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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Barack Obama has decided, by the executive order, to rename Mt. McKinley, North America’s highest peak, Denali. That is the traditional name of the mountain, but it was changed back in 1917 or so to […]
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Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, digging for Science & Education
August, 2015, The Horse Heaven Hills, Southwest Washington State The Columbian Mammoth, (Mammathus columbi) once ranged all across the US, from its northern border to as far south as Costa Rica.The Columbian species evolved from […]
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Weekly Address: President Obama – Meeting the Global Threat of Climate Change
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President spoke […]
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Leonard Pitts, Jr. “… it’s about treating where it hurts”
Leonard Pitts, Jr. has something to say about #BlackLivesMatter: This is a column about three words of moral cowardice: “All lives matter.” Those words have risen as a kind of counter to “Black lives matter,” […]
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Say His Name: Radazz Hearns
From ThinkProgress: When Radazz Hearns was shot seven times by police in Trenton, New Jersey earlier this month, police claimed the 14-year-old pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot them while running. Now, the […]
Election 2016
Deal me in!
Friday night, Hillary Clinton, along with the other 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidates, spoke at the Wing Ding Dinner, an Iowa Democratic Party fundraiser in Clear Lake, IA. There is a lot at stake in […]
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A refuge of love & peace during the debate (for AIDS Walk Austin)
Hi. This morning, when I thought about that debate, my heart just wanted to curl up & hide in a corner. I can’t stand all the awful things that will be said, the horrible ideas, […]
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Three major 1959 albums
Many reviewers note the year of 1959 as perhaps the apex of modern (post-WW II) instrumental jazz, with at least three landmark albums symbolizing the era, and all issued on Columbia: Kind of Blue – […]
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Weekly Address: President Obama – Celebrating 50 Years of Medicare and Medicaid
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President celebrated […]
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President Obama: “I’m working alongside you to tear down those barriers”
The president spoke yesterday on the 25th Anniversary of the signing into law of the Americans With Disabliities Act. Fierce