Archive for June, 2008

Jun 22 - Jun 28 (305) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Sullivan thinks it’s impossible to imagine that we could have this sort of long-standing military presence in the Mideast without perpetual fighting. Perhaps he doesn’t realize that the U.S. already has a string of bases in Kuwait, Qatar, the …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (303) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Germany: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding. A description of the project from the artists’ website: In Hungry Planet , Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio present a photographic …

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Despite setbacks, work on West African village to begin at Frontier … - Staunton News Leader

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

STAUNTON — The ship carrying the materials for the Frontier Culture Museum’s newest exhibit just left port a couple weeks ago from West Africa. The Nigerian men the museum hoped would build the exhibit did not. Instead, the would-be workers will …

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Ticket sales for ‘Little House’ drew crowds, jammed phones - Pioneer Press

Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Ticket sales for ‘Little House’ drew crowds, jammed phones
Pioneer Press, MN - Jun 27, 2008
By Dominic P. Papatola Guthrie Theater officials reported lines out the door and around the block Friday morning as tickets for “Little House on the

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Online Opinion Poll - KELOLAND TV

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Can’t call the Madville Times a NIMBY rag: we’re all about what’s going on in our backyards: More Big Stinky Dairy Business Coming: An e-mail correspondent informs us that Riverview Farms of Morris, Minnesota, wants to build a 5,000-head concentrated …

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Writing provides author therapy - Cumberland Times-News

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Writing a column or blogging is an outlet that allows the writer to share thoughts, ideas and opinions. Whether they have any validity in the grand scheme of things is pretty much up to the reader, not the writer. For the writer, it is therapy. You …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (300) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Almost every advocate of the flat tax (correct me if this doesn’t include you) is actually proposing a progressive tax with two brackets. These are a 0% bracket for all income below a minimum threshold (which may based on family size), and a bracket …

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Jun 22 - Jun 28 (299) - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Why, the man even tossed his own grandmother overboard back in Philadelphia — only to haul her back on deck now that her services are needed. Yesterday, granny was the moral equivalent of the raving Reverend Wright. Today, she is a featured prop in …

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Group rallies to restore historic log cabin in Yelm - Nisqually Valley News

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Group rallies to restore historic log cabin in Yelm
Nisqually Valley News, WA - 10 minutes ago
With $25000 already raised, the Yelm Lions Club still needs at least $12000 more before they can start repairs on the cabin, a historical building close to

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150 year-old cabin starting new life - Wagoner Tribune

Friday, June 27th, 2008
150 year-old cabin starting new life
Wagoner Tribune, OK - 37 minutes ago
The disassembled cabin went for a while to Gilcrease Museum, but a log cabin did not fit with its collection. The next stop was a barn for several years.

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