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Barney Frank calls out Dennis Hastert & GOP hypocrisy with a perfect statement
Barney Frank called out Dennis Hastert and the GOP for their hypocrisy on moral values and gay issues in a manner only he could. He was referring to the indictment of former Republican Speaker of the...
View ArticleIn Longmont, CO: Gay Valedictorian gets silenced by HS principal, then outed...
Clearly, we still have a looong way to go fighting for LGBTQIA acceptance.From Boulder's Daily Camera:http://www.dailycamera.com/...A St. Vrain Valley charter school's leadership is under fire from gay...
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Florida police murder black computer engineer as he listens to music;...
Jermaine McBean selfie on the left, with his family on the rightOn July 31, 2013, Jermaine McBean, a 33-year-old computer engineer with no criminal record, paid $100 for a camouflage BB gun at his...
View ArticleWhy I'm a Dem - Rant from Southern White Male, Mid 40's, Business Owner
I am a mid forties white male living in the South. With my accent and business background, people assume I am a conservative. When they find out I am a democrat, many are surprised and often ask,...
View ArticleHexaflexagons: This short video about geometry and scraps of paper will...
Hat tip to Simplify, who posted this video over in the comments of Daniel Donner's maps diary. It's just so mesmerizing that I had to post it in a diary so that others saw it too.Seriously, it's one of...
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America Before Pearl Harbor - Early Kodachrome Images
When we think of America during the Great Depression, we often picture it in shades of grey. It was a grim era and nearly all of the photographs we see are in black and white. This is one of Dorothea...
View ArticleIf Our Founding Fathers Were All Christians, Why Did They Say This?
Nobody can deny the fact that Christianity has played a huge role in our history. From the first Thanksgiving to the ideas of Jesus Christ that are embroidered in our culture today, Christianity and...
View ArticleTone, Truth, and the Democratic Party
Update [2005-9-30 10:38:41 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando. Since it is not our normal practice to promote diaries from our representatives, I think I should explain why I chose to promote...
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Political geography: What if Appalachia were its own state?
Blue Ridge Mountains near Mount Mitchell, NCAppalachia is a vast geographic and cultural region in the eastern United States, defined by the 2,000+ mile mountain range running through it. Containing...
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Two in 10 Americans expect to be millionaires within a decade
Less than 1 in 20 American households has a million dollars, but 2 in 10 Americans believe they'll become a millionaire in the next decade, according to a new AP-CNBC poll. That's clearly undue...
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Health care glossary updated
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Dear GOP, here's how you change a law
Dear GOP,For a crowd that loves to bray about the Constitution, it seems you have misplaced your copy. How else to explain your bizarre efforts to destroy the world unless you get your way? You don't...
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A 98 square foot home of their own
Occupy Madison volunteers have been working to combat homelessness in Madison, Wisconsin. This year they launched an ambitious project to start building small, portable homes for Madison's homeless....
View ArticleWashington Post Blog Prints Heartbreaking Letter from Teacher
Yesterday, the Answer Sheet, an education blog for the Washington Post, published a heartbreaking letter from a teacher that was deeply disturbing. Susan Sluyter, the teacher in question, wrote the...
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Pat Sajak: 'Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly...
I hadn't been aware that Pat Sajak still exists, but apparently, his TV show is still enormously popular. Sajak is a right-wing Republican and an asshole. A frothing major league asshole: No word if...
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Independence Day Special: Thirteen Facts About America Conservatives Would...
1. Conservatives opposed the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and a lot of other righteous stuff as well.By definition a conservative is one who wishes to preserve and/or restore traditional...
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GOP Columnist: The VERY Bad News FOR THE GOP in the GOP's Midterm Victory
A GOP strategist, columnist at the Houston Chronicle who goes by the handle GOPLifer, Chris Ladd, has declared that the week of the Midterm Elections “was a dark week for Republicans, and for everyone...
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Thomas Jefferson, hypocrite. Robert 'Councillor' Carter, emancipator.
Robert Carter III of Nomini Hall, Virginia Every time I have to hear yet another paean to the Founding Fathers, or see George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as graven images on Mount Rushmore, I think...
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Breathtaking Photos of the Human Species
I'll offer these 21 incredible photos of people from all over the world with little commentary. Words would diminish their import. I will say this: some are happy and some are sad.... and they are all...
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