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Green and dirty
faustasblog.com - 29 days ago
Green and dirty
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In order to “save the earth” apparently we must all give up basic sanitation. Last year it was the Manhattan couple that stopped using toilet paper . Ugh. This year it’s the fool feeling guilty about taking hot showers . After deluging us with statistics about how ...
slate.com - 27 days ago
Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal.
— slate.com — "I think this would be a good time for a beer," Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing... a bill that made 3.2-percent lager legal again, some months ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition. I hope Barack Obama will come up with some comparably witty ... (more) Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will ...

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Could Rush and Fox News Have Helped Save Cuba?
americanthinker.com - 10/23/2009
Could Rush and Fox News Have Helped Save Cuba?
— americanthinker.com — In wistful moods, I often wonder what Cuba, might look like today if talk radio, Fox News... and the web had been around to mount a counterattack against Castro's media propagandists. (more) Could Rush and Fox News Have Helped Save Cuba?

Comments vote down Doug Ross @ Journal found this 10/23/2009found this
breitbart.com - 10/26/2009
Sean Penn heads to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro: report
— breitbart.com — Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel... Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday. "Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story ... (more) Sean Penn heads to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro: report

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