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Tweet I think Al Gore must have been behind this eco-friendly housing subdivision, because it’s making money for the rich and screwing every one else: Residents promised cheaper bills to live in a multi-million pound eco-friendly ‘homes of the future’ complex say they will have to move out after being hit with sky-high electricity charges. [...]

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Tweet I posted my mildly amusing (very mildly amusing) Obama’s got a gun effort and invited readers to submit their own Obama’s Got a Gun meme posters.  Here are five of them, and they’re great. From b.: From Dagwood: From Mike Devx: From Charles Martel: From Indigo Red: From Ritely:

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Tweet I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.  I also believe that there’s something in or about that birth certificate that he doesn’t want to acknowledge.  A reader who used to work in social services “back in the day,” has an interesting theory, and allowed me to reprint it here: I just read your [...]

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Tweet From the Emergency Committee for Israel:

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Tweet I first read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in 1976, when I was in high school. In those days, the book was popular, as it has been since its first publication two-hundred years ago (January 28, 1813), but it wasn’t yet trendy. I didn’t care about trends. I fell in love — with an [...]

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Tweet “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York,” says the malevolent Richard III in Shakespeare’s eponymous play.  Generations of Shakespearean actors have portrayed him is a sinister hunchback, greedily eying his brother’s throne and eventually murdering two young boys in order to obtain it.  The play was [...]

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