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Department of Homeland Decency
After years of hard work, DOHD researchers, working closely with faith-based scientists, philosophers, theologians, and lobbyists, have finished work on the manual that will change your lives: The Department of Homeland Decency's Rules and Regulations Manual.
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Free State Project

Where will tomorrow find Tino Gonzales? He will be somewhere at his home, doing what he does best: writing, singing, and playing his original songs for his fans. No small task, though, as the world is his home and all of mankind is his audience. And, as Tino would say, "Thanks for visiting the web site, and peace and happiness to you always."
Visit the website called HappySysiphus.com.
Morons.org is a web community dedicated to spotlighting the misdeeds of organizations that wish to crush the liberties of others for their own social convenience, with a special focus on gay rights issues; provides news, commentary, and open discussion forums.

"The aptly-named morons.org
is an obscenity-laced screed..."
Robert P. Lockwood,
Catholic League director of research
Namnesia Antidote       A Proud Liberal
and This Day in History

I was a child in the sixties
When dreams could be held through TV
We had Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther
And, I believed, I believed . . . I BELIEVED
It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go
Words & Music by Nanci Griffith
© 1989 Ponder Heart Music/Irving Music Inc. (BMI)

Being A Proud Liberal means I STILL believe. I see us repeating the same mistakes that have occurred in History. Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. I try to be a voice to stop the insanity. Come take a look.

Namnesia Antidote       A Proud Liberal
and This Day in History
www.nwowatcher.com       www.revradio.org
Something's hiding beneath the bed,
through your dreams and in your head.
A lurking thing of shadow-space,
pushing through the ancient place.
      The mountain top from whence it came,
      a shapeless thing without a name.
      It roams and sneaks, and falls and climbs;
      its darkness deep, its light sublime.
In the closet and on the roof,
it scatters there with jagged tooth.
To eat and claw and bite and maim,
to make you a part of its secret game
of hide and seek, and stalk and prey,
a deceptive song its claim to fame.
      The Siren's tune, the Gorgon's eyes,
      pulls us in to mesmerize.
      So find out now what's creeping there,
      tune out it's music, avoid its stare.
      Please see us soon to find the truth,
      about the ancient thing who devours youth.
www.nwowatcher.com       www.revradio.org
Omens of Calamaties to Come
Order Out of Chaos, by Paul Joseph Watson:
No longer is the New World Order a shadowy enemy lurking on the horizon, it is in our faces and the proof is everywhere. The dark empire of world government is in the final stages of its construction. This book is one of many keys you will need to unlock the door and shine the burning light of freedom upon the twisted souls of the Globalists.
Poor libraries need your help!
punditman.blogspot.com
Punditman: Cutting through fog, exposing lies, and unraveling the Media-Industrial Complex.
RealNewsLinks.com
www.richard-t-osborne.com
SourDove.com -- The Worst Site on the Web
Southern California Health Resources
The Specious Report: You will laugh.
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Like the URL says, this website is about unknown news.

We present a once-weekly wrap-up of news that was underplayed, ignored, or simply lost in the non-stop news cycle. Our news comes only from mainstream, professional journalists or (rarely) other sources we trust entirely, with no nuttiness and no interest in the same news you see everywhere else.

What we believe

We believe in liberty and justice for all, so of course, we oppose many US government policies. This doesn't mean we're anti-American, redneck scum, pinko commies, militia members, or terrorist-sympathizers. It means we believe in freedom, as more than merely a cliché.

We believe you have the right to live your own life as you choose, and others have the equal right to live their lives as they choose. It's not complicated.

We believe freedom leads to peace, progress, and prosperity, while its opposite -- oppression -- leads to war, terrorism, poverty, and misery.

We believe it's preposterously stupid to hate people because of their appearance, their race or nationality, their religion or lack of religion, how they have sex with other consenting adults, etc. There are far more apropos reasons to hate most people.

We believe in questioning ourselves, our assumptions, each other -- and we especially believe in questioning authority (the more authority, the more questions). We believe obedience is a fine quality in dogs and young children, but not in adults.

Like America's right-wingers, we believe in individual responsibility, hard work to get ahead, and stern punishment for serious crimes. We believe big government should not be blindly trusted.

But unlike most right-wing leaders, we mean it.

Like America's left-wingers, we believe in equal treatment under law, war as a last (not first) resort, and sensible stewardship of natural resources. We believe big business should not be blindly trusted.

But unlike most left-wing leaders, we mean it.

Like libertarians, we believe it's wrong and reprehensible to arrest people for what they think, believe, look like, wear, eat, smoke, drink, inhale, inject, or otherwise do to themselves.

But unlike many libertarians, we're not obsessed with the gold standard, we don't believe incorporation is humanity's highest achievement, and we don't believe everything in life comes down to dollars and cents. We've read and enjoyed Ayn Rand's novels, but we understand that they're works of fiction.

We're skeptical, and we're sick of so-called 'journalists' who aren't skeptical at all.

A reader asks, what are our solutions?

We propose no solutions except common sense, which is never common. We like the principles of democracy, and the ideals broadly described as 'American'. The US Constitution is a fine and workable framework for solutions, when it's actually read and thoughtfully understood by intelligent statesmen and women. So, no manifestos from us. We don't dream that big, and if there's one thing the world doesn't need it's yet another manifesto.

Our suggestion is: think.

A fact-based instead of faith-based approach leads to solutions for most of the recurring issues of our time, from abortion to global climate change, pollution to universal health care, careful but real regulation of industry and economy, hunger, war, terror, human rights for humans not for corporations, science not religious doctrine in public schools, equal protection and prosecution under law, etc. Approach problems without glorifying stupidity, without demonizing intelligence, and answers usually come into focus.

These pages are published by Harry and Helen Highwater, happily married low-income nom de plumes and rabble-rousers from Madison, Wisconsin (with a few friends scattered around the world helping out).

We try to spotlight news that hasn't gotten enough (or appropriate) attention in American media, along with our opinions and yours.

We bang our keyboards against the wall, because it doesn't hurt as much as banging our heads.