Kevin Ring’s admission of guilt is only one of the tantalizing clues in the 8,000 or so pages of Abramoff documents that were released by Senate’s Indian Affairs Committee (SIAC) in their John McCain led investigation of Jack Abramoff. Did I say investigation, sorry my bad, I meant cover-up. read more | digg story
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Even aside from clear evidence of influence from outside parties, the fact is that the cultural brainwashing of violent video games and psychotropic drugs directly contributed, as it does in all these cases, to the carnage at Virginia Tech on Monday morning. Outside of the obvious culpability of the factors we see in every mass [...]
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Free your email inbox with Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. It appears to be the same as RC1. Check it out… Here read more | digg story
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Clearly, something went terribly wrong. Security experts not connected with Virginia Tech said their immediate questions focused on whether the university had adopted and practiced a plan to handle such dire crises, and whether its system of emergency communications was state-of-the-art. read more | digg story
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A new study by Pew Research confirms what many have always believed: Fox News makes you dumb. Awww shucks! read more | digg story
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One atheist’s clever answer to Pascal’s Wager. The closing paragraph is my favorite part. If God only rewards those who follow the “correct” faith and faith is inherited from one’s parents, then the God who refuses to prove his existence is playing favorites over his creation based on tribal lines pitting groups of humans against [...]
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A study over 30 days of the most popular domains on digg, ranked by both homepage appearances and by total number of diggs. I wish digg would just go public with a lot of the meta-data, or at least do a zeitgeist type thing. read more | digg story
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This is a collection of clippings from major news sources detailing the many times this administration has had problems finding documents. There are also some incidents when the administration said that the docs didn’t exist then it became known that the docs did exist. Show of hands — who thinks this pattern is just a [...]
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As one of America’s foremost social satirists, Black caught the American public’s attention on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Here’s a sample about the Enron scandal: “You don’t want another Enron? Here’s the law: If you have a company, and you can’t explain, in one sentence, what the fuck it does, it’s [...]
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In an interview with a Turkish journalist, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz brags of his upcoming attendance of the 2007 Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul Turkey, while the journalist who is also set to be an an attendee refers to the elitist confab as a “covert world government.” Bilderberg claims it does not set policy [...]
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