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“On the Charlie Rose programme in January, he recounted a story about a lecture he delivered in Israel a year before his appointment, telling of his involvement in Northern Ireland. Asked afterwards by a member of the audience about the length of the Northern Ireland conflict, Mitchell confirmed it had been 800 years. His questioner [...]

“On the Charlie Rose programme in January, he recounted a story about a lecture he delivered in Israel a year before his appointment, telling of his involvement in Northern Ireland. Asked afterwards by a member of the audience about the length of the Northern Ireland conflict, Mitchell confirmed it had been 800 years. His questioner [...]

Food prices up the most since 1984 The Associated Press (4/22/10) Wholesale prices rise in March as food costs jump Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years. But excluding food and energy, prices were nearly flat. The Labor Department said the Producer Price Index [...]

Offshore oil rig workers missing – or not – after explosion caused by blowout – or not The Times-Picayune (4/21/10) 11 oil rig workers still missing after explosion, Coast Guard says Twelve workers on an oil drilling rig that exploded and caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico late Tuesday are still missing today, the [...]

Military recruiter misconduct exposed KING5.com (4/19/10) Investigators: New documents reveal military recruiter misconduct New documents obtained by the KING 5 Investigators reveal stunning details about recruiter misconduct in the Washington National Guard. They expose the tactics of one “burned out” recruiter and raise questions about what the Guard did when it caught her and another [...]

Bestiality sex tourism busted at Exitpoint Stallions Seattle Times (4/16/10) Felon accused of running animal-sex farm in Whatcom County A Whatcom County man’s friendship and aggressive support for a man convicted in the infamous Enumclaw horse-sex case led to his arrest this week for allegedly operating a bestiality farm just south of the Canadian border, [...]

http://soundcloud.com A fine example of Web 2.0 doin’ its funky thang.  SoundCloud is a great way for musicians to share their stuff across multiple social networks.

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On the ‘Latest, Highest This is Hell!‘ we played the following interviews from 2009. Go ahead and  listen: live from Dublin, Julien Mercille is a Professor at the University College of Dublin lecturing in US foreign policy. Julien writes regularly for Foreign Policy in Focus. The week this interview took place, Julien had just posted [...]

Rights group asks Senegal to regulate abusive religious schools BBC News (4/15/10) HRW calls for end to abuse in Senegal Koranic schools Students at Koranic schools in Senegal are severely abused and subjected to slavery-like conditions, lobby group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says …

One Canadian province’s solar power can generate as much as all US nuclear reactors combined Science Daily (4/16/10) Solar Power in Ontario Could Produce Almost as Much Power as All U.S. Nuclear Reactors, Studies Find Solar power in southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost the same amount of power as all the nuclear [...]

Frightening video gets cops suspended WTOP.com (4/15/10) Four Prince George’s Police officers taken off duty EDITOR’S NOTE: The pictures within the image gallery are graphic. Discretion is advised. Four Prince George’s County Police officers have been taken off regular duty and three will be formally suspended for their role in a beating of a University [...]

It is safe to say that for the last thirty years the US left has ceded religious questions, and the concepts therein, to the right.  Liberal paeans to lust (Carter) and sin (Clinton) aside, it is just not discussed as much among activists and thinkers of a progressive bent.  The epitome of this trend is [...]