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Show 10/3/14
Yom
Kippur
Yom
Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is one of two Jewish High Holy Days.
The first High Holy Day is Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year). Yom
Kippur falls ten days after Rosh Hashanah on the 10th of Tishrei,
which is a Hebrew month that correlates with September-October on the
secular calendar.
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Walter
Lippmann
Lippmann
was a journalist, a media critic and an amateur philosopher who tried
to reconcile the tensions between liberty and democracy in a complex
and modern world, as in his 1920 book Liberty and the News. In 1913,
Lippmann, Herbert Croly, and Walter Weyl became the founding editors
of The New Republic magazine.
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Klayman
files for deportation of Barack Obama
Larry
Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial
Watch and Freedom Watch, is suing to get President Obama deported.
Shipped out. Sent back. Removed.
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Small-town
America rebels against 'police state' arsenal
John
Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, said he was
contacted by a group of residents from Nampa, Idaho, and asked to
urge their elected leaders to send the town’s military-grade
equipment back where it belongs — to the Pentagon. Of particular
concern is a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP,
acquired with grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Stand
with Hong Kong
President
Obama praised Hong Kong’s “open system” this week during a
private meeting with China’s foreign minister. Unfortunately, Hong
Kong doesn’t yet have an open system, and President Obama has been
disconcertingly quiet about the fact that the Chinese government is
shutting the door to the possibility of one.
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Denver
school board refuses to drop curriculum review that promotes
patriotism
Students
and parents say they will renew protests Friday after a suburban
Denver school board refused to back off a proposed review of a U.S.
history course with a goal of promoting patriotism and downplaying
disorder.
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Carey
protest silent, just like cops who shot her
The
family of the late Miriam Carey has now had to endure a year of
silence from officials who have not said why she was shot dead by
Secret Service agents and Capitol Police on Oct. 13, 2013.
A
full year without a clear explanation of what happened and why.
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MOMS
demand swatting
The
injunction was a particularly colorful one, but the idea behind it,
alas, is not as uncommon as one might wish. “I see you #opencarry
with a gun in public,” a man named “joe villa” threatened
earlier this week, “i’m calling the cops. psycho behaving
erratic. make your day.” A translation for the more literate among
us: “The law be damned; exercise your rights under the law and I’ll
threaten your life.”
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