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Morning Brief: Yanukovych Wins Ukraine Election
FP Passport - Feb 8 09:03
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Audi's Green Police Super Bowl Ad: Truth in Advertising? Will it Move Units?
Hit & Run - Feb 8 08:44
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Reason Morning Links: Weather Disasters, Technological Disasters, Political Disasters
Hit & Run - Feb 8 08:02
• Snow shuts down D.C. • Uncertainty after a deadly explosion in Connecticut: "They're calling the hospitals, hospitals tell them to call...
Recently at Reason.tv: Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson's Vision For a Truly Free America
Hit & Run - Feb 8 07:58
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Truth About Gays in the Military
Hit & Run - Feb 8 07:00
All recent experience argues that the American military would adapt fine to accepting gays. But as Steve Chapman writes, when it comes to actual real-world evidence, supporters of th...
Israeli Ayatollahs Forbid Erotic Poetry in Classroom
Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 8 05:21
Israel’s education ministry feels it must protect the purity of Israeli youth by preventing it from reading some of the finest Israeli erotic poetry in the classroom. The result is a furious and hilarious rejoinder by some of Israel’s finest poets: <block...
Palin: ‘My Plan is Quite Simple’
Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 8 04:55
A high school friend of my wife’s tells the following hilarious story on her Facebook page. She was sitting in her living room watching Sarah Palin’s Tea Party speech and when the latter got to the part of her speech where she said: “My plan is quite simple.” The high school friend’s 85 year-old mother said, witho...
Wiesel Nobel Laureate Ad Urges Iran Sanctions
Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 7 21:05
Elie Wiesel and usual pro-Israel suspects, Dershowitz and Jon Voight (partially obscured in background) protest Ahmadinejad UN speech (AP) <...
That Tim Tebow Anti-Abortion Ad Is Even Less Interesting Than Florida's Kicking Cincinnati's Ass in The Sugar Bowl
Hit & Run - Feb 7 15:56
Here's the controversial Tim Tebow Focus on the Family commercial that will run during the big game today: ...
Wehrkunde guest list bingo
A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros - Feb 7 12:52
It’s Wehrkunde time! The annual festival of military-industrial thinkery, held in Munich for NATO bigwigs of all kinds, is coming around again. Laura Rozen notes that a surprising number of John McCain’s campaign...
Developing a Saudi Culture of Responsibility
Crossroads Arabia - Feb 7 12:22
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Stopping By Sarah Palin's Speech on a Snowy Weekend...
Hit & Run - Feb 7 11:45
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A Saudi Handshake
Crossroads Arabia - Feb 7 10:33
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The last man in East Germany
A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros - Feb 7 09:22
What must it have been like to be a Stasi case officer in the autumn of 1989? What did they do? The answer, in this fascinating piece in Der Spiegel, was that they kept going to the office. In fact, they kept on going about their s...
Israeli Extremists Shout ‘Hitler Was Right’
Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place - Feb 7 05:21
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