December 2011
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Happy 38th Birthday to...the Endangered Species... →
There are currently 1900 species listed under the ESA, 1,380 of which can be found in the United States. If you can name them all, you will win our undying respect and/or fear.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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As a child, Newt Gingrich's favorite pastime was... →
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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""This is the civil rights struggle that will... →
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), explaining his support for the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban abortion based solely on the race or gender of the fetus. Yes, this is a real bill.
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“For some time, I’d been hearing stories from my sources in the interstate...”
– Family, kids, minivan—and drug dealing. In our November/December issue, Tony D’Souza explains how the recession has driven average Americans into the game.
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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"The bunny syringe was patented on January 24,... →
Realest sentence on our site today.
Dec 27th
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If every family reused the wrapping from 3 gifts,... →
Stat of the day. (More where that came from here.) Merry Christmas and a Happy Boxing Day Eve, Tumblr.
Dec 25th
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“It’s the media. They never report the good things that the Ku Klux Klan...”
– From “Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Didn’t Hurt Him in Texas” over at The Atlantic. This quote comes from a voter in Texas’ 14th congressional district, in a 1996 focus group. We don’t even.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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A very incomplete list of some of the best books... →
Subject include, but are not limited to: dog cloning, bee keeping, cocaine smuggling, green technology, cutting sign, planting apple trees, and World War III.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Cats4gold.com is a real thing, apparently. →
And it’s beautiful.
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“I wasn’t a week into my job before I, too, had undergone the completely...”
– Amid PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” controversy, Mac McClelland gives a shout-out to what it takes to get your facts straight.
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“We’re not going to repeal or weaken the law, acquiescing to liberal elites’ and...”
– Mike Hubbard, Speaker of the House (Alabama), rejecting any thought of reforming Alabama’s harsh laws on immigration status. (via politicalprof) Sigh.
Dec 20th
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Tumblr's love affair with media outlets...and vice... →
Via Josh Sternberg.
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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"In an email statement regarding the death of... →
Your “Yes, really” of the day.
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Jeb Bush wrote a WSJ op-ed today extolling the... →
There. Fixed it.
Dec 19th
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As if you needed another reason to be skeptical of...
GAFFNEY, S.C. — More than two decades ago, Mitt Romney’s business venture came to town with a bounty of highly anticipated manufacturing jobs. The new plant, just past the gas station off Interstate 85, needed skilled workers to churn out thousands of photo albums. Four years later, the Holson Burns Group Inc. — the company controlled by Romney’s Bain Capital LLC — closed the...
Dec 19th
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