Chinazor: AMERICA: GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Growing up in my hometown, Ibusa, Nigeria, there is a refrain you hear over and over as a kid – “My father’s farm is bigger than yours,” which is always met with, “If you haven’t been to another farm, you think your father’s farm is bigger.” In high sc[...]

July 1st, 2016 - 8:19 am § in Misc.

Native Americans protest Redskins’ name

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June 30th, 2016 - 9:28 am § in Misc.

Open Elections For Political Parties Can Not Work in America

The problem here is the American idea of what a political party is. To  function as a party, the D or the R needs to be a party.  A party needs a structure, ti needs leaders.  Those leaders need ot be chosen by some mechanism.  Usually that means D or R politicians who get elected also get to[...]

June 10th, 2016 - 10:28 am § in Misc.

How many Americans are transgender?

Short answer: Nobody really knows, because the Census doesn’t collect that data. A UCLA think tank estimates about 0.3% of the population, which is just under 1 million people. That’s a lot of people. Read story here.[...]

June 4th, 2016 - 3:44 pm § in Politics

America’s evolving pee culture

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May 10th, 2016 - 9:50 am § in Misc.

How American Politics Works

Budweiser rebrands as ‘America’ in lead-up to US election Beer cans and bottles will be renamed ‘America’ until November, with lyrics to Woody Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land also appearing THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY SAM THIELMAN[...]

May 7th, 2016 - 5:50 pm § in Schools & Colleges

Why America Isn’t Great Anymore

Passenger terrified by math; professor escorted off plane “‘A flight was delayed for more than two hours on Thursday after a paranoid passenger suspected a professor writing out math equations was a terrorist[,]’ American Airlines confirmed.”  (Read story here.) Photo: Unive[...]

May 1st, 2016 - 10:59 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.

Comparing The Palestinians to the Indigenous Americans

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