Slate held a "write like Palin" contest. They thought this was insulting:
"Reaching the peak of Igikpak, that majestic mount, feeling the smooth Alaskan wind rustle against my cheeks, watching over this vast yet tender land that epitomized so much of America's resplendent pulchritude, and slowly squeezing the trigger" [...]
preventing him, [...]
"The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty-for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks," [...]
One source of strength for the scientific side, in the centuries-long clash of scientific and theistic worldviews, has always been that science didn't involve anything supernatural or untestable. But string theorists have been going around for decades talking about an 11-dimensional universe where we can' [...]
From my Fifties folder. The Fifties were so innocent. Eartha Kitt would be skinned alive by PETA if she wore that coat nowadays. And can you imagine touting lard as a chic health food? As for devil girls and lesbian satans...Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo.
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[...] "Yours is the first official state visit of my presidency, its fitting that you and India be so recognised," 48-year-old Obama told [...]
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by [...]
Senator Reid tonight:
Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation - indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and [...]
Iraq according to a redneck? From an email to K-Lo at The Corner:I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence in picking her last year, help keep McCain [...]
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In general, Americans tend to receive more new treatments and pay more for them — a fact that is usually regarded as a fault of the American system. That interpretation, if not entirely wrong, is at [...]
Al Gore on Conan O'Brien's show the other day:
Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …