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You are misinterpreting...
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aeschylus
e pluribus unum . The phrase implicitly emphasizes "unum", whereas a lot of liberals get hung up on the "pluribus". The Pledge of Allegiance may be little ...
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another push-into-daycare factor: tax code
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jvanke
Bruce Fuller may be right about parents' desperation. (I haven't read him.) But let's not forget that the U.S. tax code allows parents to pay up to $6,000 ...
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Target employers, not hapless migrants
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I am surprised that Slate ran this article. The immigration debate in this country is badly flawed, and this article does nothing but contribute to the ...
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You forgive Edison's 9,999 failures, but not communism's few
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theNairobiTrio
We were all raised to admire Thomas Alva Edison for his comment that although it took him 10,000 tries to get the electric lighjt bulb right with tungsten, ...
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Messages passing through
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Canadian libertarian
It is not reasonable that American authorities should be able to intercept foreign-origin communications without warrant. It is entirely reasonable that ...
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American patriotism
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jkodak
Although it may be comforting to Democrats to think that their perceived lack of patiotism is the result of a vision that is "too high-minded or too subtle" ...
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Nothing More UnAmerican Than The Pledge of Allegiance
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Mactosh
What kind of paranoid citizens demand from their countrymen some kind of pledge insuring sacred Americaness? No nation, no matter what it stands for, can ...
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It's the socialism, stupid!
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duck
Democrats lost the mantle of patriotism by putting social engineering of substantive equality before protecting our rights. Most Americans today were born ...
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re Confused With Love
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I'm just wondering what the two years of "dating" was like. Was it that he sat next to her in the company lunchroom? ...
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Older sister doesn't get to chose younger's career
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Tilia
I think Prudie is a little off base in implying that the older sister has some kind of say in the career choice of the younger sister. Adults get to chose ...
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Doctor's sister letter just plain weird
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Sundown
Some real oddities in the doctor-sister letter: 1. "Caity" is the made up name for the sister? Usually the pseudonym is a common spelling of some kind. ...
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she needs a new bra
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Barbara Chicago
The woman in her 50s who is going braless may need a new size and style of bra. I stopped wearing underwires and now wear front closing sports bras that ...
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Dear Face:
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You do not have a disorder. You are seeing things correctly; all the attorney's at your law firm are faceless suits. This is normal. ...
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celebrity divorce winner?
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b0nnylass
I don't know, but I think you could say Angelina 'won' her divorce against Billy Bob Thornton. When they were married, she was just a weirdo, but now she ...
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Ebert gave Dirty Harry 3 stars
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Travelall
Interesting article, but the undertone is chilling -- if a movie shows somebody behaving in a way you don't like, it thus makes the movie ... immoral? ...
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Clark in Nam Correction
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Arschbombe
As a captain, he would have commanded one of the companies of 1/16th Infantry (wiki says alpha company), not the whole battalion. Lieutenant Colonels command ...
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SHADDAP!
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After a whole weekend of off-and-on rain, it looks like the weather has decided to be civilized again..just in time for Monday. Wouldn't you know it? The ...
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Writing can be therapy, Dave
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I can't say how many times I've shed tears over the loss. But I only cried once. Does that make sense? And I don't know why anymore. Is it that I loved ...
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Dear Crabby - what "i want to see others" means edition
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Dear Crabby, My friend bought a house where the previous owner was horribly murdered. It makes me queasy that someone was gruesomely slaughtered there ...
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Mermaid and The Mountain Lion
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Kind of a slow week here on DP. We all know what kind of bra each other wears and the size of what's in 'em, so that's good, anyway. How about a story? ...
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"Jack Sprat's Got Breakfast Blues."
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He wears a rasher-shrivelled smile above a poached and scrambled scowl. There's a spot of grease in his sty and a marmaladen crumb hanging from his crud-caked ...
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And there it is, Melinda.
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FieldingBandolier
"Maybe I wouldn't feel this way if I hadn't agreed with every last nasty word of it..." You agreed with every last nasty word of it, and the sexist frame ...
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The Fray Grows Up
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For me, it happen right before work one morning, in the kitchen, when I caught myself in the little mirror over sink, in my underwear. I was calling the ...
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BA's vacation report: "fish guts & bubble butts" edition
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baltimore aureole
greetings from beautiful bethany beach delaware, where improbably enough "mr small" and i are vacationing, and celebrating our 23rd month together. and ...
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