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Please Don’t Marry Our Daughters
— Brad Stone, Bits: a New York Times Blog
The website covered by this article is thankfully a prank. Yikes.
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Bush orders new crackdown on U.S. border
— Mike Allen, Politico.com
It’s about freakin’ time. There is a lot of broken trust to be recovered in these matters. Example: The new Bush immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed — Michelle Malkin
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Six months on, Vista users still griping
– Jessica Mintz, AP on MSNBC.com
See also these recent articles on Slashdot: Programs Cannot Be Uninstalled In Vista? — kdawson Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe — CmdrTaco Warning On Office 2007 “Try-Before-You-Buy” — kdawson
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A brilliant defense against liberal charges of “hypocrisy”.
James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today column for July 11th contains such a brilliant insight from a reader, which I can’t link to directly. So I simply must quote it here in full: “Hypocrisy does not mean saying one thing and doing the opposite. It means saying something that one does not believe. Let’s [...]
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Not Wallpaper — Devona, Love and Blunder
“…I think every nursing mom has learned how to blend in with her surroundings. Lean back, space out, and don’t dare make eye contact with anyone. You don’t want to notice when they avert their eyes. Just accept the fact that your adorable child who usually has enough charm to start a conversation with anyone [...]
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The Earmark Reform Index — Porkbusters
“Is your senator a friend or foe of earmark reform? Lots of Washington politicians talk a good case about eliminating wasteful federal spending but how many of them actually vote for needed reforms? The Examiner Newspapers/Porkbusters.org Earmark Reform Index shows who in the U.S. Senate is walking the talk and who’s blowing smoke hoping voters [...]
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Declaration of Independence, graph 1
“IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America…” When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which [...]
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Declaration of Independence, graph 2.2
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such [...]
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Declaration of Independence, graph 2.3
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Declaration of Independence, graph 2.4
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.