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1. WHISTLING PAST GRAVEYARDS
Why Douglas Adams Encouraged Galactic Hitchhiking
The truth is out there; even if you are at the beach, don't put your head in the sand.
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2. HELTER SKELTER: CHARLESTON
No, It's Not Some TV Spinoff, But The Oldest 'News'
The rebuilding engineer in 'The Stand' asked: 'Haven't we done this before?'
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3. TIRE I AS...
Or an Olympian tale, retold
Let it never be said of the Greeks, be they of our time or the ancient variety, that they are dull.
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4. FREUD, OPIUM AND US
Stop me if you've heard this one
A take on an old Greek problem: We have met the enemy, and it's US.
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5. VEXATION TO THE NATIONS
Melville Was Wrong: Ishmael's the D*ck
Indeed, it is a supervirus, able to reproduce itself by 'lying' with its parakeet. Ahem.
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6. DEATH CULT
Where is the mass condemnation, one might fairly ask.
If death as "martyrs" is what Islamists desire, we should oblige them the greatest extent possible
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7. POLITICO OBSERVATIONS 4
Palin Slams, Pelosi Warns, Obama Bores
A little girl told Obama she'd rather see Beyonce
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8. HERE WE GO AGAIN
We just can't resist an excuse for war.
Humanitarian intervention is often a contradiction in terms
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9. AMERICAN SUICIDE: PACKED
(Un)happiness is a warm gun
Hair-brained owners of hair-trigger paranoia enough to compete with Mad Max Gibson in Israel.
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10. THE ISIS THREAT
We Cannot Afford To Ignore.
President Obama may have declared the War On Terror to be over, but the terrorists have other plans.
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11. DECLINE OF CHRISTENDOM
Civilization
Such people have forgotten the lesson of 9/11--the world can and will visit us.
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12. LET CHIVALRY DIE
The sexism's just too heavy.
Men certainly can't be expected to think about women as individuals
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13. HOT UNDER OUR FEET
The fire of Islamic extremism
Sixty percent of Pakistanis live below the poverty line, which is defined as $2 a day.
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14. ALIM SEYTOFF
Uyghur American Association
Promoting the preservation and flourishing of a rich, humanistic and diverse Uyghur culture.
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15. COPELAND ON SAVING SYRIA
Video: Do we have the right bad guys?
Miles accepts no responsibility for the ineffectiveness of that army in subsequent years...
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16. DEAR FANATIC,
God doesn't need your help.
No one, no priest, imam, rabbi or lama, has the right to silence others for what they say
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17. THE SOCIALIST IN YOU
Even Smart People get Dumb with Socialism
A free society can only exist through voluntary association...
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18. CHINESE TOURISTS IN ITALY
Chinese on tour, Chinese in bondage in Tuscany, Italy
And a memorandum for Milton Friedman burning in the fiery fires of Hell
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19. HOORAY FOR SUFFERING!
Some pundits are happiest when America's miserable.
I freely agree that when peace and prosperity abound, people get frivolous
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20. ITALIAN PM OUSTED BY ME!
How I coaxed the Ouster of Silvio Berlusconi
We are not prone to learn from the Past...
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