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Make Your Own Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches at Home
Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches are renowned for their juiciness and crisp, perfectly seasoned crust. However, Chick-Fil-A the establishment has also recently become notorious for making offensive anti-gay remarks. Whether you want to keep your food dollars elsewhere or not, we can all agree that making awesome chicken sandwiches at home is a good thing. More »
Grab Over 80 Free Ebooks from Microsoft and Learn Something Tech-y
Microsoft's MSDN blog has released a boatload of free ebooks on a range of technologies and programs, including a power users guide for Windows 7, programming Windows 8 apps and Windows Phone 7, SQL Server tutorials, and much more. More »
Chick-fil-A sparks new controversy with Berenstain Bears giveaway
The good news for Chick-fil-A? It now has a replacement for the Jim Henson puppets that were pulled from its children’s meals.
Quick and Curious Facts About the Mars Science Laboratory Mission
Since launching in November 2011, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been on a 560 million-kilometer (350 million-mile) journey to the Red Planet, with landing scheduled for late Sunday August 5 or early Monday August 6, depending on where you live on Earth. The Curiosity rover has been tucked away cozily into a spacecraft for safekeeping during flight, but when it reaches Mars surface it will encounter tough and frigid conditions, all in the name of science. This is NASA’s fourth rover mission to Mars, and its goal is to determine the planet’s past — and present — potential for habitabi

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No More Cups of Tea: Terrorism Research and the Law
This is a guest post from Tanisha Fazal, a political science professor at Columbia University, and Jessica Martini, a human rights and international trade attorney based in New York City. ———- To conduct research on terrorism and insurgency, it’s best to be able to talk to people.  Combing through incident reports is helpful, but often an informal conversation over a cup of tea is as, if not
Syria's Olympian Tragedy and the New Middle East
The struggle for Syria is forging a new Middle East. Summer Olympics are often used by desperate, repressive, time-expired regimes to act repressively. The Russians invaded Georgia in the midst of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now, the Assad regime is attacking Syria’s largest city Aleppo. Some estimates suggest up to 200,000 people have already been killed in the war with the UN estimating anoth
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Pepe Escobar Weighs In On Prince Bandar Bush's Death
Journalist Pepe Escobar speculates on the death of Prince Bandar Bush in his article, "Where is Prince Bandar?" He writes: "There are also problems with a Syrian death squad being able to strike Riyadh's inner sanctum. But Iranian intelligence could certainly pull this off. As for Debka's

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The Battle for Syria with Syrian Girl
Tonight we talk to Syrian Girl about the latest in Syria, from the “battle for Aleppo” to the moves toward all-out sectarian war. We discuss the US Government’s own “Guide to the Syrian People,” the outside influence of the Freemasons, the Zionists, and other groups, and the real endgame for the region.
Corbett Report Radio 187 – The Battle for Syria with Syrian Girl
Tonight we talk to Syrian Girl about the latest in Syria, from the “battle for Aleppo” to the moves toward all-out sectarian war. We discuss the US Government’s own “Guide to the Syrian People,” the outside influence of the Freemasons, the Zionists, and other groups, and the real endgame for the region.


Court Favors Indigenous Community in Decade-Long Struggle Against Oil-drilling in Ecuador
Inter-American Human Rights Court finds Ecuadorean govt guilty of violating physical and cultural wellbeing of the Sarayaku people


August 1 2012 Enbridge won’t be allowed to resume oil transmission in its leaky Wisconsin pipeline until it can prove it’s safe, according to a U.S. government order. The pipeline, which carries Canadian crude oil to refineries in the Chicago area, ruptured on Friday and spilled about 1,200 barrels (190,000 litres) onto farmland, forcing the evacuation of two homes and threatening a drinking-water

Habitable Worlds around White Dwarf Stars?
Not all that long ago we assumed habitable planets needed a star like our Sun to thrive, but that view has continued to evolve. M-class red dwarfs may account for as many as 80 percent of the stars in our galaxy, making habitable worlds potentially more numerous around them than anywhere. And let’s extend our notion of habitability to what Luca Fossati (The Open University, UK) and colleagues call

O American Secularists Really Want a Christian Crusade?
by Kevin C. Caffrey:    Freedom of religion is seen from a different perspective.The attacks on Christianity are not new and this is a caveat for the secularists.
Tea Party and Palin win again!
by Mark Vogl:    Ted Cruz wins in Texas, defeating the Texas insiders who were supporting David Dewhurst for GOP US Senate Seat.
Thought Nazis
by Kenn Jacobine:    On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.


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In preparation for this piece, I spent a few days marinating in all things Oprah. It was shameless. I read back issues of O: The Oprah Magazine on the subway, played her YouTube interviews without headphones, and left “Oprah’s Life Work Tools” browser tabs open for the world to see. I was looking for quick hits, anecdotes to frame a polemic around, and enough secondary analysis and quotes to f

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Militarized Police A Cause That Left And Right Can Agree About—Anaheim Police Shot A Man In The Back
Our increasingly militarized police are more and more out-of-control in this nation. Above you see a picture from Occupy Los Angeles showing ongoing protests regarding militarized police in Anaheim, California. Anaheim police shot a man in the back for no good reason at all. Militarized police would seem to be an issue that folks on both the left and right would be concerned about. Both governmen


Let's do something very British: make the best of it.
I apologise in advance if this shocks anyone, but I have a confession to make. I didn't watch the opening ceremony live. I'll just let that sink in for a second.Yes, it's true. I took one look at the pre-released extract of the nurses dancing and thought, nope, don't think I'll bother. And on that, I stand by my initial opinion: fine sentiment, not quite as good execution. As for the rest, we

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