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Edmond Burke's famous maxim that "those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"appears to be a feature not a bug...

headlines we should have seen: Former House of Representative leader Dick "Dick" Armey pulls off $8 million gunpoint stick-up. ...

This is what real Christianity looks and sounds like: People trying to help those who are less fortunate than themselves. As an agnostic Int...

Jack Todd goes end-to-end and puts one right through Gary Bettman's five-hole (which is not anything like as dirty as it sound, get you...

Apparently there are people in America who follow mass shootings the way some people used to follow the Grateful Dead . Another member o...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — As gunshots echoed through an elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, children huddled in the corners and closets whe...

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From the Huffington Post Canada: In the spirit of the holidays, Abbotsford police are sending Christmas cards to gangsters and drug ...

Quote of the day from the Associated Press: In dealing with marijuana, the Seattle Police Department told its 1,300 officers on Wednes...

Every once in a while I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's maxim that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magi...

to make room on the track for the Schadenfreude Express! Since the lawyers and the judge obviously didn't get through to him, let me p...

This is a real column in a real newspaper, not an article from the Onion or some piece of snark from the Daily Show. And the scary part is ...

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Via Tbogg THOMAS JEFFERSON, a denunciation of slavery, 1785 The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of ...

I bought a house! The East Coast got slammed with a hurricane The Excited States got ready to elect a president. Somehow, it is consider...

I bet you thought I'd forgotten about this little project of mine to read 50 books this year . Admittedly, I seem to have fallen behind,...

Jon Stewart at his absolute finest, he practically has steam coming out of his ears. The Democrats should be airing this morning noon and ni...

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