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![If the Iraq War were a child, it would be in fourth grade.
Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War — Bill Bigelow, CommonDreams.org
A decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths — Peter Feaver, ForeignPolicy.com
10 Years of Iraq in Newsweek — Marcia Allert, Michael Keller, Sam Schlinkert, TheDailyBeast.com
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin — David Corn, MotherJones.com
A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most — Bobby Ghosh, Lightbox.Time.com
The Speechwriter: David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq — David Frum, TheDailyBeast.com
[PHOTO: Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
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If the Iraq War were a child, it would be in fourth grade.
Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War — Bill Bigelow, CommonDreams.org
A decade later and the Iraq debate is still contaminated with myths — Peter Feaver, ForeignPolicy.com
10 Years of Iraq in Newsweek — Marcia Allert, Michael Keller, Sam Schlinkert, TheDailyBeast.com
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin — David Corn, MotherJones.com
A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images That Moved Them Most — Bobby Ghosh, Lightbox.Time.com
The Speechwriter: David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq — David Frum, TheDailyBeast.com
[PHOTO: Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME ]
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Steubenville Roundup
or, “How to Make Yourself Sad”:The top 5 rape apologist reactions to the Steubenville rape verdict — Emily Mullen, RawStory.com (h/t randomactsofchaos)
How The Media Took Sides In The Steubenville Rape Case — Annie-Rose Strasser and Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress.org
CNN Reports On The ‘Promising Future’ of the Steubenville Rapists, Who Are ‘Very Good Students’ — Mallory Ortberg, Gawker.com
The Verdict: Steubenville Shows the Bond Between Jock Culture and Rape Culture — Dave Zirin, TheNation.com
CNN’s Not the Only One Peddling Sympathy for the Steubenville Rapists — Adam Clark Estes, TheAtlanticWire.com
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Not the hawk we expected to see at CPAC.
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“The New Black Panthers case was a gigantic distraction, a manufactured controversy meant to stoke outrage and damage the Obama administration politically. We’re only still talking about it because of adetermined effort on the part of conservative media figures, like Rubin, to force it into the news cycle.” —Simon Maloy, Media Matters For America, “Jennifer Rubin’s New Favorite Report Debunks Jennifer Rubin”
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“In December, I advanced nothing more than surrounding our schoolchildren with the same protection of our jewelry stores and sports stadiums.” -
Spotted at CPAC
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“When ejaculation occurs inside of a colon, it’s highly absorbant material. The cells do not have a barrier so the sperm and those enzymes enter into the bloodflow. When the enzymes enter into the bloodflow and the continued, prolonged environment — when that happens, these enzymes in the bloodflow, it causes what we know as AIDS.” -
March 12, 1933, FDR’s First Fireside Chat on the Banking Crisis
As one of his first acts to confront the worsening impact of the Great Depression, newly elected President Roosevelt declared a nation-wide bank holiday starting on March 6, 1933 effectively shutting down the American banking system following a month long run on their reserves. Roosevelt went on the radio in his first “fireside chat” to dispel rumors and explain his actions. When banks reopened on March 13th, the public lined up to redeposit their cash. The bank holiday, along with the Emergency Banking Act passed on March 9th, is credited with restoring public confidence in the banking sector.
(via npr)
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We are LIVE from the HuffPost Politics newroom in DC.
Zach Carter and Josh Hersh are currently talking drones with Wells Bennett, who blogs at LawfareBlog.com.
Next, Zach and Josh will speak with Greg Keller, Executive Director of the American Conservative Union.
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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill on a #veryuncomfortable airport encounter. (h/t The Hill)
