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• Addicted To Oil- Political Cartoon

  Sun Jun 20, 2010
  • I remember hearing at some point that the two main political parties are roughly the same, minus all the dressing of detail in various issues. This is a good example in support of that. Good to see my local paper on Newsvine.

• Glenn Beck: "Historian" For a Troubled America

  Mon May 31, 2010
  • Glen Beck is anything but a historian. Historians don't politicize their work. They also don't frequently make analogies to Nazism to make their point.

• West Memphis police officers killed by right wing extremists

  Sun May 23, 2010
  • There has been a slow erosion of privacy rights in this country, and IMO it can lead to tragic events like this.

• Barack Obama says the beheading of Daniel Pearl ‘captured the world’s imagination’

  Sun May 23, 2010
  • Attaching Pearl's name to the legislation is good solely from a PR (and legacy) standpoint, but it's disconnected from the reality of the bill's intent. Isn't that what politicians do - create bills in the name of martyred people for good publicity?

• Barack Obama says the beheading of Daniel Pearl ‘captured the world’s imagination’

  Sun May 23, 2010
  • So NOW he's for freedom of the press; when not so long ago his administration got into a pissing contest with Fox News; bitching and moaning about their bias towards the White House? HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• California: First A Boycott Of Arizona Over Racial Profiling, Now A Move Against Right-Wing Texas Textbooks

  Sat May 22, 2010
  • Also the nation at large. Some of the students that will read these textbooks are going to be US House representatives, US senators, maybe even the presidency. I do believe that's happened before.

• California: First A Boycott Of Arizona Over Racial Profiling, Now A Move Against Right-Wing Texas Textbooks

  Sat May 22, 2010
  • It should not be a political process in the first place it should be an intellectual process.

• California: First A Boycott Of Arizona Over Racial Profiling, Now A Move Against Right-Wing Texas Textbooks

  Sat May 22, 2010
  • Then get a different text. Have your children read multiple texts and sources outside of school. Oh wait that would mean parents are involved in their children's lives. I've had really bad texts in college before and really well written texts. But I can read other sources too.

• California: First A Boycott Of Arizona Over Racial Profiling, Now A Move Against Right-Wing Texas Textbooks

  Sat May 22, 2010
  • From the Associated Press, we have more examples of some rather unnecessary changes:

• California: First A Boycott Of Arizona Over Racial Profiling, Now A Move Against Right-Wing Texas Textbooks

  Sat May 22, 2010
  • At any rate, history isn't as definitive as this article seems to think it should be so I'd like to know just how far off the path a book's text must be to be considered "revisionist".