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Althouse: 1. Chelsea Clinton running NYU's "multifaith" institute. 2. The Harvard Kennedy School granting a PhD for a dissertation about the IQ of Hispanic immigrants.
1. We learn today that Chelsea Clinton will take on "a 'multifaith' role as co-founder and co-chair of [NYU's] brand-new Of Many Institute, a program to "develop multifaith dialogue and train multifaith leaders." It should be noted, in this context, that ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:31am -07:00T (286 words)
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Althouse: "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker: Why did we love him?"
More cogitation about instant YouTube stars of the lowly outsider kind — this time from Monica Hesse of The Washington Post. There are a lot of words here, but I don't think she makes any progress in the long-running game of Understanding the Internet. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:46am -07:00T (106 words)
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PrairiePundit: Iran sent troops to save Assad's Syria
Washington Post:
Iran has sent soldiers to Syria to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.An unknown number of Iranians are fighting i...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:34am -07:00T (290 words)
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America's Watchtower: The IRS knew one year ago they “inappropriately” targeted conservatives but hid that information until after the election
The big news of the day to come out in the IRS hearing–aside from the claim that Lois Lerner might have accidentally waived her fifth amendment right–and I have a problem with this because a constitutional right is a constitutional righ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:03pm -07:00T (783 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: Forex Secret Protocol Trading Methods
Exactly what is the contrast between a prosperous forex traders and a failure trader? Can it be because that we now have some forex Secret Protocol trading techniques that the successful traders have along with the failures don’t?
Before we arrive a...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:03am -07:00T (572 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Can Chris Christie win the GOP nomination?
Chris Christie poking fun at himself on David Letterman
There’s a new “Happy Warrior” on the political scene — and an unlikely one, since critics have long called him a bully with anger-control issues.
But consider Gov. Chris Christie ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:33am -07:00T (208 words)
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The Moderate Voice: The President Explains His ‘Policy Shift’ on Armed Drones
In a major speech at the National Defense University in Washington, President Obama explained and defended his administration’s use of armed drones in the war on terror, outlined the legal basis behind their use and announced steps and standards for sel...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:45pm -07:00T (2349 words)
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The Moderate Voice: “Self” Is a Misnomer
[This is the third post in the series Why Everything You Know about Your "Self" Is Wrong. The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.]
As suggested in the two...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:18pm -07:00T (966 words)
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Balloon Juice: One day at a time
My family and I haven’t lost anything. We’ve been majorly inconvenienced, but we have a house (electricity got turned back on yesterday), we have family who have resources nearby, we have our jobs and incomes. We are so much better off tha...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:30am -07:00T (617 words)
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The Reaction: Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, E.W. Jackson, apparently also running for Worst Republican Ever
By Michael J.W. Stickings Okay, here's what we know about this crazy guy so far: -- He thinks President Obama sees the world from "a Muslim perspective" and is anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. -- He thinks gays are "very sick people psychologically." -- ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 9:31am -07:00T (309 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Will Obama Take China’s President to Disneyland?
The President will be meeting China’s President Xi Jinping for a summit in southern California next month, raising hopes it will go better than a bizarre Cold War flap over barring a Soviet leader from visiting Disneyland.
In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev cam...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 10:45am -07:00T (218 words)
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Balloon Juice: Texas, Jake
How’s this for a catch 22:A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can’t live together because of a morality clause in one of the women’s divorce papers.The clause is common in divorce cases in Texas and other states. It prev...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 10:45am -07:00T (218 words)
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Blogs of War: Soldier “Beheaded” in Woolwich (South East London) by Two Attackers: Video of Alleged Attacker
There is a furious online debate about the media’s characterization of the attackers in the opening minutes of this event. There are also charges of racism, actual racism, and the usual debates over immigration and the definition of terrorism. Expe...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 1:15pm -07:00T (136 words)
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Balloon Juice: Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Mars Needs Replicators!
Oh, c’mon, you couldn’t resist either. From the Washington Post:… Yes, it’s another case of life imitating “Star Trek” (remember the food replicator?). In this case, though, the creators hope there is an application beyond deep-sp...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:45pm -07:00T (267 words)
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Sister Toldjah: Around the Web: Headlines You Might Have Missed
”Read all about it!”
The deadly tornado in Oklahoma and the various scandals that comprise Obama’s “Scandalpalooza” have understandably been the MSM’s main focus this week so I wanted to link up to some interesting stor...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:00pm -07:00T (731 words)
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