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Simply Evil: A decade after 9/11, it remains the best description and most essential fact about al-Qaida.
Hitchens’ most recent article from Slate on the Topic of Al Qaida, terrorism, and the response of the last 10 years.
Anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and temperance activist Frances Willard had an epic media battle a century before such public feuds were cool.
The two had much in common. Proponents of female suffrage, public health and child education, they shared goals, friends and the conviction that women should play a role in the public sphere. Yet Wells and Willard were unable to form a productive partnership. Instead, they seriously vexed each other. In the mid-1890s, when they both traveled to England on speaking tours, their disagreements morphed into a cross-Atlantic public media battle.
A map of the mobile turf wars. Which platform dominates your state?
According to a Gallup Poll released yesterday, Muslim Americans are far less likely than other Americans to back military attacks on citizens.
Besides Americans with no religious affiliation, no other group (Mormon, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) had even a majority of their people vote the same way. And 89 percent of Muslim Americans believe citizen-on-citizen attacks are never OK.
Washington, D.C., has the highest rate of alcohol abuse in the country, but where do the nation’s biggest binge drinkers, pot users and cigarette smokers congregate? Here’s a map of our sins.
New census results find that more same-sex couple describe living under the same roof:
The numbers have emerged all summer long, a few states at a time. There was a 55 percent increase in male partner households in Wisconsin, from 3,862 in 2000 to 6,003 in 2010 and an 83 percent increase in female partner households in Oklahoma, from 2,952 to 5,409.
Fans flying, and wearing, the stars and stripes will be out in force in Pretoria on Wednesday when the U.S. faces Algeria.
due to the strong backlash over wearing the Canadian swag Gibbs immediately backtracked : /
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“It’s just crushing,” “We haven’t been doing so well against Americans. [Canadian goalkeeper] Martin Brodeur, we’ve got to knock him out of there.” “I think the U.S.A. is going to win the tournament,”
What would that result engender on the streets of Vancouver, the hockey ponds of Saskatchewan and the shores of the Maritime provinces? Brodie’s eyes popped as he took a deep breath: it looked like he was told he had months to live.
Doug Brodie, a retired technical writer from Windsor, Ontario
Canada at the Olympics: It’s Time to Panic - Time
after last night’s USA olympic hockey win this should bring us down to earth.
Great news; the United States does not have the highest murder rate in the world. We’re number two.
via daily kos via thinkprogress Yglesias
