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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Boko Haram terrorists slaughter hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Nigerians; US cable news too busy in Paris

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Photo via The Telegraph Here are terrorists brutally murdering --burning alive!--not just dozens, but as many as two thousand human b...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A Whiter Shade of Male: Meet the GOP's 2016 Presidential Lineup 1.0

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From Sean Hannity comes the January 2015/FOX News version of the GOP's 2016 Presidential Offerings, fondly referred to--among lefty...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Thoughts on Paris #JeSuisCharlie

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To arms, comrades! #CharlieHebdo By Chilean political cartoonist Francisco J. Olea Writing, drawing, and publishing criticism of pe...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Florida's proposed Amendment 2, the Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative, begets advocacy group Kush Liberty

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As the November elections draw near, with Amendment 2--commonly known as the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative--getting plent...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Grand jury dismisses charges against fired TSA agent Jeno Mouton

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Former TSA agent Jeno Mouton worked for the agency for twelve years, often putting in overtime hours at George Bush Intercontinental Airp...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

TSA crime featured in Netflix series Orange is the New Black

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TSA is the new IRS. Allow me to explain. Throughout history, literature, cinema, television, and even religious texts have employed...
Friday, May 30, 2014

I'm on BBC World Radio, talking about Edward Snowden

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Greetings, all. I'm back at my blogging dashboard after an extended hiatus. Though I have been tweeting regularly in the interim, a...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Right wing radicals; Right wing terrorism

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The money quote, so to speak: what if, instead of yelling "Heil, Hitler!" , the Kansas City white supremacist who shot three pe...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

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Friends, family, and readers know I applaud Snowden's brave whistle blowing and feel he should be allowed to return to the United Sta...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

R.I.P. Pete Seeger, a great American

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Arlo Guthrie : I usually do a little meditation and prayer every night before I go to sleep - Just part of the routine. Last night, I...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Entitled, empowered, and indicted

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Photo  via. Former First Lady of Virginia Maureen McDonnell, aka The Honorable Mrs. Governor Ultrasound, can't be faulted for mere...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Welcome home, Scarface

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It was past ten when we arrived home from holiday last night, and the resident muscle-men were kind enough to haul all the bags and boxes...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

On Privacy

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Here is why intruding on my privacy, and the privacy of millions of other people living in America, is wrong on its face: it is not that I h...
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Monday, July 01, 2013

On Ed Snowden's "Oppressive Regime Tour"

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For those who argue--ridiculously--that Edward Snowden should have "faced the music" and stayed in the US rather than "tou...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Cinnamon-Chocolate Bat Cookies

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There are blue sugar crystals on that there bat. Chocolate Bats: The Legend . The tale begins about eighteen years ago, when Son One w...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Unwarranted email-snooping ruled unconstitutional in 2010

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  I was poking around in some 4th Amendment case law online and came across a relatively recent (2010) ruling (.pdf) by the United State...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Friday Frank: My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama and Willie The Pimp; Texas; 1984

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After having spent years searching for live video of Maestro playing My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (a sentimental favorite in our ho...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Deborah's Kiss off, Chick-fil-A Lighter, Tastier, and Same-Sex-Marriage-Friendly Milkshake

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I admit it: there was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when I was (operative word: was ) an enthusiastic fan of Chick-fil-A's d...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The highest court takes the low road

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Attention "Supremes": People are not experiments . People's lives are not experiments. People's families are not ex...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Washington Post "addresses" a few TSA matters

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In  a post today  by the normally clear-eyed Jonathan Capehart -- and in The Washington Post, no less -- you will see plenty of admirati...
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Deborah Newell
Born in England and educated there, as well as in Barbados, Honduras, and the United States. Received a Bachelor's from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in 1981. Created the blog litbrit in 2006. Lives with her husband, three sons, and several large and loyal attack dogs and trained-assassin felines, in sunny Florida, USA.
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