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There is an important post today at The Progress Report about the “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” program run by David Horowitz at college campuses this week.
The whole crusade is counter-productive in a number of ways, but it’s cleverly planned.
Of course, mislabeling international terrorism is not a great idea. What we are dealing with bears [...]

Leave to someone working in theoretical neurobiology and artificial life at the Santa Fe Institute to have a most interesting side project. The Santa Fe Institute and the people there just simply… rock.
Virgil Griffith has created a Wikipedia propaganda-tracking tool - the WikiScanner (tip o the hat to Alternet for the story).
People change [...]

Tell ABC: 9/11 Lies and Propaganda are Unacceptable!
Blame Clinton, let Bush off the hook? Anyone who has done the least bit of research into what happened on 9/11 should know better. See Clinton, 9/11 and the Facts, and it’s not only Democrats who are objecting to this thing.
Follow the money… Who bankrolled the [...]

What will it take for blue-collar, middle-to-lower suburbia, struggling rural, and working poor to understand that they do not benefit from the policies and aims of this administration? I do not understand how this administration has been able to mislead demographics like NASCAR fans and Southern Baptists into the ranks of the supporters. As interest [...]

Under founder Charles Taze Russell, “International Bible Students” were somewhat anti-organizational, centered on personal study of the Bible.
Watchtower, Sept. 15, 1895, p. 216.
Beware of ‘organization.’ It is wholly unnecessary. The Bible rules will be the only rules you will need. Do not seek to bind others’ consciences, and do not permit others to bind [...]

Thanks to Lucas for pointing me to NewsHounds.org. The logo, heh heh.
It’s comparable to Media Matters, only a little less researched, more opinion-based, perhaps a little bit more hip, a bit less careful. A younger audience?
Don’t wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s calling out to idiot America. - [...]

What’s a girl got to do to have her house marked with an X on the local territory map of the JWs?
For the second time this week, I received a home-delivered invitation to the District Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The first was delivered when we weren’t home. The second was delivered this morning by a [...]