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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Play politely.
They were “just playing” with the weapons when one of them went off, Roberts said.
“The person that shot him says it was an accident,” he added, though he didn’t clarify who is believed to be the shooter.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, a news report misplets “negligently.”
“My Way or the Highway” 0
Trudy Rubin analyzes Donald Trump’s case of “autocrat envy.”
Immunity Impunity
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Warning: Language.
“The Right To Be Stupid” 0
Watch the Republican spin wildly as he attempts to blame the victim.
Via Raw Story, which provides detail and a summary.
Facebook Frolics, Phoning Home Dept. 0
Pap and Farron discuss how Facebook has “scraped” phone calls and contacts using its Android app.
All the News that Fits 0
Ralph Peters, ex-Fox News commentator, has more. Here’s a bit:
This wasn’t a case of the rats leaving a sinking ship. The best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article207476394.html#storylink=cpy
Image via Job’s Anger.
Everything You Know Is Wrong 0
In the Raleigh News and Observer, Frank Hyman wonders why U. S. southern history is taught so incompetently. A snippet:
Why aren’t students learning that North Carolina voters (white males over 21 in those days) opposed secession? The slave-owners in the General Assembly overruled them and launched us into a war not wholly supported by most Tarheels.
The answer to his question is quite simple.
The South may have lost the war, but it won the peace. From the end of Reconstruction on, southern racists conducted their own reconstruction, reconstructing history to justify racism, oppression, and theft of labor.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
Detroit’s WDIV 4 reported Friday that attacker John Deliz, a recently-discharged patient, came up to the 19-year-old woman wearing hijab while she was checking in to see if she had broken her jaw when falling on ice earlier in the day on February 20.
The American Dream ix now the American nightmare.