Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States - and so soon after the religious festival of Easter ( Read more... )

New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman was doing his job by checking out rumors that Chuck Hagel, Obama's nomination for secretary of defense, was taking speaking fees from dubious organizations.On Feb. 6, I called a Republican aide on Capitol Hill with a question: Did Hagel’s Senate critics know of controversial groups that he had addressed ( Read more... )

Kate from the lesbian site Autostraddle:Being raised as a woman often feels like a state of subtraction: continually unhinging your parts, and then handing them over to be examined and judged; giving away your most tender pieces to a society that doesn’t love them back, to people you’ve been raised to take care of, take the blame for, keep hanging ( Read more... )

Most of the manuscripts in Timbuktu are safe, thanks in no small part to librarians. The Islamists "damaged or stole only a limited number" of them before fleeing; none of them destroyed an entire library or collection.The manuscripts cover subjects from science, astrology and medicine to history, theology, grammar and geography. They date back to ( Read more... )

Fox News host Eric Bolling on Wednesday accused some schools of “pushing the liberal agenda” for teaching an algebra lesson about the distributive property“...but even worse is the way some textbooks are pushing the liberal agenda,” the Fox News host explained, pointing to an algebra worksheet that Scholastic says gives students “[i]nsight into the ( Read more... )

( Eliminationist rhetoric against people with mental illness, ASDs )

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23 years ago today.The murderer, 25-year-old Marc Lépine, had been denied admission to École Polytechnique in Montreal, and he blamed it on women "taking men's jobs." On December 6, 1989, he burst into an École Polytechnique classroom, Mini-14 rifle in hand, and ordered all the men from the room. Then he screamed, "You're all a bunch of feminists, ( Read more... )

you're either fucking stupid or you're a liar.

John Nichols lays out the facts. And Travis Waldron notes that Hostess asked a bankrupcy judge yesterday to approve a plan that would "pay $1.75 million in bonuses to 19 of its executives" - even as it demonized its unions as the cause of its destruction.

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