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America’s capital is briefly moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The Whelk — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:16:54 -0800

A Conservative History of the United States - Jack Hitt for New Yorker's Shouts & Murmurs, pieces together America's storied history from quotes by Rick Perry, Dick Armey, Mike Huckabee, Dan Quayle and more.

We'll need to declaw that cat.

gman — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:43:17 -0800

Airport-security cartoons from The New Yorker’s archives (1938 - present).

The "boy-killing, man-mutilating, money-making, education-prostituting, gladiatorial sport."

phrontist — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:55:54 -0800

Does american football unavoidably lead to brain damage over time? Does a culture favoring perseverance at the expense of well being begin in high school?

Verbal, if not literate.

grrarrgh00 — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:42:27 -0800

Sure, it's just more Bush-bashing, but it's gussied up durn pretty. Philip Gourevitch on Bushspeak.

He is grossly underestimated as an orator by those who presume that good grammar, rigorous logic, and a solid command of the facts are the essential ingredients of political persuasion, and that the absence of these skills indicates a lack of intelligence. Although Bush is no intellectual, and proud of it, he is quick and clever, and, for all his notorious malapropisms, abuses of syntax, and manglings or reinventions of vocabulary, his intelligence is—if not especially literate—acutely verbal.

who is this richard perle guy anyway?

specialk420 — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:55:52 -0800

who is this richard perle guy anyway?

is anyone else a little concerned with some of his views and associations being one of the top advisors to our current administration?

hundo

specialk420 — Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:39:42 -0800

"Feith and Luti see everybody not one hundred per cent with them as one hundred per cent against them—it's a very Manichaean world," a defense consultant said. the "Office of Special Plans"???? i thought the new homeland security bill was going to get people to start working together?

The Next World Order.

homunculus — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:52:47 -0800

The Next World Order. A fascinating article suggesting that the new guiding principle of American foreign policy, originally formulated by Cheney and Wolfowitz during the first Bush administration, is the prevention of the rise of any other great power which could rival the U.S.