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• Olbermann Readers Scoff at Oklahoma 'War on Terrorism' License Plates

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: 9 11, Culture Society, Military, War On Terrorism, Keith Olbermann, Countdown, Msnbc, Oklahoma, Blogs, Government Amp Amp Press

  Recently Oklahoma officials announced a deadline extension to order special license plates dedicated to the global war on terrorism. Oklahoma is not the only state that has one. Virginia has had one for years that reads "Fight Terrorism" and features a Pentagon, the Twin Towers, and an American flag. In other words, this is nothing new

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• The New York Times emulating the Arizona Republic?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:16 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Media

  NYT Lite Today's New York Times is coming to its readers in a new and expanded–er–make that condensed version. Beginning today, Editor and Publisher reports, the venerable paper will reduce its page size by an inch and a half, with somewhat fewer words per page. The Gray Lady, so called for its staid appearance and adherence

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• Leave it to New York

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Foolishness

  Objectionable words banned by measure New York City councilwoman, Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, has decided our language needs cleaning up. While most of us bemoan the coarsening of speech, we also realize the inherent dangers in attempting to rein it in. Our Constitution guarantees certain freedoms. Nowhere among them is the freedom from being

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• 'Today': NY Times Goes to Bat for Bonds

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:04 am

  Tags: Culture Society, Barry Bonds, Bob Costas, George Vecsey, Matt Lauer, William Rhoden, Daily News, Nbc, New York Post, New York Times, Today, Sports

  When New-York based 'Today' went looking for a local sports reporter to defend Barry Bonds the morning after he set the career home run record, it didn't turn to the New York Post, whose headline this morning reads "JUNK BONDS: SULTAN OF SYRINGE'. Nor was it likely that the designated hitter would be someone from the Daily News, whose

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• Tucson schools: paying students to do what is expected

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Foolishness

  Bribes set the wrong example $25 a week provides incentive to stay in school. How about the promise of parental authority if they don't?

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• File this under Amazing Jury Awards

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Culture Society

  Taxpayers convicted in death of child: CPS ordered to pay mother $1.5 million Today's daily reports the disturbing case of a 9-year-old boy who died of multiple traumatic injuries, after suffering abuse while living with family members. Child Protective Services twice investigated reports of unusual bruising, but failed to remove the child

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• Honor Killing Omitted in Weinstein Movie at Iranian-American Group's Insistence

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Censorship, Corporate Liberalism, Culture Society, Double Standards, Iran, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment Media, Crossing Over, Guardian

  in some Middle Eastern cultures but not accepted in Iranian culture," NIAC president Trita Parsi said. "They sometimes happen in remote areas of Iran, but there are no cases of Iranians doing this in the US." "While we believe strongly in freedom of expression, we also believe in the importance of constructive dialogue

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• NYT: U.S. Making Life Miserable for Illegals, Says Unlabeled Hillary Pollster

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Immigration, Race Issues, Editorials, Julia Preston, Mexico, New York Times

  U.S. hostility to amnesty for illegal immigrants from Mexico is not only hurting illegals here, but crippling poor Mexicans in Mexico as well. So says the New York Times, taking its talking points from a survey performed by a pollster. To be precise, a Democratic pollster who studies Hispanic voting trends for Hillary Clinton's presidential

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• San Francisco rarely disappoints: Whether as a spectacular city or liberal bastion

  Published: August 11, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Immigration, Foolishness

  Implementing their own version of the Fairness Doctrine City officials in the City by the Bay have introduced a resolution condemning talk show host, Michael Savage for what they call his “defamatory language … against immigrants.” Outraged Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval should know a thing or two about defamatory

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• Gail Collins of the Times Finds Iowans Ineffably Droll

  Published: August 11, 2007, 5:20 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Culture Society, Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, Elitism, Iowa Straw Poll, Martha Amp 039 S Vineyard, Nantucket, New York Times, The Hamptons, Upper West Side

  butter snaked around the Agriculture Building. Since the statue itself is behind glass for climate-control reasons, the scene strongly resembled the viewing of the Piet in the Vatican. [T]he traditional Butter Cow which has to be there whether it really fits the theme or not. This was all the work of Sarah Doyle Pratt, a 30-year-old elementary

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• LA Times Item on Art Students Painting Their Anti-War Politics

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:49 am

  Tags: Culture Society, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Steve Brodner, Los Angeles Times, School Of Visual Arts

  Today's Los Angeles Times op-ed page item "The art of war" contains drawings on the subject of the Iraq war done by students of visual arts teacher Steve Brodner at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The drawing displayed here, of Pres. Bush in a bubble floating over a mound of skulls, typifies the attitudes expressed, all of

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• A rational perspective

  Published: August 12, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Culture Society, Terrorism, Media

  Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser asks: Where do Muslims stand? In the Dallas Holy Land Foundation trial this week, FBI agent Lara Burns publicly confirmed to a federal jury that the Council on American-Islamic Relations functions as the Palestine Committee of the International Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Such revelations deserve a thorough public

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• That old discrimination knife slices both ways

  Published: August 16, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Culture Society

  New Orleans District Attorney in a costly gumbo The New Orleans Times-Picayune provides an astonishing article regarding the office of the Orleans Parish District Attorney, Eddie Jordan, accused of violating the civil rights of White employees when he took over the office in 2003. Within days of assuming office (previously held for nearly three

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• Your tax dollars at work

  Published: August 24, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: County City Issues, Culture Society, Foolishness

  Are Liberals taking over the East Valley? The City of Mesa is considering implementing a Healing Racism program. Previous topics covered by the Human Relations Advisory Board included interracial marriage, gender and race, biracial and multiracial identities, and immigration and race. How about this novel topic for the city to explore?

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• Democrats weigh in on family values

  Published: August 25, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Arizona Politics, Mirth, Culture Society

  Ah, the topsy-turvy world of politics The Arizona Democrat party is outraged that nudist ranch owner Horst Kraus has been appointed to the state GOP finance committee. There are valid reasons to be concerned about Kraus, but for the Democrats to be so inflamed about his clothing optional resort somehow strikes us as humorous. Have they

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