The Talk: Nonblack Version - Taki's Magazine

(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a  …

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Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante? | The Public Editor - NYTimes.com

That approach is what one reader was getting at in a recent message to the public editor. He wrote:

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House Passes Bill To Grant Congress Veto Power Over White House Rules

A bill that would give the controlling party of either chamber of Congress veto power over any major new regulation passed the House of Representatives Wednesday. The measure, dubbed the Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny -- or REINS -- Act, would require Congres …

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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout

To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics.

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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America | Cracked.com

Here's the weirdest graph you'll see all week. It's graphing the popularity of zombie movies versus vampire movies, split out by whether the president at the time was a Republican or a Democrat.

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Texas Kaos:: Governor Rick Perry Urges Republican Voters to Abandon Public Schools

"I really don't see why high schools should have to teach college level courses like calculus, economics, physics, chemistry or biology. Not all children go to college anyway.  Texas has plenty of on the job training programs that teach skills and trades.

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Stephen Colbert's PAC Is More Than a Gag - NYTimes.com

“I am much taken by this and can’t think of any real parallel in history,” said Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution. “Yes, comedians have always told jokes about elections, but this is quite different.

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Huge Tosser Makes Sense: Russell Brand on UK Riots | The Awl

"Why am I surprised that these young people behave destructively, "mindlessly," motivated only by self-interest? How should we describe the actions of the city bankers who brought our economy to its knees in 2010? Altruistic? Mindful? Kind? But then again, they do wear suits..."

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Penny Red: Panic on the streets of London.

Noone expected this. The so-called leaders who have taken three solid days to return from their foreign holidays to a country in flames did not anticipate this. The people running Britain had absolutely no clue how desperate things had become.

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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor | Cracked.com

Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other players get to @!$%# you. And if you win, the dealer @!$%#s you. A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million "working poor" in America, and if you're not, you know somebody who is. Like me.

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Why Anthony Weiner Should Not Resign

He has betrayed his wife and family; it is up to them to decide whether to forgive.

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Fox News mistakes Tina Fey for Sarah Palin - Yahoo! News

Hahahahahahaha...

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School superintendent to Governor: Please make my school a prison | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think

The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student. I guess we need to treat our students like they are prisoners, with equal funding. Please give my students three meals a day.

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Rapper Common performs at White House amid media controversy - The Washington Post

This week, Common was deemed a “vile,” “cop killer rapper” in headlines on Fox Nation, a Web site run by Fox News.

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Boycott the royal wedding: Americans are supposed to hate monarchs, not worship them. - By Mark Oppenheimer - Slate Magazine

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Democrats in Wisconsin Claim Illegal and Unethical Signature Gathering By Republicans in Recall Efforts

It looks like conservative activists will finish with three successful recall petitions, against Dave Hansen, Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch (so far, only the Hansen signatures have been submitted to the Government Accountability Board).

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Healthcare Reform Hits mainstreet

Written and produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Narrated by Cokie Roberts, a news commentator for ABC News and NPR and a member of Kaiser's Board of Trustees. Creative production and animation by Free Range Studios.

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Michigan Emergency Manager Robert Bobb Issues Layoff Notice to All Detroit Public School Teachers

What we have in Detroit is an Emergency Manager appointed by the previous governor who was facing a challenge from the School District which was frustrated by his top-down approach to school reform. That challenge was effectively crushed by the passage of Public Act 4.

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Lindsey Graham Offers Stirring Defense of Government Spending: "Will Allow Us to Create Jobs"

"If you're a Republican and you want to create jobs, then you need to invest in infrastructure that will allow us to create jobs," he said at a press conference with Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee on Social Security in response to a question from TPM.

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Chase: New $5 ATM Fee

"Total Checking." "Value Checking." "MyAccess Checking." What do they all have in common? The word "free" is missing from the name.

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It's the Inequality, Stupid

"A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244."

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Justice Scalia Will Teach Tea Party's Constitutional Class

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Surprise! Republicans Threaten to Block ALL Dem Initiatives

Just hours after Democrats and Republicans agreed to bargain on tax cuts, and fewer hours still after Defense Secretary Robert Gates implored Congress to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell this year, word leaked that Republicans aren't really interested in any of it -- a major repudiat …

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Greg Davis' Brilliance

"We started the ballgame with the idea that we wanted to make (UCLA) work from side-to-side," Davis said. "When you do that, you're not going to be as vertical as you are with play-action or whatever.

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What would Abe Lincoln's Facebook page look like?

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