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MULLAH BOEHNER

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If John Boehner’s fervent desire is to be on TV all the time, he is wildly successful.  Does it matter to him what he is famous for? That he is engaging in bringing down the American economy as part of his mission to bring down Obama? This is the Holy War of the ideologically blind … Read more

DAVY’S!

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Jeff Haus is doing a Davy Crockett project.  Here’s a page of Davy’s on screen and stage, including a certain red haired ring-tailed roarer out of the Rabbit Ears shop of about 20 years ago.  Well, I’ll be a cross-eyed catfish. How many of these can you name?  Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1937148067511.2106084.1206646015

HOMELESS IN DC by Cameron K. Lewis

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HOMELESSNESS IN DC BY CAMERON K. LEWIS The boy in this image represents merely one of the thousands of people in homeless families in our nation’s capital. When new mayor Vincent Gray took office, he opted to makes cuts to the city’s budget rather than raise taxes, creating a $20.5 million gap in aid for … Read more

BRAIN OF NEWT

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In Sunday’s NY Times Magazine, the homework assignment from hell.  “What does Newt Gingrich Know?”  by Andrew Ferguson, who endeavored to read each of Newt Gingrich’s 23 books . . . and lived.  A great piece about a man who is a true legend in his own mind.   “As I write, a stack of … Read more

THE NEW YORKER: Uglie Olde England

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In this week’s New Yorker, a searing story by Lauren Collins about the town of Luton, which is blazing trails in the new frontier of Euro-racism. Unemployment, underemployment and culture have played parts in creating a festering mutual hate.  Muslims, for their part, contribute as well. Avery good read. Abstract here:

LETTER FROM LUTON about the English Defence League and the rise of the Islamophobic right in Great Britain. In February, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, delivered a speech on Islamist extremism to the delegates of the forty-seventh Munich Security Conference. In Cameron’s

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