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Can You Hear Me Now? [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]From the Houston Chronicle: Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row Friday found a cell phone secreted in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons. They first found two SIM ... |
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More ID Contradictions [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]One of the things we hear constantly from the ID crowd is their silly claim that they don't want ID taught in public schools, only the "arguments for and against evolution" taught (silly, of course, because ID is nothing but a list of arguments against evolution). In fact, they feign mu... |
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Bad News from Obama Camp [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]I've already posted what looked like good news about Obama's future plans on various constitutional issues; now here's some bad news, via Glenn Greenwald: It's just a fact that there are all sorts of people close to Obama who have enabled those Bush policies and who are mobilizing now and atte... |
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Prop 8 Contributors Shocked by Boycotts [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]In the aftermath of the passage of Prop 8 in California, some gay rights groups are calling for boycotts of those businesses that donated money to the campaign to stop same sex marriage in that state. And suddenly, the religious rights is shocked - SHOCKED - at the notion of boycotting a business... |
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Thoughts on MSU's First Game [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]I got to watch MSU's season opener against Idaho in basketball and came away feeling very good about this team. Yeah, it was Idaho and they're terrible. But I really liked what I saw. It was my first chance to see Delvon Roe play and there's no way they're going to be able to keep this guy out of... |
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Cost of Bailout Passes $5 Trillion [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]The $700 billion bailout plan is turning out to be a drop in the bucket compared to the full cost of the government's attempts to rescue the failing financial sector. Forbes reports: For all the fury over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it seems ... |
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