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... would you find Country Joe McDonald serving as chairman over the Veteran's Day ceremonies. And fighting over whether or not one of the co-founders of Gold Star Families should be the "keynote" speaker, no less....

Jesse experiences an earthquake....

Body chipped from glacier likely a WWII airman

The only problem the Chief has with this is NOT the factual circumstances of the story itself, but rather with the journalistic caution.

"...Likely a WWII Airman."

Well now. This is hard. Human remains were found in a cake of ice. 13000 ft up the mountainside. Wearing WWII Army uniform, flight suit, and parachute. Had obviously been up there for some period of time. NOW - what are the possibilities. WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet-nam era, or Civilian?

Hmmmmmm? (Think, think!) A WWII outfit? Well now, we can say he was
"...Likely a WWII Airman." Phew! Anything to avoid coming to a simple conclusion based on clear factual evidence, which might set a bad journalistic precedent for the rest of the media.

In fairness, the DC Times is generally a cut above the rest of the MSM - but this is NOT one of their higher moments - maybe that's why it struck my attention.

Bottom 3rd: This has really been a fine series so far. Both clubs are well managed and play hard, and there's been good pitching but there's also been some quality offense. ONe thing that I can definitely say now is...

An intrepid reader sent this link, to Citizens for Global Solutions. Once you get there, hit the link for Watch My Funny Video. You will see a short cartoon about a character called U.N. Man. It is so astonishingly goofy,...

In an earlier post on free speech, I suggested on possible case in which a university might be justified in interfering with a Professor's expression of his or her opinions. The case was a professor who openly advocated genocide. Well,...

Critics of Professor Schaff and myself have been making a rather amazing argument: that a college professor can be forced to choose between his job and the free expression of his political opinions, should his colleagues or the administration conclude...

Argus Leader:Commercial red meat production in South Dakota during September was up 1 percent from a year ago, according to the state Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in South Dakota totaled 87.3 million pounds for September, an increase of 5 percent...

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