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Was Shakespeare a Stoner?
Of all the wild-eyed theories ever circulated about William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon, surely the most spectacular is that he smoked pot. Who’d have thunk it? Is it time to debunk it? Let us […]
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Weekly Address: President Obama – Playing by the Same Rules
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President highlighted […]
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Michelle Obama’s Garden
First Lady Michelle Obama is planting her final White House Kitchen Garden. :( Michelle Obama: Well, this will be the last White House Kitchen Garden planting for me in this administration. It was eight years […]
Election 2016
From the Democratic Party Wing of the Democratic Party: Founders Day Gala in Milwaukee
Last night, Democrats from all over the State of Wisconsin gathered for the Founders Day fund-raiser in Milwaukee. In attendance were both presidential candidates, Secretary Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, local party luminaries like […]
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The Invisibility Factor
The girl was snatched before their eyes—why didn’t the police respond to the women’s calls? It all happened so fast. One minute the young girl in the pale pink track suit, eyes cast down as […]
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President Obama: “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.”
President Obama today, addressing the Cuban people at Gran Teatro de la Habana, Havana, Cuba: President Barack Obama: Like so many people in both of our countries, my lifetime has spanned a time of isolation […]
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Springing into Spring … No Kidding!
Today at 04:30 UTC, the Spring Equinox occurred. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the […]
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Flint Hearings: Rep. Elijah Cummings rips into Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
There were fireworks today at the Flint Hearings. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder finally showed up. There were calls from Democrats on the committee for him to resign, as Republicans attempted to shield him, and deflect […]
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Voter registration – there’s an app for that
I’m in Austin, where South By Southwest is happening. I normally have the Austinite reaction to our version of March Madness — stay far away & ignore everything. But this morning, there was an interview […]
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International Women’s Day: “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”
In 1995, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China. Today, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is a good time to reflect […]