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In The Free Speech Zone At The School Of The Americas Watch

Freedom is so endangered that we have special places to fence it in and protect ourselves from it. I spent last weekend in such a place and saw enough courage and creativity to give me hope that freedom isn’t dead.

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Morning Awful: Kids In A Kettle

Via Cory Doctorow: It’s the coldest day of the year, and I’ve just spent seven hours being kettled in Westminster. That sounds jolly, doesn’t it? It sounds a bit like I went and had a lovely cup of tea with … Continue reading

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RT America Crew Arrested

I’m just trying to imagine the alternate history short story in which a VOA crew is arrested in Hungary in 1968.

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We Do Protest So Much Better Than They Do

The street is blocked off. Fences line one side, barriers the other. Residents living along that left side man tables, selling food and drinks. On the right, booths for the dozens of faith organizations and progressive causes. At the end, … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Clueless Beckerheads

The weekend saw a gathering of Beckerheads who couldn’t articulate why they were on the National Mall watching wind-up toys praise Beck between prerecorded Goldline ads. When this interviewer asked them to explain why terrorists still have access to guns … Continue reading

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BeckStock Blogotubing

My one man coverage of the gathering of the Beckerheads begins! Will update after I get my coffee… Wow, a two-hour coffee break? Not really! FUCK COMCAST. These mysterious internet outages are the main reason I’m getting out of this … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck Has A (White) Dream

What was that thing I said the other day about measuring the size of a crowd?  Because we can argue all day about an estimate, but one thing you never want to do is measure a crowd before it’s arrived … Continue reading

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