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WHO HOLDS POWER IN AMERICA. Yes, America is defined by the South and the hinterlands. Look at how our Senate is set up, giving disproportionate power to small and low-population states. Look at the inability of Democratic presidential candidates to win election without the support of at least four Southern states. Look at the inability […]

BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL AT THE AIRPORTS. The Department of Homeland Security may claim that the nation’s airlines are still taking additional security precautions because of the “elevated threat” of terrorist attack, and yet I just accidentally took both a reasonably sharp scissors and a four or five-inch tube of hand-creme through airport security […]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2006-02-01-dna-african-americans_x.htm About 30% of black Americans who take DNA tests to determine their African lineage prove to be descended from Europeans on their father’s side, says Rick Kittles, scientific director of African Ancestry, a Washington, D.C., company that began offering the tests in 2003. Almost all black Americans whom Kittles has tested descended from African […]

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JOHN MCCAIN — NOT AN IDIOT. While the official conversation in republican circles, Not an accident.

Hizbullah ‘victory’ boosts extremists By KHALED ABU TOAMEH http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525865707&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull At least 50 newborn babies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been named after Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah over the past month, sources in the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The move is an indication of his growing popularity […]

TERRORIST STATES. One thing the recent revealed plot to bomb American jets has shown, yet again, is the total inadequacy of the state-actor theory of terrorism so popular in the Bush adminstration. While there are plenty of state sponsors of terror, it’s been apparent for several years that Al Qaeda-style jihadism is increasingly a problem […]

ILLNESS AS METAPHOR. Early on in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Dan Gillerman Tk from Hezbolah’s Al-Manar. But the more this fight drags on, the more it becomes clear that they’re both wrong, and that the medical metaphor they have chosen is It much more in common with one […]

HILLARY V. DEAN. Tom Edsall‘s got an excellent piece over at TNR on the An apples-to-apples comparison would $8,143,863 to QRS — laura quinn’s shop FEC reports 2001-2004 plus another $1,195,505 to plusthree, which is co-owned by some QRS people i think plus another couple of hundred grand on a QRS person fulltime inside plus […]

ISREAL SPEAKS WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT. This may just be a personal pet peeve, but I think not. I’ve been noticing as I watch Israeli military spokespeople on CNN and other stations over the past week that the individuals picked for live shots from Haifa or wherever tend to speak Enligsh with perfect American accents. […]