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By Hobbes | Jan 31, 2008 |
5
When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.
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By Hobbes | Jan 30, 2008 |
4
This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.
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By Demosthenes | Jan 21, 2008 |
20
In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?
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By Hobbes | Jan 21, 2008 |
7
Who needs a "first black president" who is actually white when you can have a "first black president" who really is black?
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By Hobbes | Jan 10, 2008 |
11
The left-wing blogsphere claim that Hillary's people stole the election from Obama. The evidence, if true, is staggering.
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By Demosthenes | Dec 31, 2007 |
7
The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."
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By Kermit Frosch | Dec 7, 2007 |
3
The Trust doesn't answer to anybody anymore. They don't even have to be right.
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By Hobbes | Nov 30, 2007 |
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It's the teddy bear being insulted, by being given such a disreputable name.
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By Hobbes | Oct 10, 2007 |
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Larry Craig should resign! But he should not be alone.
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By Hobbes | Sep 28, 2007 |
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We now know that Nancy Pelosi's Democrats are a bunch of crooked politicians, just like the ones they replaced last November.