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Saint Hammer of Texas

I praise my Lord and Savior that someone ( Rick Scarborough) is finally bringing attention to the plight of persecuted Christians. He could have joined with the popular crowd and stood up for...

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Remembering that MLK lived...

Growing up, I learned to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., and I was not taught to think anything "bad" about him.  Nonetheless, in the "standardized" teachings, something deep was missing,...

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My View on I/P

I was in Shul on Yom Kippur when the news came that Israel had been attacked.  It was years ago.  But I remember the palpable shock in the building.All at once, we knew that Israel was in a war, Holy...

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Her name was Neda...

Cross-posted from Street ProphetsOn Saturday, June 20 the world was shocked to witness the senseless and gruesome death of a 27 year old Iranian philosophy student, Neda Agha Soltan as she walked arm...

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Do we need a Health Care Martyr?

A horrible scenario that may come to fruition. Too Many Martyrs by Phil Ochs is playing in the background

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In the name of these four women, I ask your help

  On the second day of December in 1980, four US women working for peace and justice in El Salvador were brutally murdered by the military forces of that country:   Laywoman Jean Donovan,  Ursuline...

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If whistle-blowers are martyred, only martyrs will blow whistles -- Now time...

Critics of the tactics and personalities of Snowden and Greenwald, and everybody desiring more checks and balances on the surveillance community, would benefit from paying more attention to the...

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Commemorate Them

Tonight on MSNBC, Chris Hayes did a very powerful thing.

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May Day! May Day: Dancing In the Street

August 9, 2014, Ferguson Missouri, black man shot by cop, left on ground, dead, ID:  Michael Brown.  Early morning April 12, 2015, 26-year-old Freddie Gray made eye contact with Baltimore police on...

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The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?

In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and blasted check points and...

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The Economist: "Caliphate Strikes Back." The Coalition corrects Iraq map,...

The Economist tries to get it right. The center of Ramadi is indeed under ISIS control.That's "ISIS" as an acronym for Islamic State Is Shxt.What matters most in Iraq goes to three things:-- The Sunnis...

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Is ISIS Disintegrating ???

Word out of Iraq from yesterday is quite different the what I see in the morning war coverage out of MSM/corporate media.-- Over in Iraq the coalition has set up two large-scale victories in the...

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UPDATE: CENTCOM watched 30 ISIS truck bombs roll on Ramadi and did nothing....

See evil. This goes to May 14th when the U.S. military does surveillance and gets all the proper details: how many truck bombs, how many ISIS fighters came in, how many guns. How the attacks formed...

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Central Command (CENTCOM) before they knew Ramadi had fallen to ISIS

Ramadi fell to ISIS in a battle that ran from early May 14th through into the 15th. Americans from the Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter down to talk radio meth heads blamed the Iraqi soldiers: "I...

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War in Syria and Iraq: Check CENTCOM's event logs for May and the U.S. is...

Summary:According to U.S. Central Command logs, we are making fewer airstrikes during a whole month today than we did every day in 2003 during the effort to remove Saddam Hussein. Compared to current...

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Hunger Strikers Speak With San Francisco Mayor Lee: "Blood Will Be on Your...

The Mayor of San Francisco and the #Frisco5 hunger strikers finally had a conversation today, the fifteen day of their hunger strike demanding San Francisco’s Police Chief Greg Suhr resign and standing...

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Compassion and free market

I talked about compassion before here.  I said compassion is social, and that acting compassionately towards other people is rewarding. Humans are social animals, so we are rewarded for compassion for...

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