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Hugh Thompson, Jr., a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War who is credited with stopping the My Lai Massacre, was shunned for years by fellow soldiers, received death threats, and was once told by a congressman that he was the only American who should be punished over the massacre? [W] [1] past editions
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- 2009-06-17 :more:talk: Speaking at Netroots Nation § “I have agreed to appear on a panel. But I do not agree with the premises of the panel, "A New Progressive Vision of Church and State, as described: "The old liberal vision of a total separation of religion from politics has been discredited..."” more...
- 2009-06-10 :more:talk: The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing § “Even calling it "insurance" is a sick joke. Insurance implies a guarantee, and no matter what we pay, there are never any guarantees.” more...
- 2009-06-03 :more:talk: Project Expose MSM Reports § “Mr. Isikoff's story [in Newsweek] instead advanced the FBI's already-discredited point of view that the FBI's Translation Division's problems could be summed up as a 'shortage.' The article completely ignored and omitted established cases, problems, and severe weaknesses in the FBI's background security check of applicant translators, security measures in preventing espionage and security breaches, and quality control for translated work.” more...
- 2009-06-02 :more:talk: Governor Bush told Houston Journalist: If Elected "I'm Going to Invade Iraq" § “(Bush) said he wanted to [invade Iraq], and the reason he wanted to do it is he had been led to understand that you could not really have a successful presidency unless you were seen as commander-in-chief, unless you were seen as waging a war.” more...
- 2009-05-31 :more:talk: Why do people persist in voting Republican? § “I happened to read University of Virginia Psychologist Jonathan Haidt's thoughtful essay on what makes people vote Republican ... Read the whole thing. You might even conclude, as I suspect Haidt does, that Republican voters tend to be more nuanced and sophisticated than Democratic voters.” more...
- 2009-05-28 :more:talk: Holier than thou § “...[faith + evolution is] an aggressively dishonest site, too. It consists of lots of people claiming that modern scientific evidence points more strongly than ever to a cosmic designer, which is a flat lie – finding natural mechanisms for complex processes means their designer god is increasingly superfluous.” more...
- 2009-05-27 :more:talk: The founding fathers had copyright right § “The Copyright Act of 1790 – the first passed by the U.S. Congress – set copyrights for a single term of 14 years, with renewal possible for a second term of 14 years if the author was still alive. Today copyrights last for the life of the author plus 70 years, which in practice means that almost nothing created during your lifetime will be out of copyright for as long as you or your children are alive.” more...
- 2009-05-23 :more:talk: The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage § “Author presents the non-Biblical and supposedly non-bigoted case against gay marriage.” more...
- 2009-05-20 :more:talk: Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species? § “If somehow the recognized breeds [of dog] existed only as fossils, paleontologists would consider them not one species but many – certainly more than the thirty-six species of wild dogs that live in nature today.” more...
- 2009-05-17 :more:talk: My Personal Credit Crisis § “If there was anybody who should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe, it was I. As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years.” more...
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