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Deadly Israeli Airstrike Sparks Fury | Chicago Tribune
When I head the news this morning, I was shocked, saddened and outraged. Then, I was ashamed, because the Secretary of State is still holding back from urging an immediate cease-fire. Why? Because the Israelis have told her they need a couple more weeks to drive out the [...]

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Seeing the Forest: Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress
Pete McCloskey speaks out - the Revolt of the Elders, he calls it. I’m sure the Repugs call it something else.
(tags: Republican CorruptRepublicans DeLay Abramoff)

Bush Sees a Chance for Change to Sweep Mideast - New York Times
“This is a moment of intense conflict in the Middle [...]

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I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry’s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to [...]

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My husband David and I met up with parents Shel and Leah, siblings Mitch and Gloria, and also Aunt Gwen for a day at the Museum of Science and Industry. Mom Leah had gotten tickets to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, but the real reason for the outing was the annual family celebration of Hannukkah [...]

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SojoNet: Faith, Politics, and Culture: Blistering Hope
Meditations on perseverance from a stonemason’s perspective
(tags: Poem)

Boing Boing: Babies good for two things: poo production and marketing
(tags: Childfreedom Breeders PooProduction Marketing)

Nevada Thunder » Blog Archive » Reign of Error
50 percent of all Americans are misinformed, and content to reamin so.
(tags: Krugman)

The Blog | Robert J. Elisberg: George Bush’s [...]

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