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Most likely because my Jewish father escaped a Nazi camp, I was raised with an acute sense of the horrors of the Holocaust and the powerful admonition that we ‘never forget.’ So it came as a very unpleasant surprise to discover at the age of 44, that many Americans HAVE forgotten, or more likely don’t [...]

Absafuckinlutley
According to the Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll, February 28, 2006, 25% of American troops serving in Iraq “favor rapid U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq,” but 37% of troops serving there said, “Americans back home who favor rapid U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq are unpatriotic.”
Interesting. 37 minus 25 leaves 12 — the same percentage of Americans [...]

The other morning I was driving up the street and noticed an old acquaintance walking up the road. It was bitter cold, so I stopped and asked her if she was going far and if she needed a ride. She was very grateful that I stopped, because her ride to work had not [...]

By now, it has become a cliché to say that the journalists who are working every day in Iraq are risking their lives to keep us informed. An estimated 129 journalists and their support staff have been killed in Iraq since 2003. Meanwhile, journalistic wannabes like Michelle Malkin think they can impugn [...]

Bush Buddy and Conservative Talk Show Host Mike Gallagher (FOX), said yesterday:
The U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”
Gallagher was upset over a comment made by [...]

Las Vegas, as we speak, is changing the way we will live in the West, forever. (See KUED Desert Wars) While claiming not to do once again to the farming and ranching folk, and indeed all of us, in the Owens Valley early in the last century, Las Vegas liars in every way are [...]

President Bush may be determined to pass along his Iraq problem to the next president. Iraqis are equally determined to rid themselves of foreign occupation. As I suggested in a previous post, the decisive battle will be fought in Baghdad. Baghdad is the center of gravity for the larger American mission. If [...]

So seriously, there was no way I could let this one pass without commenting.
It seems that 95% of Americans have had premarital sex.  Even more interesting, the rate has been stable since the 1950s.  It gets better - by their 40’s 99% of Americans have had sex.  Amanda as pandagon wins the award for pithiest response:
the [...]

Ah for the good ole days…in the minds of some…

It’s nothing really. We knew Bush et. al. were lying a long time ago. Everyone else with half a gut knows it now. This will be just evidence file #127.
From The UK Independent:
The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence [...]

In response to Richard Warnick
Just for historical reasons, I’d bet that neither pary will nominate anybody from New York or Massachusetts. Religion is a side issue. BTW, did you watch Senator Harry Reid on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos yesterday? He dealt with the “Mormon question” deftly, like the practiced pol he is.
Yes, but [...]

Courtesy of UNICEF (via Amanda at pandagon).
It doesn’t get any clearer than this:
World leaders know that human development is stunted by entrenched discrimination and injustice. Yet although 27 years have elapsed since CEDAW was adopted – and despite the fact that the convention has received 184 ratifications, accessions and successions by States parties – millions [...]