6-Month-Old Private Graduates From Marine Corps Training Depot
Pfc. Smedley Butler is the newest recruit to graduate from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. The private may also be the youngest Marine to ever graduate from the facility: Smedley in a 6-month-old English Bulldog. The Marine becomes the depot’s new mascot, replacing retiring Cpl. Belleau ...
Obama, Clinton urge women to back Democrats
Heading into President Barack Obama’s final midterm election in the White House, Democrats on Friday sought to energize female voters, pointing to women as key to the party’s future. “We do better when we field the whole team. When women succeed, America succeeds,” Obama said at an annual forum spon ...
Twelve Days of Arkansas - Day 4 - Famous Sons and Daughters pt 1
My thanks to this site (with many more entries than I plan to spotlight) for the information. http://www.arkansas.com/uniquely-arkansas/famous-arkansans/ Johnny Cash (1932-2003) - This "Man in Black" was born to a Kingsland, Arkansas sharecropper on February 26, 1932. His first big hit was "Folsom P ...
things that are happening now or just happened
back to running, just 2.5 miles today and felt ok (got my period this morning so that's actually good under the circumstances). I'm also thinking about heading off to Nocturna tonight which is crazy because I never go to goth nights anymore but ... it would give me a chance to wear that cute Kambrie ...
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Sustain CounterPunch and sustain yourself
This is as good a time as any to urge my readers to take out a subscription to CounterPunch magazine, especially since the latest issue contains an article I wrote about Indian gaming casinos that I am particularly proud of. It weaves together strands about the history of New York state’s indigenous ...
Wreaths Across America
It is that time of year to start up with Wreaths Across America again. Our fourth annual Wreaths Across America Ceremony will be on Saturday, December 13, 2014, at 10:00AM in the Veteran’s Section of Fairmount Cemetery. As we have discussed in previous ...
Did we lose the 'War on Poverty?': Red/Blue America
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Poverty," an unprecedented federal effort to reduce the nation's then-burgeoning poverty rate. "The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people, to make them dependent on the ...
As America re-enters Iraq, Obama's slams the nation's 'suck it up' attitude
In a terse announcement by the Associated Press via the Tulsa World (of Oklahoma) on Sept. 20, 2014, 2,203 American servicemen have been killed in action in the almost 14 years worth of combat in the Central Asian nation of Afghanistan. Perhaps it's ironic ...
'America's Funniest Home Videos' marks 25 years of laughter
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — “A relic of a bygone time.” “The uncoolest show on TV.” “Inexplicably never-ending, like a Cher farewell tour.” Critics and bloggers can beat it up all they want. If “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has proved ...
Gary Chartier on America's Class System
In The New Class Conflict, Joel Kotkin argues that the socially and politically ascendant groups in contemporary America are the oligarchs of Silicon Valley and a complex of elite journalists, think-tank pundits, and academics that he dubs the clerisy.
Can You Guess America's Least Favorite Airline?
Trying to decipher which airline is Americans' least favorite is like asking what color sky people prefer. Generally speaking, flying is a necessary evil -- if you want to travel anywhere beyond 300 miles in a relatively quick fashion, you don't have many ...
Not just America, it's the world vs Islamic State: Obama
"This is not America's fight alone.I won't commit ourtroops to fighting another ground war in Iraq, or in Syria. It's more effective to use our capabilities to help partnerson the ground secure their own countrys futures," Obama saidin his weekly address ...
