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Politics: National
‘Medaling’ With Free Speech at the Olympics
August 15th, 2008

President Bush sounded just like a liberal.
Yes, you read that right. Bush. Liberal. Same sentence.

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Reframing the Anti-democratic, Anti-American, and Anti-intellectual Rhetoric of Elite
August 1st, 2008
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Anti-intellectualism is an emotional response to arguments and candidates with which one disagrees. It stems from a fear of coming across ideas that might cause cognitive dissonance, or the discomfort one feels when faced with new information that challenges what one already believes to be true.

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It’s Still the Economy, Stupid
August 1st, 2008

“Difficult” doesn’t even begin to describe what has happened to Americans the past seven years.

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Abominations: Shrimp, Sodomy, and the Lame Case Against Gay Marriage
August 1st, 2008

The King James translation of Leviticus uses the same word abomination to describe clam chowder as it does homosexuality.

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