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Posts Tagged ‘center for american progress’

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Thinkers Go After Women, Minorities and Babies

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Your head could be in this!Tuesday, March 16: Our President and savior Barack Obama may actually be an incarnation of the long dead and often celebrated Jesus of Christian mythology, but the Brookings Institution is nonetheless convinced that religion was left out of the 2008 election. They ask if God will make a comeback in the 2010 elections and, if so, how many Democrats he will strike down before they remember that religion and 9/11 are for conservative use only. [Brookings Institution] MORE »


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Thinkers Contemplate The Things They Love: John Yoo, Terrorism, And War

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Your head could be in this! Wednesday, March 10: Yes, someone watched you as you walked to work today. In fact, someone watches you every day, everywhere you go, because this is America, where 9/11 happened, so we’ll never forget what you’re wearing, where you’re going and who you’re talking to. This, as the Cato Institute explains, is the mentality consuming everyone, even the dirty, America-hating libruls. [Cato Institute] MORE »


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Thinkers Play With The Gays And Marvel At The Wonders Of The Internet

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Your head could be in this!Wednesday, February 17: Rebuilding Haiti is extremely important, which is why the country just needs a Super Bowl. It will hands-down fix everything. The Brookings Institution discusses options for how best to rebuild the country, options which really should include building a Superdome and starting a professional football league. [Brookings Institution] MORE »


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Thinkers Ring In the New Year With No Original Thoughts

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Your head could be in this!Tuesday, January 5: Being poor in 2010? Definitely worse than being poor in 2009, because now we have absolutely no money to fund safety-net programs that provide important things like food and shelter, at least according to the Urban Institute. Here’s to a prosperous/homeless 2010! [Urban Institute] MORE »


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Thinkers Talk Turkey

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Your head could be in this!Tuesday, November 24: Two days before we all sit down to indulge in the largest, heaviest meal of the year, the Brookings Institution is taking the time to inform us that the world is RUNNING OUT OF FOOD. Enjoy your turkey. [Brookings Institution] MORE »


WRAPPED UP IN BOOKS

A Very—What’s A Neutral Word Here—Manageable Local Readings Schedule

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Oh man it is August so soon, and to celebrate, famous socialist bookstore Politics & Prose has declined to schedule any readings this weekend. Less is more, right? Especially when it comes to actual events that usually exist. No worries, there are still weekday goings-on relating to chimerical war criminal Donald Rumsfeld and a special celebrity appearance by a fella who says he works for Joe Biden. MORE »


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Nature vs. Nurture Debate: Solved! Convenient Baby Boomer Triumphalism! All This And More, In Books!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

What’s happenin’ everyone? Besides America’s anniversary with its first wife, George Washington, we mean. Books, books are what’s happening. Lots of books about the military and its history, if that is your “thing.” Also some meta-novel about moving to Europe, and another new book that proves, with Science, that Obama is nothing more than an Hawaiian Hugo Chavez. Plus, poetry! MORE »