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Last week, I received the following message from my older brother, who is also quite politically inclined:
One thing I love about Eastern Europeans is that they already lived through all of the BS were are heading toward. The 2nd page is better, I think it was translated from Russian it’s so a little choppy.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
(I felt [...]
Even if you haven’t been on board with everything he’s done since his inauguration, there’s one thing you really have to give President Obama credit for – he knows how to pick the right man for the job. Our current Energy Secretary is Professor Steven Chu, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in [...]
I’ve been meaning to showcase the awesome editorial cartoons of Terence Nowicki, Jr. on here for awhile – hunting through his archives today, I found one which truly needs no words:
Won’t you please check out his collection at This is Historic Times, so he doesn’t kill me for reblogging his cartoon?
Lately in several discussions revolving around government spending and taxation, I’ve noticed a basic problem with Americans when it comes to the issue of government budgets; America as a political-financial entity is utterly schizophrenic. We will, more often than not, vote for increasing spending and vote against raising taxes – and you simply can’t have [...]
The Caribbean’s largest island, Cuba, has been off limits to Americans since the Kennedy era. It remains the only place in the world which Americans are forbidden to visit by their own government.
President Obama’s recent removal of travel restrictions for Cuban Americans visiting family has given hope to those who assert our freedom to travel [...]
During the American Revolution, inflation was so out of control that the price of corn rose 10,000%, the price of wheat 14,000%, flour costs rose 15,000%, and the price of beef went up 33,000%.
A dime has 118 grooves on its circumference. A quarter has one more.
Over $1 million worth of money belonging to Adolf Hitler [...]
Our regular readers have no doubt noticed this has been an incredibly slow week here at Lux Americana. I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates – this has been a very hectic couple of weeks on several fronts, and regular updates to the site have fallen back as a lower priority.
My grandmother recently [...]
Nate Silver, statistical genius at fivethirtyeight.com who correctly called nearly every last step of the 2008 election, has created this map of probable timelines for individual states legalizing gay marriage.
[via Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic]
This appears to mean that, by 2024, the Colbert Coalition will realize its worst fears.
“If all 50 states approve gay [...]
On an episode of Dutch television program Advocaat van de Duivel (The Devil’s Advocate) airing last month, a civil jury of five found Osama bin Laden not guilty on the charges of ordering and financing the attacks of September 11, 2001, and being the head of Al Qaeda.
The immigration debate in the Netherlands has been [...]
It’s been a rough couple of years for you, hasn’t it? Why don’t you relax for a few… grab a cold beer, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em… maybe talking about it will help.
You see, we really do care about you. You’re our brothers and sisters, and while we may fight sometimes, we’re all Americans [...]
Earlier this week Larry Pope, president and chief executive of Smithfield Foods of Virginia, insisted that “we are very comfortable that our pork is safe,” and that “we know of no pigs that are sick, no people on those farms that are sick and no people in our plants [who are sick],” and the U.S. [...]
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