The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Some Bits of News and Revelations You'll Want to Know About

    By we are stardust on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:15am |
    I'm pressed for time just now, so I put these items into a potpourri of descriptions and links.  Something for everyone here, I think; but only two pieces of Good News.    EPA whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman is a senior policy...
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    AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 8:18pm |
                                                                                  YOUNG WINSTONLimbaugh went on to discuss Obama's upcoming appearance on The View and said "every day Obama is in that office he denigrates it."In the second hour, Limbaugh shifted his attacks to the left as a whole, claiming, "if I were...

    The Magnetic President

    By Ripper on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 4:47pm |
    With a smile as warm and broad as any of his predecessors, a charisma that brought seas of humanity shoulder-to-shoulder to light their candles of hope from his torch, and a way of engaging the issues that was so calm,...

    Reflecting on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 20 Years and a Day Later

    By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:45pm |
    July 26 brings back fond memories of watching, with my parents in attendance, Bush I sign the ADA into law on the White House lawn.  I worked as a Congressional committee staffer behind the scenes in strong support of that law. ...
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    Best Blackwater Story Ever; Obama DOJ Declines to Prosecute

    By we are stardust on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 10:43am |
      Back in 1997, when Sudan's Muslim North under Omar al Bashir waged civil war against the mostly Christian and animist South, killing over two million people and causing millions more to flee, President Bill Clinton enacted comprehensive sanctions...
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    THE MIRACLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    By Richard Day on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 5:10am |
           1st Lancashire Fusiliers, in communication trench near Beaumont Hamel,                                   Somme, 1916. Photo by Ernest Brooks. I have a buddy in his early forties working full time for the county as a social worker. The guy has real street...

    Complete Wikileaks Afghan War Diary and Data. (Updated)

    By kgb999 on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 8:28am |
    (Update: fixed the link to the online repository .... the link I used has been downloading one of the databases. This link should allow anyone to browse the reports online and has not demonstrated access problems that the main Wikileaks...
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    BRAVEFART: PART II

    By Richard Day on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 12:59am |
                             THE RNC SEEKING MORE CONTRIBUTIONSPart One: herehttp://tpmcafe.BraveFart sees that he has not been dreaming and thathe has uncovered a case of mistaken identities. The forces of good must have somehow gotten the wrong address and have attacked the people...
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    To Whom it May Concern re: Medical Insurance Coverage

    By wws on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 7:41pm |
      Ms. Templesman Claims Adjustment Supervisor Just Say No Health Insurance, Inc. 23588 Cartel Parkway Alexandria, VA 21351-0000   Dear Ms. Templesman:  I write in reference to Claim #1297-5576-342-22-015. My JSNHI group number, ID number and PPO policy code...
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    Worse Than Hiroshima: Fallujah's Health Nightmare After Operation 'Vigilant Resolve'

    By we are stardust on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 4:42pm |
    (This is just a heads-up post, no analysis, no brave call to arms, just a morbid report that is hard to pass on to you.)   What are we doing to the people of the world? A major study released...
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    To Whom it May Concern

    By wws on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 9:32pm |
    The printer hummed and clicked, smoothly sucking in blank paper and spitting out the carefully-crafted letters Susan had written during the past week. Letters she had considered writing, depending on the Addressee, for a long time. Letters she had...
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    BRAVEFART, AN OPERETTA IN SIX PARTS

    By Richard Day on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 8:22pm |
    Written by some schmuck in his pj's. Directed by Mel Gibson Produced by the National Republican Heritage Enterprise Institute STARRING:   Mel the Gibson as Bravefart; the Jew hating, Black baiting, Mexicali desecrating misogynist, the new hope for the...
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    Modern Times

    By Barth on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 6:27pm |
    I missed the McCarthy era. Technically speaking, I was around at the tail end of his tenure as ruler of the airwaves and print, but, as a new born, my access to those organs of communication was quite limited, and...

    Fast Forward: September 6, 2010

    By AmericanDreamer on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 1:26am |
    (from the first draft of President Obama's address to the nation, following September 6, 2010 Senate passage of $150 billion jobs bill earlier passed by the House, and asking the public to pressure their elected officials to support, as he...

    Nerds vs. Westboro

    By kgb999 on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:21pm |
    Best counter protest EV-VAR! That is all....
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    THE 2010 DARTH VADER AWARDS!!!

    By Richard Day on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:15pm |
                                                         VICE-PRESIDENT RICHARD CHENEY This robber is going to have quite the following on the internet: A man robbed a bank on Long Island Thursday morning while wearing a Darth Vader mask. He didn't have the full costume--he wore...

    Solar power generation takes a big step forward.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 7:41pm |
    File this one under cool stuff that it would be nice if the US had developed. This month in Italy, a new type of Concentrating Solar Power facility was brought online. To me, this is one of the more exciting...
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    Tea Party, Specter of Beck makes USDA and NAACP Cave. Can we get any Lower?

    By Ramona on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:22pm |
    What does it take for us to be fired up? This perversion of American politics has to come to a screeching halt. We're not all blithering idiots--at least not yet. So who's afraid of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann and the All Powerful Tea Party? Not me and not you, but I'm not feeling any better about it. We don't count. When the government and the press kowtow to the likes of those dangerous buffoons, they become nothing more than powerless sidekicks. That's just nuts.
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    I'M GOIN' DOWN

    By Richard Day on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 7:38pm |
                                          The Barque of DanteWe sit in the car outside your house, whoah I can feel the heat coming 'round I go to put my arm around you And you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds...
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    The Public Option? Alive? Could it be?

    By CVille Dem on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 4:59pm |
    From  ThinkProgress.org there is news that may give us all some hope:Just when you thought the last nail had been driven in the public option coffin months ago, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the public option has once again returned...
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    Is the President Plagued by Fear?

    By we are stardust on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 11:13am |
    (Request: Try not to go knee-jerk at the question.)   Over the past month or two on the Café boards, both on the Left Side and, to a lesser degree, the Right side, this question has come into play. ...
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    What Sherrod Deserves

    By Joe Wood on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 2:10am |
    The Obama administration--namely Secretary Tom Vilsack--made a huge blunder by not handling this sensitive issue with care and discretion.  Any White House official, and any administration official--who took the ball and simply rolled it without asking questions, digging, or fact-checking--is guilty...

    Race and the Right Wing Agenda

    By Ripper on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 7:10pm |
    The manufactured controversy of Shirley Sherrod's speech to a local NAACP group in Georgia, like the manufactured controversy of the Obama Justice Department's treatment of the New Black Panther Party, are the kind of tempests in a teapot that Fox's...
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    ANOMALIES

    By Richard Day on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 6:59pm |
    AFRICAN COUPLE GIVES BIRTH TO WHITE BABY A blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby was born Sunday in Britain to a black couple with no known white ancestry. Doctors said the baby, named Nmachi Ihegboro, is not an albino, though the BBC...

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