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Antiestablishmentarianism: Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'

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News I Can Use. Monday, September 11, 2006. On This Day in History: Courtesy of News Links. Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'. File this under buried leads:. That was December 2001. Only two months later, Bush decided to pull out most of the special operations troops and their CIA counterparts in the paramilitary division that were leading the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for war in Iraq, said Flynt L. Leverett, then an expert on the Middle East at the National Security Council. The handful of...

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The Intolerable Banality of Evil: Governor, You're No Jack Kennedy

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The Intolerable Banality of Evil. An uncomfortably close look at the Human Condition by an unrepentant Liberal. Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. - Miguel de Cervantes. Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table. - W. H. Auden. Beware the person who offers simple solutions to complex problems. - Me. Thursday, December 06, 2007. Governor, You're No Jack Kennedy. The church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Cathol...

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Word-Ex: November 2010

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Sunday, November 14, 2010. I'm used to spell-checks rejecting most of my words-of-the-day. I see little reason to post common words. In today's word, henotheism. However, spell-check rejected my spelling of a more common word - worshipping. Is it only one 'p'? No, say I. But what's the rule? Verbs ending in ‘p’. Most verbs ending in ‘p’, after an unstressed vowel. Fowler's makes the point that it's worshiped. Where the final syllable is not stressed, except for worship. Posted by Jim Gepp. It means infer...

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Word-Ex: Colding

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Friday, October 8, 2010. The billboard read "Intentional Colding". It was an ad for beer. It was football themed. It was an obvious play on the phrase "intentional holding." Only this was a good thing. One has to wonder, though, who's buying this. It's not uncommon to see beer companies advertise the coldness of their beers, as if it were some intrinsic quality of the product. But of course, regardless of brand, your beer will be as cold as your refrigerator. There is a reactionary movement brewing.

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Word-Ex: Pping!

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Sunday, November 14, 2010. I'm used to spell-checks rejecting most of my words-of-the-day. I see little reason to post common words. In today's word, henotheism. However, spell-check rejected my spelling of a more common word - worshipping. Is it only one 'p'? No, say I. But what's the rule? Verbs ending in ‘p’. Most verbs ending in ‘p’, after an unstressed vowel. Fowler's makes the point that it's worshiped. Where the final syllable is not stressed, except for worship. Posted by Jim Gepp.

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Word-Ex: October 2010

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Friday, October 22, 2010. Why is it called a cockpit? For today's word, internecine. I found a quote from 1893. When we speak of the struggle for existence, the popular view seems to construe this into the theory that the world is a mere cockpit. In which one race carries on an internecine struggle with the other," ten years before the Wright Brothers. Here is meant in the sense of, "a pit or enclosure for cockfights." But that took me a moment. Posted by Jim Gepp. Sunday, October 17, 2010. We hold these...

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Word-Ex: Certain Unalienable Rights

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Sunday, October 17, 2010. I saw an ad that referred to unalienable rights, but isn't it inalienable. I had to think for a moment and answered, "Yes, I think it is.". Naturally we were both wrong. At least, wrong in the sense that the Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable. Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Uses the terms inalienable. And som...

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Antiestablishmentarianism: Onward Injured Soldiers

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News I Can Use. Sunday, March 11, 2007. On This Day in History: Courtesy of News Links. As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records. The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq. Robinson asked rhetorically&#46...

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Antiestablishmentarianism: How Bush Lost the "War on Terror"

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News I Can Use. Friday, November 23, 2007. On This Day in History: Courtesy of News Links. How Bush Lost the "War on Terror". How Osama bin Laden Beat George W. Bush. By Peter Bergen, New America Foundation. The New Republic October 22, 2007. To understand the terror network’s resurgence - and its continued ability to harm us - we need to reexamine all the ways in which the administration has failed to crush it. America’s most formidable foe - once practically dead - is back. This is one of the most ...