Sarah Palin and Newsweek: Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate Points (Feminist Edition)

Newsweek is yet another repeat winner of the coveted/dreaded Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate--my unauthorized reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" award for outstanding stupidity in the previous week, represented by a statuette of a pointing INDEX finger. Newsweek previously  …

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Especially since most if not all of the prescribed medications for psychiatric "disorders" carry "significant weight gain" & diabetes as side effects.

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Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform committee held a hearing on the implementation of the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus.

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For those who have slightly better memory of recent events than an average gerbil, you'll surely remember that not too long ago, the Intelligent Design folks, with the help of Ben Stein, put together a whole movie about how evilutionists are all a bunch of evil fascists, out to s …

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Is it worse for a Republican to have been caught naked on camera or to support gay marriage? At least that's the question that comes to mind after the reaction to the news that anti-gay marriage champion Carrie Prejean made a sex tape.

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Can you imagine how the right-wing noise machine would react if President Obama: Increased federal spending as a percentage of the economy to levels previously seen only during World War II.Tripled the national debt.Dramatically increased Social Security payroll taxes on employee …

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Prosecutor loves prosecuting! The evil we have within is so much easier to persecute in others!

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Greenland, which is a part of Denmark now with home rule government, will be severely affected by climate change. [...] Therefore it sounds like a joke when Greenland wants to emit 14 times more CO2 per citizen. It would mean 170 tons pr.citizen.

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Micha Kurz was an Israeli soldier during the second intifada, and when he left the military he co-founded Breaking the Silence, an organization that collects stories from members of the service (which is compulsory in Israel for young men and women) who served in the occupied ter …

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Brazilian student expelled from university over thigh high mini dress....

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An update to this October story.So the dispute filed by Glenn Beck against Isaac Eiland-Hall over the website glennbeckraped andmurderedayounggirlin1990.com has come to an unusual conclusion. Unsurprisingly, Beck lost the dispute.

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The Media Matters For America article points out the hypocrisy of Chris Matthews because he made such a fuss about the Ad that Corzine ran which appear to poke fun at his opponents weight. Chris himself made fun of former VP Al Gore weight repeatedly a while ago.

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Harvey Weinstein didn't bother to circulate a petition demanding her release. Debra Winger didn't issue a statement protesting the director's incarceration and anticipating her next masterwork.

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[Manila, Philippines] Anybody with a sense of mental balance can easily gauge the gravity of our people's disorientation by just observing how they react to many issues of politics.

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Michelle Obama Has 26 Attendants (Jobs, Jobs, Jobs) To Comfort Her While President Obama Plays Golf, But Sarah Palin Is Still Stuck With Mere Clothes

A lot of men have problems with their "golf widow" wives, who don't understand why their husbands pay so little attention to them to chase around a little white ball. Women who wish to really understand this mania should probably read P. G. Wodehouse.

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For most of the past few years, liberals who claim to care about human rights have pointed to the disaster in the Darfur region of Sudan as the prime example of the failure of the international system to act against genocide.

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For better or worse, our American Idiocracy has come to rely on athletes as national pedagogues. Michael Jordan educated the country about commitment and just doing it. A.C. Green lectured us about sexual caution.

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Recently, Speaker Pelosi teared up at a press conference in an emotional call for civility in political discourse. Garrison Keillor has considered the issue and proposed a solution:

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The friction between Israel and Turkey did not begin with the cancellation of the "Anatolian Eagle" exercise this week, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave Israel a slap in the face and took a louder American slap in return.

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Sir, - For the Turkish Prime Minister to criticize the IDF punitive raid into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead is another glaring example of Islamic hypocrisy ("Ankara must decide," October 13).

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The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the historically-black college and throughout the African-American community.

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The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone except the brainwashed Americans. Even the very Israeli Jerusalem Post can see the double standard displayed by "all of Israel now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report":

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How could a radical minority be elected by Americans to run our government particularly when that minority embodies values which are the antithesis of our founding documents and their emphasis on personal liberty? Most Americans value honesty, integrity, and self-sufficiency, and …

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The CBO's score of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill isn't winning over any converts. After a year of building up the budget office's 'bipartisan' credibility– Sen.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped congressional Republicans on Thursday for holding Democrats to a higher standard in the rhetoric employed in the often acidic health care debate.

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