Speakers' Corner

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 30, 2011
In the 21st Century, intellect has debased itself to such a point that every action needs simplification to the nth degree, with people being willfully and patently unable to see more than one way of achieving an end.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 29, 2011
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 28, 2011
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, June 27, 2011
We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the...
So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected...

Mongol

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  “I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” ~Genghis Khan Temuijin...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, June 24, 2011

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