Does this mean the United States will have enough armed private contractors in place when uniformed Americans withdraw? Or is it simply time to declare victory and get out while we still can? Bookmark It
Archive for Category: "The Shadow Knows"
What Santorum really meant
Frank Luntz
You can’t make this shit up
$1M-a-year working stiff
Five scientific reasons
Central Government for Dummies
The Facebook bubble
French underground art
Strategic brain damage
Free people do bad things
The human cost
Who’d benefit from pipeline?
Other News
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Regime The Shadow Knows
Obama: Afghan pullout plan on track
Does this mean the United States will have enough armed private contractors in place when uniformed Americans withdraw? Or is it simply time to declare victory and get out while we still can? Bookmark It
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Arts & Music Humor
Cheer up, give us a grin…
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Media Politics As Usual
R.I.P.
Andrew Breitbart, 43. Since this is Andrew Breitbart and a fake news announcement is something we can’t rule out, we’re waiting for confirmation from other sources. Which kind of sums up his legacy. UPDATE: FOx, CNN, TPM, other sources now confirm. Bookmark It
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Humor Media The New Depression
Bury the lede, it’s too depressing
Robert Reich started a recent column by looking on the bright side: “Economic cheerleaders on Wall Street and in the White House are taking heart. The US has had three straight months of faster job growth…” He then inched his way down to the real lede of his piece: “The negative wealth effect of home values, combined with declining wages, makes it highly unlikely the US will enjoy a robust recovery any time soon.” Bookmark It
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Arts & Music
March Photo A Day Challenge
Now, this looks like fun. This is a link to March Photo A Day Challenge. It has a calendar with a daily word for inspiration for a photo. Today’s is “Up.” One doesn’t need a fancy camera, in fact, many just use the camera on their phones. Upload the shots onto your favorite social media. I’ve gotten together with some virtual “social media” friends to share our photographs. It will be nice to share our creativity. Bookmark It
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Higher Ground Media
NPR’s new goal – be ‘fair to the truth’
A new ethics handbook released by National Public Radio seems to indicate the network is reacting in a positive way to persistent criticism of its “he said, she said” approach to the news. According to Jay Rosen of PressThink, the new handbook bluntly states that “a report characterized by false balance is a false report.” It calls for reportage that rejects false balance in favor of reportage that’s “fair to the truth.” Rosen reprints two key passages from the new [...]
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#OccupyWallStreet Class War Featured Fuck the Poor Politics As Usual The New Depression
Gov. Tom Corbett, the invisible man
Marcus Hook was one of the towns I covered as a reporter, and now it’s on the edge of losing the one main industry. The Republican governor is largely indifferent to their plight: “Marcus Hook is a town teetering on the edge of destruction. Last year, Sunoco Oil announced that it would shut down its refinery in Marcus Hook. This refinery has employed residents for generations; it provides a tax base for the community, and directly funds part of the [...]
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Class War Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Politics As Usual
Allow me to translate
Miners are disposable. Bookmark It
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