MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) - In a sign of his increasing prominence in the so-called Tea Party movement, a new poll shows Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul topping former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin among voters who describe themselves a ...
Posted Saturday, May 22nd 2010 at 10:15AM
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Several days after the time Ol’ Mose woke me, the night air in the cabin was stirring once again. In the quiet of the dark I heard pattering feet moving across the dirt floor. I opened my eyes and there he was, heading for the door. I managed to ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:31PM
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I didn’t think much about it until I was lying in bed that night. Mose had me wondering. Why was the old man leaving in the middle of the night anyway? Why would he want to give up his sleep? And how come he was always back before morning? Where ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:30PM
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JUST DAYS AFTER ROARING THROUGH THE REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY, HE PUT HIS PARTY ON THE SPOT—ANNOYING WOULD-BE COLLEAGUES WHO WOKE UP TO DISCOVER THEY HAD TO PLAY DEFENSE ON THE HYPERCHARGED ISSUE OF RACE IN AMERICA.
When Kentucky Republicans cast ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2010 at 9:15AM
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Freedom is a magical word. We never knew freedom by experience but every one of us knew it by feel. The idea of freedom made our spirits soar. The sound of the word sparked a raging, unstoppable fire within us that burned powerfully in young and o ...
Posted Thursday, May 20th 2010 at 12:10PM
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About a week after Eliza passed, all the field hands were returning to the quarters at the end of a long miserable day. Everyone was finishing their chores, dog-tired and hog-hungry, gathering around the fire where they could get something to eat. ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2010 at 10:25AM
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The two children, Randall and Emily, slept with Auntie Bee. Young Randall, about eight or nine, was a wild unruly child, truly a rambunctious pest.
I have never seen one boy get into so much mischief and deviltry. He was the only one who ev ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 3:25PM
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Now Mose, he was an older fellow. His hair and beard were sprinkled gray and white. Mose looked old. He walked old and talked old. It seemed like he was always old, at least since I knew him. Everyone said he had a case of “the slows.” Eve ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 8:22AM
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Are children color blind? What is the attitude of young children to skin color? And how did ti get that way? CNN takes a sobering in depth look. ...
Posted Tuesday, May 18th 2010 at 8:19AM
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It was the middle of the night. Something woke me out of a deep sleep. It was so dark my eyes were useless. But I could still hear. Somebody was moving. There was a gentle sound of bare feet tapping on the dirt floor.
I was half asleep ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:43PM
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Twenty-five slaves lived in three log and daub cabins on our tobacco farm. We had no windows but we didn’t need any. The walls were not solid. There were spaces between the slats that did nothing to keep out cold and rain. I could lie in bed and ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:42PM
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Well, my friends, the time has come
Raise the roof and have some fun
Throw away the work to be done
Let the music play on
Everbody sing, everybody dance
Lose yourself in wild romance
We're going to;
Party, karamu, fiesta, foreve ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 9:15PM
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AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE WHO RUINED OUR OCEANS...
With early plans to contain the spill being dubbed "The Top Hat" or "The Junk Shot," it's easy to imagine that the strategies were coming from the minds of 5-year-olds. Well, according to ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 3:12PM
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ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND (SynergEbooks 2010) tells the improbable story of history’s first successful attempt to fly. According to Josiah Brantley, born a slave in Virginia, it wasn’t the Wright Brothers who did it.
In this fictional first pe ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2010 at 3:01PM
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“It is a strange history. Its truth is stranger than fiction.” Frederick Douglass, 1853
“She used to dream of flying over fields and towns and rivers and mountains, looking down upon them ‘like a bird’”. Harriet Tubman, Franklin Sanborn inter ...
Posted Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 8:55PM
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“ONCE UPON A TIME…”
“I believe that one of the principal ways in which we acquire, hold and digest information is via narrative. So I hope you will understand when the remarks I make begin with what I believe to be the first sentence of our childh ...
Posted Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 8:52PM
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Stephen Colbert loves Glenn Beck. So much that he even bought his cologne, Patriot Tears. And as an avid fan, he couldn't help but notice that the Fox News host gone from calling himself a "Rodeo Clown" (an apt analogy as both "work with bullsh--t") ...
Posted Friday, May 14th 2010 at 10:11AM
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Keith Olbermann did not mince words Thursday night in naming Sarah Palin his "Worst Person in the World."
While speaking outside Chicago this week, Palin mocked Rachel Maddow and MSNBC. Describing a store clerk who found out someone was from Alask ...
Posted Friday, May 14th 2010 at 9:48AM
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SHE WON THE JOB OVER MORE THAN 15 OTHER APPLICANTS—TWO FORMER NFL PLAYERS, POP WARNER COACHES AND A RETIRED ARMY GENERAL. SHE EMPHASIZED ONE THING THOSE MEN DID NOT—HELPING THE PLAYERS IN THE CLASSROOM.
“I HOPE THEY KNOW THAT I REALLY DON’T CA ...
Posted Monday, May 10th 2010 at 7:50AM
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“YOU’RE COMING OF AGE IN A 24/7 MEDIA ENVIRONMENT THAT BOMBARDS US WITH ALL KINDS OF CONTENT AND EXPOSES US TO ALL KINDS OF ARGUMENTS, SOME OF WHICH DON’T RANK ALL THAT HIGH ON THE TRUTH METER. WE CAN’T STOP THESE CHANGES BUT WE CAN ADAPT TO THEM. ...
Posted Monday, May 10th 2010 at 7:47AM
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HOW BASEBALL IS LIKE LIFE.
A famous scene in the comic baseball movie “Major League II” came when fictitious Indians center fielder Willie Mays Hayes — played by Omar Epps — dashes home, where White Sox catcher Jack Parkman — portrayed by David ...
Posted Saturday, May 1st 2010 at 9:45AM
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“If the debate is: ‘I don't like your programs,’ or ‘I don't like the philosophy of the judges you have the right to appoint,’ that's a very different conversation than ‘You are a tyrant subverting the constitution,’ because that's a very emotional, ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 3:07PM
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I’VE BEEN A COP FOR 52 YEARS AND I’M NOT SURE WHAT ‘REASONABLE SUSPICION’ MEANS.”
“My guess is, “ the Sherriff said, “there will be several lawsuits raised and when the courts take a look at this they are going to issue an injunction to bar e ...
Posted Thursday, April 29th 2010 at 8:51AM
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“I’M NOT GOING BACK TO ARIZONA AS LONG AS IT REMAINS A POLICE STATE, WHICH IS WHAT THE APPALLING ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL THAT THE GOVERNOR SIGNED INTO LAW LAST WEEK TURNED INTO.”
by LINDA GREENHOUSE
I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.
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Posted Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:45PM
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