by OOTM
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are in trouble…
There is only one thing that can save the GOP this November, and it is entirely up to one man who has shown absolutely zero loyalty to his Party. I know Ex knows who I am talking about, but […]
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The Ninth Ciruit, the court responsible for criminalizing would-be-pledgers-of-allegiance in elementary schools across the Western United States, recently held that school systems may lawfully engage in viewpoint discrimination (PDF).
I waited to post this, because I was hoping to come across a newpaper article (for linking purposes) that clearly stated the facts in a complete […]
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In an effort to be politically correct by avoiding the word “terrorist,” the Transportation Security Administration accidentally sent a warning shot screaming across the bow of Occasional Outbursts:
Extremists may target private US planes: TSA
(And I thought there was only one… Perhaps it is part of the plot…)
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I remember election night 2000. I stayed up all night waiting to find out which man would be the next president and which party would control Congress. It took 36 days to fully materialize, but in the end, I was thrilled. The Republicans had both houses of Congress and the White […]
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There are those who flirt with pacifist ideologies (from the cozy confines of West Texas, mind you), and there are those who are actually pacifists (returning from captivity in Iraq, mind you).
For the latter, the struggle over what to make of pacifism in action is much more difficult than the former sometimes leads others […]
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The New York Times (spit!) has a report on the Flight 93 audio aired for the first time in public during the Moussaoui trial.
Here are some of the more chilling parts:
There are also the sounds of what may have been the killing of a flight attendant as the hijackers took control: a woman in […]
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Not that it matters to the loonies of the world that refuse to let facts shape their emotions, “but recently declassified documents explicitly show that the Iraqi military had ordered a call for volunteers to carry out suicide attacks on American interests, six months before 9/11 and two years almost to the day prior […]
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What do you get when you cross a black person, a Republican, and a Church of Christ preacher?
Whether or not it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, what you really get is Herman E. Wesley, a black Church of Christ preacher from Montgomery, Alabama who is making news by trying […]
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According to the Washington Post, Meredith Vieira is 49 years old. I’m not picking on the WaPo, because several other papers are also reporting Vieira as 49.
The problem? She’s 52.
The Hartford Courant reported that fact, probably before the talking points including the “49″ story hit the media.
According to a 1989 USA […]
(Since there seemed to be seemed to be some confusion about whether Extremist or I, writing under the nom de plume Out of the Mainstream, had written this piece or that, from now on, I will preface each of my posts with the letters OOTM.)
So, without further ado…
OOTM
What was Judas’ motivation for aiding the Romans […]