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THE DANGERS OF REFUDIATION

                                                      THE WEBSTERIANSarah Palin, never a stranger to controversy, decided to weigh in on the one raging over the plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero -- that is, a mosque and community center two blocks north of where...
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PONTIUS PILATE & JAY BYBEE

                                      ANTHONY QUINN & FRIENDS37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.       Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify...
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WHEN PIGS FLY

A flying pig is an adynaton, that is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility. Thus the popular saying that something will happen "when pigs fly" or...
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ANACHRONISM & RACISM

                                                     FREDERICK DOUGLASS                                   A RECENT TEA PARTY RALLYWho the hell is Mark Williams anyway? Mark Williams is Mark Williams is an American radio host and author (Books: It's Not Right Versus Left, It's Right Versus Wrong; Exposing the Socialist...
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THE SPECIFIC & THE GENERAL

                                                                                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUmHqlPf5Y There is the specific and then there is the general. We tend to use a specific example to prove the general rule. There are obvious flaws in this approach to rhetoric. A specific example cannot prove the...
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FREQUENT FLYERS

                                             A FREQUENT FLYERI found this little tidbit at The Beast today: What hath Sully wrought? Every single goose--including the babies--was rounded up, put in crates, and gassed to death in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week. The geese--about 400...
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FOR WANT OF A NAIL

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the battle was lost; For want of...
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CERTIFICATION

Geoffrey Chaucer Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways...
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SCREWED BY SCROOGE

                                  SCROOGE McDUCKThis somehow led to a lesson Paul said Kentuckians should hold dear: Sure there are "problems" with the way America deals with the poor, but when they think about it, poor folks should thank goodness they're not stuck...
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ATTACK OF THE KILLER LEMONS

   PINK LEMONADE KOOL-ADERepublican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has moderated a host of policy positions in her transition from a primary candidate to general election contender battling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. One thing she has not backed away...

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