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The bad news seems to be that America's image throughout the Muslim world is continuing to erode, and that, " 70 percent of Palestinian respondents saying that suicide bombing that targets civilians in defense of Islam can be often, or at least sometimes, justified."
Stating the obvious Pew president, Andrew Kohut, called that "a very big number".

Here is the link to the transcript and video.

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These signs greeted commuters on I-80 in Berkeley today. (Thx Wonkette)

God there are not many days when I miss that commute, but today is one of them.

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One of their front organizations was called The American Liberty League. Eerie.

Here is the blurb:

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott [Bush]) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

One interesting quote from a scholar interviewed on the program:

"Most Americans back then cared more about security than about democracy."

Here is the link.

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You probably were not expecting that answer, but there it is. That and many more crucial elements of our extremely faulty airport security system are discusses here in an e-mail transmission to Patterico from Dave Mackett President, Airline Pilots Security Alliance

This is a wonderful example of how critical thinking seems more vital than ever, and perhaps rarer than ever as well.

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Here is the story line:

A toxic landfill recently began business just in front of your house! It smells! What are you going to do about it? How can you help others to avoid this same horrible fate?

Here is a link to the site.

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To fly or to drive: which leaves the smallest carbon footprint? That question is dealt with rather nicely in this article, Climate Change and Air Travel, from Tufts University.
Here are some simple, but effective suggestions they have:

If you can avoid traveling for business by using video and phone conferencing, do it!

If you have the option of taking the train instead of the plane or car, take the train!

If you can choose between local vacations and vacations somewhere far away in the tropics, stay local!

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Two inventors – one in France and another in Australia – are working on air-driven cars. These vehicles use compressed air to drive the motor. A hybrid engine using this technology will be able to go from New York to LA in a single tank of gas air. The exhaust pipe emits clean, breathable air.

Pretty cool. Here’s the 8-minute YouTube video.

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Thomas Klau, a writer for the Financial Times Deutschland, has an interesting view on how the impact of American’s view of the world through the prism of the Founders may be distorting not only how we see the world, but how we see ourselves as well.

The title of the article is: ‘Cult of the Founding Fathers' is Obscuring America’s Worldview. Here is one prominent bullet:

This allows the United States to persist in describing itself as the freest country on earth, although by nearly every objective criterion, most European nations are more liberal and free than the United States.

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