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• That's a lot, even by Facebook standards

  Who knew BP was even that popular? Almost 19,000 fans for BP. Huh.
  
  
  Yes, I'm doing this in hopes that Google Ads will dump some BP ads on me, so you can click on them, and I can do my part to drain a few pennies from' [...]
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• Sigh

  This is what demonizing a population gets you:

  At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims.
  
  "Go home," several shouted from the crowd.
  
  "Get out," others shouted.
  
  In fact, the two men [...]

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• I should never read Thomas Friedman

  I really shouldn't, because all it does to me is make me shake my head and wonder about the world he inhabits, and why he's getting a paycheck for this. Take today's column, for instance. Hell, take the first paragraph:

  As a friend of both Turkey and Israel, it has' [...]

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• Shorter Bishop Olmsted: Women's lives are irrelevant

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  I'd like to think that some day, the Catholic Church will be nothing but a bunch of men yelling about how unclean women are while the women who were once Catholic shake their heads and wonder what took them so long to leave an institution that seems to hate them.' [...]
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• What about the Cubans?

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  This morning, The Miami Herald reported that Republican candidates for statewide races had come out firmly in support of Arizona's recent immigration laws, and have suggested Florida should follow suit. (Rubio isn't quoted in the Herald, but he's in support of the law as well.) But I think' [...]
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• Dear Republicans:

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  To the RNC in particular, which is acting pretty stupidly right now, I have some words. I understand that, for any political party, the nomination of someone to the Supreme Court is an opportunity for fundraising, and that the party is going to go to some pretty outlandish lengths [...]
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• Again, it's not all about you

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  Tina Harden brought the books back, she says because she'd brought attention to the issue, and not because of the attention she'd received. Or the fact that others had donated more copies of those books to the library (so many that the library is refusing to accept them now). [...]
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• Gone for the Green, Green Grass

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  About a month ago, I went down my driveway to go to work, and I saw my neighbor had torn up his lawn. It wasn't just a part of the lawn, and it's not a small lawn: we're talking a half acre of land turned to naked dirt. Our neighbor' [...]
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• It's Not All About You

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  Amy told me about this yesterday--Tina Harden is an Orlando mom who thinks she ought to be able to decide, unilaterally, which books belong on the public library's shelves.

  Longwood parent Tina Harden was so disturbed by references to sex and drugs and foul language in the world of' [...]

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• Foreign Until Proven Innocent

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  Note: this piece ran earlier today at The Rumpus.
  
  Joe Lieberman is introducing something he calls the Terrorist Expatriation Act--TEA Act for short, though the redundancy seems lost on them--which would make it possible for the State Department to strip the citizenship from anyone they determine is [...]
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