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Three Wise Men: Friday Outrages
1. Nicholas Kristof, on how Republican have been scare-mongering Americans into voting against their own interests for eighty years now. History has proven them wrong, every single time.
2. Perhaps you heard about the “Hand of Frog” that secu...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 7:17am -08:00T (177 words)
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Three Wise Men: Much Ado About Nothing
Inspired by the example of Martin Luther King Jr., Christian culture warriors declare that they will stand together as one in an attempt to suppress the rights of those whose conduct they do not condone:
…45 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 6:02am -08:00T (483 words)
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Three Wise Men: Wherein I take a moment to blog about something trivial…
…against my better judgment. But still, this NY Times article about Elizabeth Lambert, a soccer player for the University of New Mexico, bothers me for several reasons. I ran across the YouTube video of Lambert’s extremely aggressive (that is...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 7:47am -08:00T (856 words)
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Three Wise Men: False Equivalence
This excerpt, from an otherwise okay article about the (literal) Â evolution of religious belief, irkes me:
For atheists, it is not a particularly welcome thought that religion evolved because it conferred essential benefits on early human societies and t...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 9:47am -08:00T (181 words)
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Three Wise Men: Texas Progressive Alliance Round-Up 11/16/09
The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs.
TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backya...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 8:32am -08:00T (268 words)
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Three Wise Men: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to be Tried in U.S. Court
That is, no military commission for he and four of his confederates:
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law ...
Dateline: 2009-11-13 6:16am -08:00T (245 words)
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Three Wise Men: Foreign Policy Notes
A couple of interesting articles worth taking note of. First, this one from Gary Sick, who gives us a much-needed dose of common-sense on Iran’s nuclear program. After noting that for seventeen years, Iran hawks have predicted that in five years Ira...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 4:31pm -08:00T (876 words)
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Three Wise Men: Obama Leaning Towards Small Troop Increase in Afghanistan?
At least, that’s how I read this report:
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over res...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 8:46pm -08:00T (546 words)
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Three Wise Men: Hanna Rosin Has A Problem
I have a problem with Hanna Rosin. My problem is I think she’s a journalist who enjoys tweaking “conventional wisdom” with columns that are poorly researched, that overreach, and don’t make the grand point she wishes them to. The i...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 7:16pm -08:00T (2164 words)
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Three Wise Men: Happy Veterans Day
Today I wish for every one of our soldiers serving overseas a welcome home like this one:
(via John Cole)
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Dateline: 2009-11-11 1:16pm -08:00T (23 words)
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Three Wise Men: Blackwater Bribed Iraqi Officials
Some might’ve wondered how it is Blackwater managed to hang around in Iraq for so long after the Nisour Square shootings in late 2007 that killed seventeen Iraqis. The answer is simple; they bribed Iraqi officials to the tune of a million bucks:
Bla...
Dateline: 2009-11-10 6:31pm -08:00T (920 words)
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Three Wise Men: House (finally) passes health care reform bill
After a long day of fighting over an abortion amendment and a Republican alternative, the House just passed their version of health care reform by a vote of 220-215. 219 Democrats and 1 Republican (Rep. Joseph Cao, whom replaced Bill Jefferson in his New ...
Dateline: 2009-11-07 8:46pm -08:00T (91 words)
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Three Wise Men: Legislative Update XXIX
Congress overwhelmingly passed and President Oabama signed an economic stimulus bill giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits the unemployed.
The Senate rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged ...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 12:47pm -08:00T (118 words)
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Three Wise Men: Election Results
Republicans picked up two gubernatorial seats in New Jersey and Virginia. The GOP and the beltway punditry are heralding this as a “rebuke on President Obama” (though some are looking at Mayor Bloomberg’s surprisingly close re-election...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 10:17am -08:00T (501 words)
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Three Wise Men: Picking Up Steam
Matt Taibi, our very own weapon of mass destruction against the bandits of Goldman Sachs:
Goldman Sachs international adviser Brian Griffiths explains it this way: that Christ’s famous injunction to love others as one would love oneself actually means ...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 10:17am -08:00T (63 words)
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