Monthly Archives: April 2017

SUPREME COURT: Imagine if Republicans Had Changed the Rules in 1970

Posted on April 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 8, 1970 – The Senate votes on President Richard Nixon’s nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. A combination of the high-reversal rate (58%) of his decisions on appeal, his support decades earlier of racial segregation and white … Continue reading →

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Propaganda 105: How to Spot a Liar

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Gene Howington

By GENE HOWINGTON “If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 7, 2017

Posted on April 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 7th is Coffee Cake Day National Beer Day * International Beaver Day * International Snailpapers Day * National Walk to Work Day * World Health Organization Day * Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide * … Continue reading →

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another Trump stunt … ‘President Xi, cruise missiles are the best fireworks to herald your arrival’

Posted on April 7, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers After the initial pooch-screwing of the raid in Yemen, Trump ordered a US Middle East military attack of approximately 60 cruise missiles in “retaliation” for Syrian air attacks with chemical weapons. More cynically, it’s a stunt to … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DISINHERITED

Posted on April 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In pursuit of poetic history for National Poetry Month, I’ve dipped into the dusty past to look at a poet who was once an international figure in literary circles, but whose work has dwindled in the … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 6, 2017

Posted on April 6, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 6th is Army Day * Caramel Popcorn Day Twinkie Day * New Beers Eve * National Tartan Day * National Teflon Day * National Student Athlete Day * International Day of Sport for Development and Peace *  _______________________________________________________________ MORE! Julius … Continue reading →

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The Trumpists have now Lucy’d themselves

Posted on April 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Zippy, aside from all that disinformation regarding those verifiable Russian/Wikileaks contacts he’s made (like no one knows about burner phones), is now trying the whatabout game of Tu Quoque. He always has alternative facts, our Roger so … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 5, 2017

Posted on April 5, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 5th is Caramel Day Go For Broke Day * Deep Dish Pizza Day * Read A Road Map Day National Walking Day * National Day of Hope * Star Trek First Contact Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Hobbes, Sybil Ludington and Jagjivan … Continue reading →

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will Trump burn the bamboo curtain of distraction at this week’s China talks

Posted on April 4, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Trump sets himself on collision course with China ahead of Xi meeting https://t.co/36zadCN4vi — The Guardian (@guardian) March 31, 2017 Chinese food in America during the Cold War became stereotypically portrayed for many years in a limited number … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 4, 2017

Posted on April 4, 2017 by wordcloud9

April 4th is Chicken Cordon Bleu Day Vitamin C Day World Rat Day International Day for Mine Awareness & Action National Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Francis Drake, Marguerite Duras and Martin Luther King, click

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