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Erosion at New York's Hart Island graveyard unearths human bones
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8 years ago
NEW YORK -- Hart Island, a massive burial ground near the Bronx borough of New York City, is eroding, unearthing human bones along the shoreline, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports ....
No Trump-era fiction has been more profoundly internalized and repeated within the closed conservative information system than the fiction that Trump is the victim of a plot by the FBI.
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8 years ago
www.theatlantic.com Trump’s Attacks on Comey Collide With Reality David Frum Samuel Johnson once stood talking with James Boswell about a theory expressed by a certain Bishop...
Byron York: Is Comey telling the truth about his memos?
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8 years ago
April 26, 2018 As he presses on with his bookselling tour, fired FBI Director James Comey is leaving a trail of confusing statements about how he handled the memos he wrote after conversations...
UC Berkeley must face lawsuit alleging bias against conservative speakers
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8 years ago
(Reuters) - A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter by imposing...
Facebook post linked to Toronto van attack points to insular, misogynistic world of 'incels'
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8 years ago
The deadly van attack in Toronto is shining a spotlight on the controversial, often misogynistic world of "incels." The term incel is short for "involuntarily celibate," and the community...
Broward deputies union votes 'no confidence' in Sheriff Israel
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Source A union of deputies in Florida on Thursday announced it has "no confidence" in Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. The Broward Sheriff's Office Deputies Association said a symbolic...
The Second Amendment : A Sacred Covenant of Ethnic Cleansing
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The Second Amendment : A Sacred Covenant of Ethnic Cleansing and Slavery Between the Nation State and Settler Militias Written by Christine Nobiss There is a myth that has infiltrated...
The Double Standards of the Mueller investigation
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8 years ago
The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck. In one direction, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald...
Anti-Israel Activists Disrupt Talk by Israeli Ambassador at Syracuse University
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8 years ago
Anti-Israel Activists Disrupt Talk by Israeli Ambassador at Syracuse University So much for academic freedom and open discourse. Anti-Israel activists attempted to silence Israel’s consul...
'Cry closet' installed at university for students who need some alone time
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8 years ago
A university has installed a 'cry closet' for students who need somewhere to be private and sad. The small box popped up in the campus library at the University of Utah in the US. It allows...
Joy Reid Doubles Down: Homophobic Posts ‘Hacked,’ ‘Fraudulent’
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8 years ago
MSNBC’s Joy Reid is standing by her claim that her now-defunct blog was the target of a cyberattack in which homophobic content was added to the site. A cybersecurity expert working with...
Texas man sentenced to 50 years for $1.2M theft of fajitas
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8 years ago
A Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over nine years. Fifty-three-year-old Gilberto Escamilla was sentenced Friday after...
Woman Takes Out Her Own Breast Implants Using a Box Cutter
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8 years ago
A mother-of-three from the UK reportedly performed the world’s first DIY breast implant removal at home, because she couldn’t stand her F-cup breasts anymore and wouldn’t get on the health...
CBO forecast leaves no room for wishful thinking
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The Congressional Budget Office’s latest forecast makes a convincing case that fiscal complacency is now dangerous for the U.S. economy. CBO projects the federal government will borrow an...
The Decline of American Exceptionalism
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8 years ago
Two worldviews are fighting to claim the identity of America in the 21st century. One is centered upon Judeo-Christian morality and encompasses discipline, virtue, courage, and the dignity of...
‘Christian Nationalism’ Played Significant Role in 2016 U.S. Elections
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8 years ago
Conservative Christianity played a far greater role in getting Donald Trump elected to the White House than other factors commonly put forward, says a report in the journal Sociology of...
President Trump Orders High Honor for Barbara Bush After Her Death – ‘As a Mark of Respect’
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This is what class looks like. When she died on Tuesday, former first lady Barbara Bush was the matriarch of one of the most powerful political dynasties the country has ever seen, and one that...
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