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The Current Israeli Palestinian Conflict Explained (VIDEO)
Israel vs. Palestine: The Conflict Explained Amid renewed fighting between Israel and the Palestinian territories, The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor offers a background on the decades-old conflict and the current escalation in the video, below. Tharoor begins by noting that “altogether, Israel and the Palestinian territories are the size of Maryland and have a population […]
Danny Nickerson’s simple birthday wish has unleashed an amazing response, and 100,000 letters have been delivered to the 6-year-old so far. Nickerson turned 6 on Friday, but he wasn’t interested in a big birthday party or lots of presents. Instead, he asked for cards. As The Daily Dot reports: “Nickerson, a Massachusetts native, was diagnosed […]
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Richard Nixon may be best known for the Watergate scandal and the consequences his administration suffered due to his recording of White House conversations. However, Nixon wasn’t the first president to record conversations. As BBC reports, Nixon got the idea from Lyndon Johnson, his predecessor, who believed he had an obligation to allow historians to […]
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Republicans like to spread around the myth that they are strong supporters of the military, and while it is true that they support military actions (often times without thinking matters through) they have never been supportive of our troops or at addressing their many concerns for themselves and their families. As far back as the […]
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The Washington Post Delivers A Knock-Out Punch To Sarah Palin
July 29, 2014The Washington Post delivered a knock-out punch to Sarah Palin on Monday in response to a Sunday post on her Facebook page calling out the Post. In her Facebook post, Palin challenged the Washington Post “To reclaim your credibility (and the mainstream media’s, at large), I challenge you to engage in the same aggressive investigative […]
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