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"Secrets From Beyond The Emerald Curtain" is an ongoing investigation into some inexplicable proceedings at the Huffington Post.

لا إله إلا الله ، وأن محمدا رسول الله.( There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.) ~Sunni Shahada    The Arab World Before Islam Before we delve into the religion of Islam itself, let's look at Arab...

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, April 14, 2011.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ~George S. Patton World War 2 was the bloodiest, largest, and most costly war the world had ever seen. But it...

Return to Troll Busters! home page Food Stamps Of the 49 million people last year unable to consistently get enough food to eat, 17 million of them were children. There was a particularly telling aspect of this pointed out that at...

WARNING: This post is rated SSA for Serious Snark Alert. Its content may not be suitable for those of a right-wing persuasion or even those seeking a balanced political discussion. If somewhat over-the-edge-unbalanced musings are your thing, please read on. When...

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Manipulation of headlines in general and observations at the Huffington Post - Text: Truth; Illustration: B. McCue - {Author’s note: some of the techniques I’m going to introduce are simply common business practice today and are neither unique to the...

Evil is defined as something morally reprehensible but that definition opens up more doors.

All the Talk of a Brokered Convention­....just talk, talk, talk.... The reality. There are no such things as real political “brokers” embedded in the parties any more.....t­herefore no brokered convention­. Pre-1976, when the primary/ca­ucus pattern now in place became the dominant...