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From beyond the grave: A prophetic warning of Chechen repression - “A report by Natalya Estemirova, the Russian activist murdered in Chechnya as she investigated human rights abuses.” (07/16/09)1 hour ago
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VIDEO: Dave Kopel and Ilya Somin testify on the Sotomayor nomination…. - VIDEO: Dave Kopel and Ilya Somin testify on the Sotomayor nomination.1 hour ago
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Hip Hop Live: Week Ending 7/23/09 - This week, it's Young Jeezy, Devin the Dude and K'naan. Also, Guru and Solar Tour dates!1 hour ago
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The iPod Shuffle: Black Rob’s “I Love You Baby” - I think we’ll start letting the iPod shuffle (working title) to see what songs make appearances. Today’s featured song, Black Rob’s “I Love You Baby.” And ...1 hour ago
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One-2 - I’m Gunnin’ (prod. Komplex) - One-2 & Komplex link up for yet another heater. You should get use to hearing these two together as Kompo will be lacing One-2’s upcoming EP in it’s entire...2 hours ago
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The Problems With Materialism - *Hi my name's Bob and I'm a recovering materialist. I'd like to thank my sponsor Gene, who talked me down from the ledge a few years ago...* Over at Crash ...2 hours ago
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Paul Wall Shoots Music Video with an iPhone. Wait, What? - Either Swishahouse declined Paul Wall’s request for a video budget or Paul was just looking for ways to save cost in a recession. Whatever the case, my goo...2 hours ago
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Young Buck Breaks Silence On G-Unit, "50 Ain't Spoke & Banks Ain't Called" - Former G-Unit member Young Buck has released a new song called "Pullin Me Back" which discusses his falling out with 50 Cent and the Aftermath/Shady Record...2 hours ago
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C Street on the Skidz - You remember the C Street Group, the combo Bible fellowship and group home for members of Congress up on Capitol Hill. But it's been occurring to us that t...2 hours ago
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The Worst Solution to the Financial Crisis, by Arnold Kling - Daniel Indiviglio reports on a chart from the *Wall Street Journal* that shows more than one quarter of mortgage loan modifications are redefaulting. He ...2 hours ago
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SecDef Bob Gates Justifies Weapons Cuts - by DAVID AXE In a speech this week in Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put into perspective his battle to cancel or curtail under-performing weap...2 hours ago
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Why Should We Have Polls? - Conor Clarke has kindly replied to my earlier rebuttal to his proposal to “get rid of polls”: A few days ago John Sides published a reasonably sn...2 hours ago
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Executive Brunch - VP Biden to sit in on the president's morning meetings Friday in DC, join him for midday meal. Obama has no public events scheduled for the day.2 hours ago
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My Testimony on Property Rights at the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings: - As many of our readers know, I testified at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, on the subject of pr...2 hours ago
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Cormega Rhyming On WKCR / 1997 - I’ve heard this on different sites through the years but I like how my tape sounds. Unrelated, I made this mix a few years back of my favorite slower and m...2 hours ago
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Why Are People Waiting to Marry and Have Kids?, Ctd - by Patrick Appel A reader writes: First off, let me say that I was shocked to learn that Ben Domenech is my age (27), and from what little I can tell, he i...3 hours ago
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Obama Tells Fellow Blacks--'No Excuses For Failure' - That's the *New York Times* headline on Obama's speech to the NAACP. I don't even know what to say anymore. I haven't heard Obama's speech. But I've seen t...3 hours ago
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An interview with Fatima Bhutto - By Hootsbuddy Guernica is a magazine of art and ideas that author Howard Zinn called "an extraordinary bouquet of stories, poems, social commentary, and art....3 hours ago
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M. Butterfly’s Uighur Son - I’m sure most reasonably educated people are aware of Puccini’s masterwork Madame Butterfly. What’s so extraordinary about the work is it played itself out...4 hours ago
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DAVID T. BEITO: Grilling of the Inspector of the Federal Reserve (Spectacular Illustration of "Governmental Failure") - If you have any friends who have faith in the comparative competence of the federal government over the free market, show them this:4 hours ago
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Troglodyte chic - [U]nlike Meghan [McCain], Jamie [Kirchick] is attractive. This I state as a journalist describing an objective fact since, as a married father of six, my...4 hours ago
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Best GPS Device? [Hive Five Call For Contenders] - GPS Devices are the sextants of the modern age, allowing us to pinpoint our locations with accuracy and navigate without fear of getting lost. Photo by Nor...4 hours ago
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Quote of the Day - "We're going to do that crack cocaine thing." -- Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), to a witness at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.5 hours ago
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SOTOMAYOR WRAP UP, DAY 4: SECURING A WORLDVIEW. - The Republicans on the committee all but conceded today that *Sonia Sotomayor* would be confirmed. Even *Jeff Sessions*, who has been Sotomayor's leading...5 hours ago
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When to let a bank fail (by Russell Roberts) - More often than not would be a start. My full answer, here.5 hours ago
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Kim Jong Il, the documentary - Coming on the heels of Kim Jong Il's public appearance in Pyongyang last week and subsequent reports that he is suffering from pancreatic cancer -- both ...5 hours ago
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JASON WHITLOCK OP-ED: This Is Why Athletes Should Never Marry - The sports columnist argues that the Steve McNair and Arturo Gatti tragedies should show athletes how deadly serious marriage is. Sports figures should jus...5 hours ago
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Jack White’s Dead Weather Blast Through Noon Set at NYC Gallery - A downtown New York gallery transformed into a pop-up record store today and hosted an intimate but ferocious gig by Jack White’s latest band, the Dead Wea...5 hours ago
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Mase Boycot! - I don't even like Star & Buc but I'm riding with them on this. I couldn't believe my eyes/ears when I heard that new Killa & Ma$3 track. Please don't let t...5 hours ago
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Video: Miike Snow, “Burial” + MP3 - Two-thirds Swedish, one-third New Yorker band Miike Snow’s “Burial” begins just like that part of the theme song to The Hills where she’s like “Staring at ...5 hours ago
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New music from Willie Isz. - MC Jneiro Jarel (Shape of Broad Minds) and Goodie Mob frontman Khujo make make up Willie Isz. The experimental hip hop project was first leaked back on hip...6 hours ago
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'Whip It' trailer: Ellen Page + roller derby = Drew Barrymore's directorial debut - Who knows if Whip It -- Drew Barrymore's look at the empowering world of female roller derby starring Juno's Ellen Page -- will be consistently funny or ju...6 hours ago
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Gates: Future Jet Supporters are Risking Today’s Troops - At a speech today in Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lashed out at members of Congress, at the “defense and aerospace industry,” and at the “ins...6 hours ago
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Endgame - Hopefully no embarrassing typos in today’s edition: — The truth about rich people’s taxes. — Rupert Murdoch seems to be writing the headlines at the WSJ th...6 hours ago
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The Indecision '09/'10 Political Porkcake Calendar: March - Michele Bachmann - Don't let you're pistol go off too soon. Know what I'm saying? Click here for larger image. See also: More »Powered by Bookmarkify™6 hours ago
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Credit where credit’s due - In my recent post on Rothbard’s position on children’s rights, I lodged a pretty broad complaint against paleolibertarian writing on the family, paternal a...6 hours ago
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Slight Correction to My DC Per Pupil Spending Figure - In my IBD piece today I gave total per pupil spending in DC as $29,000 per pupil. That was based on an official k-12 audited enrollment count of 44,681, wh...7 hours ago
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Blogosphere Star Provides Refreshingly Alternative Ideas - Who’s that man in blue? None other than the Independent Institute’s Research Director, Alex Tabarrok, gracing today’s Wall Street Journal’s “Personal Journ...7 hours ago
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30. “Mercantilism, Corporations, and Liberty: The Fallacies of ‘Lochnerian’ Antitrust” - by James Rolph Edwards Abstract: Progressive legal theorist Daniel Crane has argued that libertarians who believe that monopoly results from government int...7 hours ago
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Death by influenza epidemic. - The artist Egon Schiele and his 6-month pregnant wife died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Egon, who was only 28 at the time, passed away on All Hallow's E...7 hours ago
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School Competition Begets Greater Quality - By Art Carden, Mike Hammock; The June 24 edition of The Commercial Appeal reported that Shelby County Schools Superintendent Bobby Webb, who retired the fo...7 hours ago
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What the FWSAR? Canada Confuses - Canada appears to have kicked off the long-delayed program to replace its venerable CC-115 Buffalo search-and-rescue aircraft. The Department of National...7 hours ago
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A Big Setback for Health Reform? - Read this quote, from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf, testifying before the Senate Budget Committee. You are going to hear it repea...7 hours ago
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Was Obama's Russia Trip a Success? - While the mainstream media have hailed the advances in U.S.-Russian relations supposedly achieved on Barack Obama's trip to Moscow, some conservative comme...7 hours ago
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Health care or deficit reduction - You can only tax the rich so much ONE thing I like about the House's health-care proposal is that members actually tried to pay for the expansion of cove...8 hours ago
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TechBytes 6.28: Who Will Control the Controller? - Should the federal government have the power to monitor and control Internet traffic to make sure that our critical cyber-infrastructure is not harmed? Ne...8 hours ago
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The Long-Term Budget Outlook - Today I had the opportunity to testify before the Senate Budget Committee about CBO’s most recent analysis of the long-term budget outlook. Under current l...8 hours ago
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Audio: DeMint, Meese Townhall on Sotomayor Hearings - *Click here to view the embedded video.*8 hours ago
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Lies, Intimidation and Bank of America - Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson testified today about his controversial role in the mammoth Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger, and he took quite a ...8 hours ago
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Politics, Explained In A Sentence - Blue Dog Democrats complain about the size of the House health care bill. Then they demand that hospitals IN THEIR districts be more adequately funded.8 hours ago
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CBO: No Cost Savings From Obamacare - The Congressional Budget Office had some bad news for the Obama Administration: One of the main arguments made by the President and others for investing ...8 hours ago
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Quoted: Christopher Jackson on what it's like at a black high school - Someone in the comments section today posted a link to this essay by a guy named Christopher Jackson about what he observed as a teacher at a predominantly...8 hours ago
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Is cybersecurity a private or public problem? - Evgeny Morozov has an op-ed in the New York Times today that makes the case that cyberattacks are not an existential threat to the country or anything even...9 hours ago
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Lessons in Universal Health Insurance Models - As the United States looks to reform its health care system and expand access to the uninsured, countries that have moved toward universal health care ma...9 hours ago
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On The Record: Dengue Fever - Ethan Holtzman - --> On the Record is a video series where rockstars gush about their favorite records -- in exactly 45 seconds. Radio Dance Floor was released on July 14th, ...9 hours ago
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'09 Fun Fun Fun Fest Lineup update - *the GZA and friends* We've just been made aware of a few more lineup leaks for Austin's 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest : hip-hop legend *GZA* of the Wu-Tang Clan,...9 hours ago
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Anti-War in the UK - After a bad few weeks for British troops in Afghanistan–15 dead already this month–the anti-war movement in the UK seems to be gathering momentum. The Stop...10 hours ago
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88 Keys: The Friends Zone Music Video - 88 Keys: The Friends Zone Does every rapper really want to be a singer? Off The Death Of Adam. Available on iTunes: 88 Keys: The Friends Zone10 hours ago
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Healthcare Dreams, Healthcare Realities - President Obama is not the first chief executive to discover that it was much easier to promise grand dreams on the campaign trail than to reconcile them w...10 hours ago
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For Sale: One Kidney? - *Virginia Postrel* examines the kidney donation system in the United States, where 11 people die every day waiting for a kidney transplant. Exchanging orga...10 hours ago
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Sotomayor’s First Big Case May Be on the Right to Confront Expert Witnesses - A few weks ago, I posted on the Supreme Court’s decision in the Melendez-Diaz case, in which the Court found that the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation claus...10 hours ago
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Stimulus Works in China - China released figures showing that its GDP grew at a 7.9 percent annual rate in the second quarter. It's growth is projected to accelerate further in the ...10 hours ago
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10 Most Profitable Drugs - We often hear that antidepressants, cholesterol medicines, blood pressure drugs and countless other prescription medications are widely used in the U.S. Ho...10 hours ago
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Massachusetts in Suit Over Cost of Universal Care - Expressions of health care opposition are on the rise since President Obama urged Congress to pass health care reform. The Heartland Institute found this t...11 hours ago
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Film: Afghan Star - In 2001, after Taliban-era bans on secular entertainment were lifted, an Afghan TV network launched an *American Idol*-style singing contest. Through an ...11 hours ago
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CNN Apparently Doesn’t Find Madonna All That Sympathetic Of A Figure - [image: flipyou]Of all the pictures on all the photo wires out there, CNN picks the one image of Madonna where she's flipping the double-barreled bird in o...11 hours ago
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SDSU Retirement - My love for Hip Hop is not dead. However, life has taken me in different directions professionally and lead me to effectively retire from Hip Hop blogging....11 hours ago
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The Thirty-Thousand Feet Level - Chuck Todd is a straight up moron. I mean, look, if I could have occupied Chuck Todd's grotesque pinnipedal FlavrSavr form at any point during that intervi...12 hours ago
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BRING YOUR OWN BEAR ONE… - North Philly keeps it realer than most other cities. Back in June when I was ripping around Philadelphia I spent a few hours in the back studio of the lege...12 hours ago
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Grassroots Effort Needed to Stop PASS Act - By Gary Biller, NMA Executive Director The failed Real ID Act of 2005 would have instituted a national ID system. The U.S. Senate is currently taking up a ...12 hours ago
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College vs. Babies - Conor Friedersdorf finds serial plagiarist Ben Domenech stroking his chin over the pernicious collapse of values that’s causing moderns to delay marriage a...12 hours ago
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Throwback music: Big Daddy Volume 3: The Showstopper - [image: Image Hosted by ImageShack.us] Another promo sampler from excellent-but-defunct (?) UK hip hop magazine, *Big Daddy* including tracks featuring *Th...12 hours ago
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MythBusting with Adam Savage! - At the Las Vegas-based Amazing Meeting, *Reason* magazine's Matt Welch recently sat down with Adam Savage, co-host of the enormously popular and captivat...12 hours ago
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F-22 Vote Update - Our sources now tell us that the vote on the Levin-McCain amendment--which would strip funding for additional F-22s from the National Defense Authorization...13 hours ago
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Australian Government Survey on Parents' Ease of Managing Media Use - An interesting new survey has just been released by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which is the rough equivalent of the Federal Co...13 hours ago
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Sold Tapes Everyday Me and Freddy B - (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) So, sex raps aren’t the only thing that was fibbed a bit in $horts rhymes. 2 words=public transi...13 hours ago
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Sold Tapes Everyday Me and Freddy B - (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) So, sex raps aren’t the only thing that was fibbed a bit in $horts rhymes. 2 words=public transi...13 hours ago
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Social Security Dances Away With the Taxpayers’ Money - During the week of July 6, the Social Security Administration held a conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, a location so luxurious it is called “the...14 hours ago
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Energy Journal Roundup: July 2009 - *Feature Article* Raukas, A., Punning, J., 2009, Environmental Problems in the Estonian oil shale industry, Volume 2, 2009, page 723 – 728 *The Energy ...14 hours ago
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John Campbell: IBD Editorial: It's Not An Option - I ran across this editorial from Investor's Business Daily this morning, and I wanted to share it with you. Comments welcome. Congress: It didn't take long...15 hours ago
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Montreal Find: DJ Skratch Bastid - In every new city that I travel to, I try to find a new artist in town that exemplifies their fair city. During my trip to Montreal I stumbled upon one suc...15 hours ago
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Solid-State Laser Ready For On-Board Tests - This article first appeared in AviationWeek.com. A U.S. Navy plan to test a high-power laser against the small-boat threat to its warships provides the fir...15 hours ago
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GOP Strategists Seek to Alter the Health Care Reform Debate - By Stuart Rothenberg While Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tries to work with key GOP committee members to fashion a bipartisan health care bi...15 hours ago
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10 U.S. food policy destinations - For people who want to know where their food comes from, Google Maps offers a profound passport to the landscape you choose to view, in place of the pastor...16 hours ago
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PM hears case for Impact Assessment of drug laws - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has held an important meeting with drugs policy campaigning group Transform, and Lembit Öpik, Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomer...16 hours ago
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Buzz Aldrin the hip hop star - This is just thoroughly entertaining. One of the few things on Funnyordie.com that is actually worth watching. Mainly because of Kweli. Making of Buzz Al...17 hours ago
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D.C. - Hey everyone. Just dropping a line to say we're alive and well and living with Belle's mom, in D.C. For a couple more days. How's by you?18 hours ago
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Forces Fags - [image: Fag]A wee story for you from the USA. The Pentagon reassured troops on Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Meanwhile UK Na...19 hours ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - “It is often wrongly assumed that the free market is always on the side of life’s heavy hitters. But sport gives plenty of examples that it is the mark...20 hours ago
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Confirming Sotomayor - Watching the two days of quasi-questions and pseudo-answers I formed conflicting impressions of the Sotomayor confirmation hearing. First of course is th...23 hours ago
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Cut the crap already - Someone please explain to me why I even bother glancing at the Sotomayor hearings. For the most part it’s been one side kissing ass while the other side i...1 day ago
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Bill O'Reilly: Individuals Pay Corporate Income Tax Too - Last night, Bill O'Reilly attacked Goldman Sachs for apparently standing to gain from the proposed cap-and-trade program. He claims that Goldman Sachs pa...1 day ago
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Ensign to Run Again in '12; GOP Foes Lining Up Against Kosmas; MN GOP Guv Race Get More Crowded; Cuomo Outraises Paterson; IL Green Makes Second Guv Run; Newsom-Brown Guv Primary Update. - NEVADA. Embattled US Senator John Ensign (R) announced this week that that he will seek re-election in 2012. Ensign recently admitted to an affair with a f...1 day ago
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How To Win Progressive Friends and Influence Them - Mike Lux, a blogger at the Huffington Post and author of The Progressive Revolution, recently took offense to our Independence Day festivities. Though we o...1 day ago
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Daily Twitter Digest — 2009-07-15 - One more time: The "ability to keep your current doctor & your current coverage" assumes that "reform" doesn't drive them out of the system. # If you've re...1 day ago
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DJ Camilo - DJ CAMILO - HIP HOP 21 No Track List Download DJ Camilo Thanx to Mix Tape Game1 day ago
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Is porn good for America? Seems so. - Porn is good for America, good for women and a lot more fun than church. Okay, I overstate my case, but just slightly. The Internet has brought about an ex...1 day ago
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I’m Rad - Stressmatic of The Federation rapping with bmx kids! I support both of these groups1 day ago
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El Arte De Tocar El Amazon - from Raquel Rivera to wayne marshall, Deborah Pacini Hernandez date Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM subject riddle me this Hi dear compis. I still don’t quit...1 day ago
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Nabucco Back From the Grave? And the Missed Opportunity - After seven years, we finally have the intergovernmental agreement in place that permits construction of the Nabucco line to move forward. But there are ma...1 day ago
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This Just In… - From the Wall Street Journal: More than 175 prominent economists are warning that "the independence of U.S. monetary policy is at risk" because of attacks ...1 day ago
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Barriers to Archival Access Stymie Historical Research - Notwithstanding official proclamations of a new era of transparency, public access to declassified historical records continues to be obstructed by procedu...1 day ago
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Their Conduct Has No Place in a Civil Society - Alex R. Knight III on critics of Ed and Elaine Brown.1 day ago
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Musical Education - She’s a braver woman than I: Carrie Brownstein is attempting to become a Phish fan – or at least give their music a fair shot – over the next week or two. ...1 day ago
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Democracy in action. - Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken Creatures of the state will generally argue that in these c...1 day ago
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How I Use Mint.com To Benefit My Personal Finances - I have written a few articles in the past about Mint.com and how I think it is the best personal finance web application on the internet. In my opinion, it...1 day ago
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IMF Imposes New Conditions On Latvia - by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Izabella Kaminska at FT Alphaville has the story (via Reuters): The International Monetary Fund has put forward new, difficult co...1 day ago
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The G-8 Countries Climate Agreement: A Lot for A Little - At the G8 summit held in L’Aquila Italy last week, the G8 nations came up with a climate master plan aimed at keeping the total rise in global temperatures...1 day ago
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David Axelrod & Rakim | Sample & Example - Though it's only been viral for a few hours, everything that was needed to be said about this song has been said already. Now it's my job to do some diggi...2 days ago
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Add it up - I was listening to a local, very mainstream news broadcast last night, and the report was that, while Oregon's unemployment rate was 12.2%, well above the ...2 days ago
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The Day Has Come, I Guess - Like murder, there is no statute of limitations on sampling. That's why Lonnie Lynn can be sued today for using the music of songwriters Andrew Andrew Mar...2 days ago
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Shorter Sessions vs. Sotomayor - After watching Jeff Sessions today, I'm pretty sure his approach to questioning Sonia Sotomayor was modeled after Steve Carell in this scene. (Note: I don'...2 days ago
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Music The Shaped My Life. Gigolo Tony - Hey ma! from now on I want you to call me Gigolo Tony.....what does Gigolo mean anyway? - me at 12(or so) If you are in your early 30's and from Alabama, ...2 days ago
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Back in the Day... - Regarding this post by Delaware Libertarian, noting the frequency of attacks against libertarianism over at Kos. Well, what can you say; gone indeed are ...2 days ago
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Obama losing support over economic policies - Business Times - 14 Jul 2009 Obama losing support over economic policies His popularity is falling even among independents and voters who helped him wi...3 days ago
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Where I’ve Been, Where I’m At, Where I’m Going… - So what the hell has happened to FDB in 2009? Well, as I’ve commented on several times one of the major changes in my life this year has been the purchase ...3 days ago
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A question… - This is really bugging me. I just got asked this question from someone who I probably told this to, as I have relayed this anecdote on several occasions. I...3 days ago
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SASHA FRERE-JONES ON SUMMER SONGS - A podcast with Sasha Frere-Jones: Online Only: The New Yorker3 days ago
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Stretch & Bobbito 8-20-1998 - Here's some more Stretch & Bobbito goodness courtesy of *Relm*, a *Stretch Armstrong Show* dated August 20, 1998. This one is jam packed with guests and...3 days ago
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JibJab Presents: He's Barack Obama - Its a bird! Its a plane! No, he's Barack Obama and hes come to save the day! JibJab puts the rock in Barack with a new, over-the-top satire that debuted in...4 days ago
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Remix Contest: Heart & Soul of NYC - Red does his thing on this one, but couldn't Pete have dialed up Nas to make this a gold classic? Imagine God's Son spitting that mellow flow inbetween the...5 days ago
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Weekend Ride Out - Best of both worlds. A few joints for the weekend: - Jay-Z, "Song Cry" (over Dilla's "Coming Back") For months, I've been yearning for a credible MC to us...6 days ago
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Alex Billet on Michael Jackson - We have to apologize for leaving this blog idle for longer than two weeks. We're in the middle of a move and have had to place blogging on the back burner ...1 week ago
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Mad, Mad, Mad - Back in the 90's, when certain Hip Hop lingo was used, it got used a lot, take for instance Flavo(u)r, or Fat (Phat) or Def or Ill, but one word that is...1 week ago
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Cudi is a good dude - This dude cracks me up! Big ups to Mr. Cudder Related posts:KiD CuDi - Day ‘N’ Nite (video) This video is much better. Shouts to OS ...Kid Cudi On Karmaloo...1 week ago
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An Interview with Richard Lee on the Tax Cannabis 2010 California Ballot Initiative - The proposed Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis 2010 initiative for the 2010 California ballot has already received a significant level of press coverage. He...1 week ago
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“The Ghosts of Those Unlived Lives” - Robert McNamara’s death reminded me of one of my favorite editorials ever, from the New York Times a decade and a half back. The occasion was McNamara’s re...1 week ago
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Gallup on Ideology - Cross-posted from Epic Journey: New Gallup data suggest that it is an oversimplification to speak of a rightward or leftward shift in public opinion: Desp...1 week ago
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Palin 2012: Somewhat Less Godawfulness You Can Believe In - I’m actually a little sad to see Sarah Palin go. I was no fan, but of the four candidates and running mates during the election- McCain, Palin, Obama, Bide...1 week ago
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A "Ten-Sigma" Econo-Historical Event - Defying odds that dictate a likelihood of 1 occurence in every 1 billion universes, Japan has officially become the only country in the whole world in all ...1 week ago
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An Extraordinary Story - On one of the Usenet groups I sometimes read, someone posted an account of her life as child and parent that I found both impressive and moving. Hereit is.1 week ago
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Dailly Mathemathics Has Moved! - Update yer Bookmarks & RSS!! You should be automatically redirected in 5 seconds.... If you're not redirected, go to www.daily-math.com or click on the phot...1 week ago
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HumanityCritic's DJ Premier Barbecue Playlist - If I'm reminded of one thing on this holiday weekend, it's how my selfishness and fundamental laziness prohibits me from standing by my principles. I ful...1 week ago
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New York High Court to Consider Atlantic Yards Suit - More news on the story below. From Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s press release: BROOKLYN, NY— The New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in ...2 weeks ago
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Nerdy Economist Music Video - Columbia Business School's Dean Glenn Hubbard sings about wanting Alan Greenspan's job that went instead to New Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. Parody created by C...2 weeks ago
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A Prayer For Michael Jackson - "There's a metaphor somewhere in this photo." I was born on July 24, 1983 and if we backtrack nine months (and if my math holds which is definitely suspec...2 weeks ago
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Nothing to see here. Have some links! - Hi, maybe you followed an old link here or some such. I closed this blog down a couple years ago. It was the best. Here's what I'm doing instead: My web d...2 weeks ago
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Privatize the Post Office - Another day, another story on financial troubles at the federal government’s mail monopolist. We don’t expect the government to make our blue jeans, tra...3 weeks ago
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I’ve moved on down the road for a spell - As I’m now writing about local, state and national issues over at Examiner.com, I’m not keeping up with this site at the time. Feel free to follow me at th...3 weeks ago
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Clarification: I Have Not Become A Natalist - My post: Like Hanna and Meghan, I read Sandra Tsing Loh as arguing that companionate marriage involves trade-offs; that for all we gain in trading hierarch...3 weeks ago
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Liz has a bad day at the office - This is priceless. Apparently, Elizabeth Becton, office manager and scheduler for Congressman Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington state, has a defi...4 weeks ago
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Taxpayer Activists Meet in Washington - I was one of some 300 tax activists from around the country attending the recent taxpayer conference held in Washington last weekend June 11-13, 2009. The ...4 weeks ago
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Scratch - �Old School Beat Box Mix� - I have to say, I was thoroughly impressed by the quality of this new old school beat box mix that my mans and �em, Scratch, just put together. Fun and mad ...4 weeks ago
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Cubana Lust sextape (Watch) - [image: Cubana Lust Sextape]I couldn't believe it either, but apparently model Cubana Lust is getting into the sextape biz. I got the entire video that was...5 weeks ago
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Rearrangement of Migration Flows - The WSJ has a very interesting article: The Great U-Turn: The developed world, which for decades has offered a difficult but promising path to upward mobilit...5 weeks ago
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Other things watched by Fidel Castro on Tuesday - Fidel Castro told Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Wednesday afternoon that he watched President Barack Obama’s inauguration on TV a d...5 weeks ago
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Top Executive Profiles - Pamela H. Cloud - Ms. Cloud joined Tiffany in 1994 as an Assistant Buyer and has since advanced through positions of increasing management responsibility within the Merchand...1 month ago
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Recession Buster: Art IS Free! - I’ve got some audible treats for you for free just in case you missed Del The Funky Homosapien’s April 7th release, Funk Man (The Stimulus Package). Whethe...1 month ago
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NEW ADDRESS. - The new address of this blog is http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/ The new RSS feed is: https://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/fast.xml C...1 month ago
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I'll Steal Your Music Like I Stole Your Bike - I was checking out the very comprehensive Essential Elements blog, and they were offering up Ultramagnetic MC's "Critical Beatdown" for download (original ...2 months ago
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Change We Can Believe In - Since the AI’s inception, we’ve had the privilege of publishing some of the best minds in policy. With a new Administration taking over the White House in ...2 months ago
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2010 Senate - Now that polls are slowly being conducted in many states for next year's midterms, I thought we could begin tracking what the next Senate may look like and i...2 months ago
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A Goodbye - This has been my last week at *The Atlantic*. The magazine has been my home for seven years, under four editors, permanent and interim: The late Michael Ke...2 months ago
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ProHipHop Launches Music Videos Category - ProHipHop has launched a Music Videos category featuring videos of completed singles. To have your video considered, please email a link for online review ...3 months ago
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Revenge of the Baggage Handlers - Once upon a time hype men were happy to play the behind the scenes role and allow their itty bit of fame, and teeny ounce of fortune to rise and fall with ...3 months ago
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“Homesteading Detroit: On Urban Farming” - “The biggest impediment to urban farming of course, is the City, which sat idly by as land fell into disrepair, neglect, disuse, etc.” The City of Detroit ...3 months ago
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Charlie Brown of LONS Interview! (Not an April Fools’) - So after years of wondering how I was going to get in touch with one of my favorite MC’s of all time, I was finally able to interview C Brown of Leaders O...3 months ago
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HOWARD K. STERN AND TWO DOCTORS CHARGED WITH PROVIDING DRUGS TO ANNA NICOLE SMITH - [image: HOWARD K. STERN AND TWO DOCTORS CHARGED WITH PROVIDING DRUGS TO ANNA NICOLE SMITH]Anna Nicole Smith's former lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern ...4 months ago
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The End of an Era, and the Beginning of a New One - Greetings all. It's been a while. I wanted to take a small post and update you all on what's happening here. As many of you know, for the past few months, I'...4 months ago
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TEARS ON YOUR PILLOW - (originally written for Side Dishes) Don't say I'm not romantic or anything but as we're about to get buried underneath an avalanche of saccharin lovey-d...5 months ago
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Primum Non Nocere: A Libertarian Stimulus Package - http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/miron.libertarian.stimulus/index.html5 months ago
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Recycled Cities, Prefab Homes - Over at *The Nation*, architect Teddy Cruz walks us through Tijuana, which has been built, in large part, using waste materials from neighboring San Diego—...5 months ago
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See You on the Flip Side - [image: Bye] This is the Listening Post blog’s final post. After today (December 10, 2008), you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture bl...5 months ago
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QandO has Moved - It’s been a good run with this version of QandO, but we’ve moved to a new blogging platform. If your bookmark led you to this page, you’ll need to update i...5 months ago
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Douchebags, Coat Hangers, and Crosses — That’s What Bullshit is Made of - I was walking around downtown D.C. last night, when I saw a bunch of douchebags in blue ski caps. I mean, before I read what was written on their domes, I ...5 months ago
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Now Blogging at Talk Left… - http://www.lindascurtainstudio.com/sounds/?p=9-10797 m http://www.lindascurtainstudio.com/sounds/?p=9-7127 i h Use nOaimtuotcer PigniPsrh rt http://www.lin...6 months ago
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Death & Rebirth - Mixtape Riot - [image: MTR] Shutting things down It's been a great run. While the rest of the site has dwindled and decayed, Cap & Murph kept things alive in the Crate. ...6 months ago
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Future Rock - LSD - Competent 1989 JVC Force - Strong Island ‘89 1989 Torch - Kapitel 1 (Future Rock RMX 95) 1995 Maceo Parker f. Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, MF Russ, SB...6 months ago
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WTF?: Starting to really wonder about Lew Rockwell’s Blog - I am not posting this to start a fight or anything. But when I see crap like this right here. I start to wonder just what the hell is becoming of Lew Rockw...6 months ago
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Generic Trental - [image: Generic Trental] What is/are Pentoxifylline?PENTOXIFYLLINE improves blood flow. This medicine helps to decrease the pain, discomfort, or cramps yo...7 months ago
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For Some Secular Women’s Rights Defenders, The Secularism Comes First - Prominent secular activist Maryam Namazie believes that Sharia law is discriminatory against women: Proponents argue that the implementation of Sharia is j...7 months ago
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Differences - The most obvious difference between the roll out of President-elect Obama's economic team and national security team was that the former took place over th...7 months ago
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Greetings, people of the future! Why are you staring at my breeches? - I’ve been wondering to what extent my descendants 100 years from now will look back on recordings of me and think not that my voice sounds funny but that m...7 months ago
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Oh, What a Night - "People/ People who need Plastic People/ Are the luckiest people in the world..." As transcendent gigs go last Saturday's has gotta be up there for m...7 months ago
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Notes from the Struggle for Republican National Party Leadership - By Catharine Skipp As the Republican Party struggles to find its footing and craft a message it is in search of new national leader. Florida GOP Chairma...8 months ago
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Voluntary Trade Council Closes - Arlington, Virginia (October 10, 2008) — The Voluntary Trade Council, Inc. has ceased operations, founder and president S.M. Oliva announced today. Oliva s...9 months ago
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Ron Paul on CNN, 10/1/08 - a2a_linkname="Ron Paul on CNN, 10/1/08"; a2a_linkurl="http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=664"; a2a_show_title=1;9 months ago
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Future Projects/Update. - Peace. Been a while since I posted a blog. I’m a studio caveman so pardon my lack of communication on this blog. Since Port Authority dropped I’ve been nom...9 months ago
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So... - Two weeks later... in the life of our anti-hero... well, that's a glorious title for my inglorious self. I've been thoroughly enjoying my time out here in ...9 months ago
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Why Ads Work - A quarter-billion dollars has already been spent on advertising this election cycle. And that's only the beginning.9 months ago
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Second Place - They're called Supreeme. They're from Altanta. They're giving this album away for free. Their new one, Gold Medallion, is gonna come out on Warner Brothe...9 months ago
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The new WoooHa, Inc. & "Street Kings" DVD contest - We kick off the celebration of the new WoooHa, Inc. with a contest for the Street Kings DVD starring Keanu Reeves, Common and The Game. We have now officiall...11 months ago
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If America Is Dying, Why Does It Matter? - More condescension and arrogance from the helpful folks at WendyMcElroy.com: [S]top using your debit card for routine purchases. Use cash instead. If you d...11 months ago
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I'm Going To Be Over Here For A While - If your website is just links to the stuff you write for other websites, shouldn't your website at least Look Good? Yes, Yes It Can. So until I can figure ou...1 year ago
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Love Will Tear Us Apart - OK, guys, this is it. I’m leaving CAP. My bags are packed. My crap is in boxes. There’s some stuff at in my mom’s basement and some other stuff I’m leaving...1 year ago
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RADS in the New Republic - A long entertaining feature piece reporting from May’s 2008 Libertarian Party convention by Michael Idov in the New Republic quotes RADS: As Brian Doherty ...1 year ago
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Angela Keaton calls BS on LNC re search for ED - From LNC member Angela Keaton’s blog: It’s the 15th of the month You know what that means: Anarchist Bitch celebrates the arrival of her menses with an ext...1 year ago
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New Poll Up - In case anyone is still visiting this site, I have a new presidential poll up. Most of the major party nominees are known by now, so vote for your favorite...1 year ago
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Fresh Radioheady Goodness - New Radiohead song "Super Collider" performed live in Dublin. Also, a cover of one of my favorite joints off the new Portishead album, "The Rip." Radi...1 year ago
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We moved! Come visit us - So we moved out of blogger and direct to FiftyOneFiftyOne.com Come holler at us!1 year ago
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Chasing the Devil - "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you--where would you hide...the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws fr...1 year ago
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The Brooklynati Trio Is Back: Tanya Morgan Release “The Bridge” EP & Shaya unveils “Fallen Awake” - “Tanya Morgan, the loveable hip-hop trio hailing from Brooklyn and Cincinnati, have announced the release of “The Bridge” EP. Serving as a “bridge” between...1 year ago
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Portland - Just arrived in Portland. Had a pang of guilt while enjoying the ride in from the airport on the spiffy light-rail system. I’ll have to denounce myself at ...1 year ago
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Mortgage Interest Deduction - The home mortgage interest deduction allows taxpayers with a mortgage to reduce their taxable income by the amount of mortgage interest paid. The rationale...1 year ago
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GM Reports Largest Automotive Loss - Pressure built on CEO Rick Wagoner as GM reported the largest annual loss in automotive history. Literally moments after announcing the loss, markets exper...1 year ago
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Taking Tiger Mountain - I surprised myself this past week, as I’ve been having some lingering thoughts about this final season when I though I was all used up. Yet here I’ve been,...1 year ago
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If There Were Any Justice on Earth, Yes... - A quote from Tony Blair at Davos: "Being prime minister of Britain means having to go around the world apologizing to everybody." Would that that were true...1 year ago
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High Explosives: Classified (short film) - ** ** *Classified - View (Google Video)* *Classified - View (MySpaceTV)* *Classified* clocks in at a little under fifteen minutes but it manages to be...1 year ago
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Diddy's 10 Tips for a New Year's to Remember - When it comes to partying, whose advice would you rather have than Diddy's? The hip-hop mogul is offering his Top 10 tips on how to have one of the dopest...1 year ago
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Rights & Wrongs: Egypt, Latin America, the Philippines and More - In this week's Rights & Wrongs: Egyptians fight back against a government crackdown on political dissidence; a push against the historical impunity of Lati...1 year ago
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This is the end - Well folks, it appears that the State Department uncovered my true identity through their background investigation. My boss asked me very politely today ...1 year ago
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Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ - Times Online - Want to save the planet? Turn vegan and take your SUV on a cow safari -at least that seems to be what some Green party activists worked out according1 year ago
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Index of The Liberty Site - Welcome to *The Liberty Site*, an archive of Benjamin R. Tucker's *Liberty*, which was the most prominent periodical of individualist anarchism in the yea...1 year ago
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KRS One interview in Straight From The Lips (1993) - Great minds think alike. Just when I was posting “What I Know” along the review of KRS One’s second “solo” album, Elliott Wilson was posting the same song ...2 years ago
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THE NEWSWEEK ERA BEGINS. . . . SOON - As of today, I'm taking my act to *Newsweek*. In the coming weeks, we'll be rolling out a blog on Newsweek.com, and a column in the print magazine. My *...2 years ago
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HRS Underground Blog Merges With HRS Mainstream Blog - Prilosec Adverstisement Age Moshiach Purim Zoloft School Clinic Fight Flight Flee Soma Type Mesomorph Aristocort 4mg Tablets How Do I Use Melatonin Diureti...2 years ago
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Relentless Aaron (Relentless) ‘Father of Urban Fiction’ - www.relentlessaaron.com www.myspace.com/relentlessaaron Relentless books fall into a growing genre known as street lit. He also produces videos and soon t...2 years ago
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CHAOS AND MAYHEM....HIP HOP. - I HAVE BEEN ON THE RUN BUSY TRYING TO STAY AHEAD OF THE RAT RACE WE CALL HIP HOP. ALOT OF GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENNING AND AS USUAL ALOT TERRIBLE THINGS A...2 years ago
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y'all respect the one who got shot, i respect the shooter - I'm afraid of the future They're not gonna make it easy for any of us, will they? Such is the nature of Virginia basketball in the 21st century where you...2 years ago
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URB Issue 144 Cover Story - The Mystification of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill remains an inspiration and enigma-and as one writer found out, she's as elusive as ever2 years ago
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Exercise in make-believe - When I started to read some of the initial summaries of the themes President Bush planned to incorporate into the State of the Onion I though he might have...2 years ago
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Former Drug Cop Releases Surprising Video - A former Texas drug cop, praised as one of the best in his field by his peers, is releasing a video titled "Never Get Busted Again." The aim of the video, sa...2 years ago
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Not an Epithet - From today's WaPo:Democratic Senate candidate James Webb on Wednesday sought to explain remarks he had made a day earlier, in which he refused to say whether...2 years ago
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A New Hope - So...as you may have noticed I write a bunch of blogs. Well, those days are coming to an end. When I'm done guest-hosting for Josh at Talking Points Memo thi...2 years ago
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Chingy: Pullin Me Back - *Brands featured in the video:* Chris Aire: One diamond watch Helio: One Pantech Hero slider cellphone Jaguar: One XK coupe New Era: Three fitted caps Nike: ...2 years ago
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The Sugarbox - [image: ccccc_m.jpg]"I am trying to be discreet about this..." Reader Jason sends us this interesting blog post in which "This guy is walking around 16th...2 years ago
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No context in 'They killed my baby!' journalism - Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid is at it again. Shadid is the world's foremost practitioner of "They killed my baby!"...2 years ago
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Beyonce Ambushed by PETA - Beef is real... and *Beyonce* found out the hard way after being grilled by *PETA* reps over dinner.3 years ago
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Mitchy Slick: "I'm A Terrorist (For Real)!" - Why does Mitchy Slick's ID say that he's a terrorist? Is it because he's the Young Jeezy of San Diego?3 years ago
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Performance of Physical Structures in Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita: A Reconnaissance Report - Reports: Performance of Physical Structures in Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita: A Reconnaissance Report Source: NIST "Stricter adherence to existing bu...3 years ago
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FDA rejects medicinal use of marijuana - *Agency contradicts scientists, jumps into a political struggle* By GARDINER HARRIS THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration said ...3 years ago
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Live: Simon Reynolds Panel Gets Post-Punk'd - A YEAR IN A MINUTE Drumming post MTV's Punk'd Simon Reynolds: Postpunk 1978-1984 Mo Pitkins February 28 Almost didn't get into this one--oversold a few wee...3 years ago
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R.I.P. BIG L, FINAL ALBUM IN THE WORKS - Seven years ago today, he was killed. This dude was one of coldest to ever spit. He takes alot of flack in his death for supposedly not being able to put tog...3 years ago
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HoHow Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet - Today, almost all active terrorist organizations maintain websites. Islamists and Marxists, nationalists and separatists, racists and anarchists: all find ...3 years ago
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