An interesting comparison: In 1948, Truman issued an executive order integrating the armed forces. That same year Gallup found that only 13 percent of Americans supported "having Negro and white troops throughout the U.S. armed services live and work together."... Full story...
The turkey wasn't always so dumb: Generally considered cranially vacant even for a bird—the turkey wasn’t always such a buffoon.
Blake Hurst gives thanks: If the movie “Food, Inc.” can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap.
A very useful reminder of the long view, in these days of precipitous decline after the disastrous, bankrupting, morale-breaking over-reach of the Bush-Cheney years: Even if America is exhausted, worn out and a shadow of her former self, from having.
And why I will not relent on Palin and the danger she represents: "The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions -- racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war -- which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as.
Hank Hyena, writing for transhumanist magazine H+, imagines the consequences of lab grown meat: In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm.
A military wife reflects: I remember the year we celebrated Thanksgiving on a Sunday evening in October.
Jennifer Reese raised her own turkeys this year: The heritage bird runs very fast around the yard first thing in the morning, flapping his wings and trilling musically while the factory-bred girl stands there, calm and blinking.
A reader writes: I respectfully disagree with your reader who spells out what they describe as the cynical and political thought process behind the argument in very honest fashion.
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