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I found this old blog entry that seems highly relevant to the current US presidential election. It seems to me that it would be useful for all journalists and biased political hacks posing as journalists and analysts to visit the Project Implicit lab and voluntarily disclose the results so that consumers can see how implicit biases might affect the news and analyses.
p.s. After posting this, I went to the site and found that they now have an Obama-McCain implicit bias test in addition to the previous race, gender, ethnic, age, etc. implicit cultural bias tests. . . and whereas it found me to be racially neutral in my earlier experience with the site, it did accurately detect my strong preference towards one of the presumptive party nominees.

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truthier words never spoken.

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/63858/

Polemic in reference to Michael Medved's "Inconvenient Truths" regarding slavery and why the US brand of slavery was only following a rich Greco-Roman civilization/cultural heritage. Only thing missing was Barbara Bush's comment about Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston football stadium indicating that most of them were underprivileged, so this was working out well for them. Although the argument that African slaves benefited from their exposure to Western civilization was put forth by Medved....

tags: pain politics culture slavery apologists nonapologists idiots michaelmedved torture stupidty capitalism neurologicalpain

Cheney: Congressional probe of attorneys' firings 'a witch hunt'

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/31/cheney.lkl/index.html?

Wiccans have served in the US military and

On July 4th 2007, America's first VA-issued interfaith headstone containing both a Wiccan Pentacle and a Christian Cross will be dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery in a national interfaith memorial service for Wiccan priestess Jan Deanna O'Rourke of Florida. (http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_article.html?a=usfl&id=11868)

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Ted Rall's blog has a great suggestion from one of his readers.
Scroll down to Friday, December 15, 2006 to see the suggestion.

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