Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Are Jews, Americans, and other Westeners likely to dialogue successfully with the Arab world? Why do you think they can, or not? Can everyone just sit down and calmly discuss heated, political issues?
#3223 - Jordanian TV Debate on the Syrian Crisis Degenerates into a Brawl
The Internet, JoSat TV (Jordan) - November 29, 2011 - 05:10
The debate, which focused on the crisis in Syria, featured Muhammad As’ad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian-Jordanian politician of the Umma movement, and Mahmoud Al-Bastanjani, a member of the Jordanian Ba’th Party, hurling insults and eventually leaping out of their chairs to physically attack one another.
Is studying rap a useful subject to learn when preparing for the work world? Will the subject help you get a job after graduation? Why or why not? Is this a good subject for a Roman Catholic University to offer?
A new report recently released by the Family Research Council and Liberty Institute confirms that anti-Christian hostility is rising across the nation’s public square, in schools and in government.
“America today would be unrecognizable to our founders. Our first freedom is facing a relentless onslaught from well-funded and aggressive groups and individuals who are using the courts, Congress, and the vast federal bureaucracy to suppress and limit religious freedom,” said a summary of the report from Tony Perkins, president of the FRC, and Kelly Shackelford, president of Liberty Institute.
In fact, “The Obama administration no longer even speaks of freedom of religion; now it is only ‘freedom of worship.’ This radical departure is one that threatens to make true religious liberty vulnerable, conditional, and limited.
The report documents cases, for example:
Of a federal judge who threatened “incarceration” for a high school valedictorian unless she censored references to Jesus in her graduation speech
A city prohibition to seniors who wanted to pray before meals
A judge’s opinion that prayers before a state legislative meeting could reference Allah, but not Jesus
A state attempt to regulate what religious seminaries could teach
The Obama administration argument before the Supreme Court that the federal government can tell churches which pastors it can hire or fire
A ban from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to references to Jesus in veterans’ funeral ceremonies
Is flying the Confederate flag protected by the First Amendment? Should a 19-year old college student be forced to take down his flag? Does the Confederate flag mean racism?
The University of South Carolina Beaufort told 19-year-old Byron Thomas on Thursday he could keep the flag up, after the freshman was told two weeks ago to remove it because of student complaints. University spokeswoman Candace Brasseur told the Beaufort Gazette Thomas was initially asked to remove the flag because it violates a student code of conduct discouraging bigotry, but the school’s legal counsel ultimately advised the university to allow him to display the flag. When he was first told in November to take the flag down, Thomas posted a four-minute video on YouTube saying he views the Confederate flag as a sign of Southern pride, not of racism, and was not going to remove it. The video was re-posted on CNN’s iReport, where it has been viewed more than 70,000 times. “It’s not racist for me,” Thomas, a Georgia native, said in the video. “All it is is a symbol that I see as a sign of respect, and people don’t want to see it that way.” Before the school relented, Thomas said he felt his First Amendment rights were being violated, and said he considered legal action if he was not allowed to display the flag. Byron Thomas uploaded a video about his decision not to remove the flag, which was viewed more than 70,000 times. (Image source: YouTube) A class project made him come to the realization that the flag’s real meaning has been hijacked, he told the Associated Press in an interview. He said he wants people to carefully consider issues of race and not just have knee-jerk reactions to symbols. “When I look at this flag, I don’t see racism. I see respect, Southern pride,” he told the AP. “This flag was seen as a communication symbol” during the Civil War. Thomas said he also dislikes the term “African American” because it makes him feel like a half-citizen. “I was not born in Africa, I was born in Augusta, Georgia,” he said in the video. Thomas said he’s received a huge outpouring of support since the ordeal began. “I’ve been getting a lot of support from people. My generation is interested in freedom of speech,” Thomas said. He said he talked to his parents — who grew up amid the Civil Rights movement — once the uproar started and said they weren’t happy about his decision to display it, though that probably won’t keep him from putting it up again. “I don’t want to make my parents mad,” he said. “I may wait until Monday to put it up.”
BLACK COLLEGE STUDENT WINS FIGHT TO DISPLAY CONFEDERATE FLAG IN DORM ROOM
The list of musicians in the promotional video are Michael Monroe and Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls) Martin Chambers (The Pretenders), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Casino Steel (The Boys, Johnny Cash, Carlene Carter), Darrell Bath (The Crybabys and Dogs D'Amour) and Verden Allen (Mott The Hoople. Ian Hunter).
Video directed by renowned film director Tony Klinger (Get Carter, Shout At The Devil, Deep Purple Over Japan, The Kids are Alright - The Who).
A town hall meeting with Michele Bachmann at the Waverly Pizza Ranch in Iowa took a twist Wednesday when a student questioned the GOP presidential contender’s views on same-sex marriage and of what she would do for the gay and lesbian community as president.
“All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights,” Bachmann told 16-year-old Jane Schmidt, who identified herself as a member of the school’s GSA, the alliance advocating for the rights of gay and straight students.
“There shouldn’t be any special rights or any special set of criteria,” Bachmann continued. “We all have the same civil rights. ”
But that didn’t sit well with the student, who said that members of the gay and lesbian community do not have the same rights because they can’t get married.
In response, Bachmann said, “There are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices.”
“There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.”
Bachmann reiterated that marriage is between a “man and a woman” and that it is still “the law of the land.”
Iowa Caucuses provides a partial transcript of the exchange below:
JANE SCHMIDT: One of my main concerns is government support for the LGBT community. So my question is what would you do to protect GSAs in high school and support the LGBT community.
BACHMANN: Well, number one, all of us as Americans have the same rights. The same civil rights. And so that’s really what government’s role is, to protect our civil rights. There shouldn’t be any special rights or special set of criteria based upon people’s preferences. We all have the same civil rights.
JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can’t same-sex couples get married?
BACHMANN: They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.
JANE SCHMIDT: Why can’t a man marry a man?
BACHMANN: Because that’s not the law of the land.
JANE SCHMIDT: So heterosexual couples have a privilege.
BACHMANN: No, they have the same opportunity under the law. There is no right to same-sex marriage.
JANE SCHMIDT: So you won’t support the LGBT community?
BACHMANN: No, I said that there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.
ELLA NEWELL, a junior at Waverly High School: Wouldn’t heterosexual couples, if they were given a privilege then, that gay couples aren’t, like given that privilege to get married, but heterosexual couples are given a privilege to get married?
BACHMANN: Remember every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.
News media bias by the lamestream outlets include this gem on a hot mic where reporter David Chalian of Yahoo News said that Ann and Mitt Romney are "happy to have a party with black people drowning."
#3550 - Sheik Bassam Al-Kayed, Head of the Islamic Scholars Association in Lebanon: The Jews Are Behind Almost All Civil Strife in the World
Al-Iman TV (Lebanon) - August 10, 2012 - 00:43
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A short film that tells the story behind the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster. Its origins at the beginning of WWII and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England in 2000, becoming one of the iconic images of the 21st century. Film, music, script and narration by Temujin Doran. http://www.studiocanoe.com/index.php?/profile/ Concept and production by Nation. http://www.wearenation.co.uk/
Melissa Ohden is alive in spite of an abortion procedure. Abortion opponents have long decried Obama’s record in the Illinois legislature on regulating late-term abortions, when he was in the state Senate, Obama voted to deny basic constitutional protections for babies born alive from an abortion – not once, but four times.
Louisiana teacher Robert Duncan is fighting for his job at Boyet Junior High School after displaying his students’ pictures of Obama in the hallway outside his classroom. Several were deemed racist and offensive.
A new ad titled, “Bow to Nobody,” takes aim at Obama and deferring to America’s enemies. The video, released by “Special Operations for America” (SOFA), a super PAC led by former Navy SEALs, will be unveiled Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. The ad culminates in the display of a now-infamous photo of the president bowing to the Saudi king. The ad will be featured at an event titled, “Defending Our Defenders: A Salute to the United States Military.”
Jibril Hough and Imam Siraj Wahhaj are leaders in the separatist American Islamist movement. The mosque of Hough is owned by the North American Islamic Trust, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial as one of the entities “who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.” Wahhaj, the “Grand Imam” for Jumah at the DNC, has a number of troubling ties to dangerous radicals. In the early 1990′s he sponsored talks by “the Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel-Rahman in New York and New Jersey mosques, and told his followers that the United States will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” Wahhaj says it his duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran.
This is a 27 point fall from 2008. Seventy four percent (74%) of Catholic men over 50 refuse to support Obama. This explains why Cardinal Dolan the leader of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was told he is not welcome to attend the Democrats’ convention.
described as a mental disease wherein free thinkers, non-conformists, civil disobedience supporters, those who question authority and are perceived as being hostile toward the government are labeled mentally ill.
Psychiatrics claim that sufferers have “a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months” which includes:
• Persistent stubbornness
• Resistance to directions
• Unwillingness to go along with the crowd
• Deliberately annoying others
• Testing limits by ignoring orders
This footage uploaded by the user syreeves was shot from the 28th floor of the Wells Fargo Building on 90 S. and 7th St. “Yep, that’s the view outside my window,” he says:
Syreeves described the activity as three helicopters in single file that “climbed to a hover over the building, held it for about 10 seconds apiece and then took off down Marquette Ave.”
This video shows the helicopters flying around the Hennepin Avenue Bridge:
Here’s a video from the same location uploaded by the same YouTube user — G20Detainee — that shows the helicopters flying more in formation:
Religious and political groups in the United States have traditionally been free to choose their leaders and members without interference from authorities. That's no longer true at Vanderbilt University, where the school banned belief-based groups from making belief-based decisions about their members and leaders and drove 13 religious student groups off of campus. In this video, FIRE talks to Vanderbilt students and faculty about how this decision is affecting them. Country music legend Larry Gatlin and author and scholar Jonathan Rauch also explain why Vanderbilt has done both its students and the idea of pluralism itself a profound disservice.
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Directed by Ted Balaker. Camera by Hawk Jensen, Kyle Laffey, Benjamin Gaskell, and Dustin Oakly. Music by Larry Gatlin ("Don't Tread on Me"), and Myles Cochran ("Something Pretty," "Getting Stronger," "Another Dream in Blue," and "Gold and Rose"). Cochran recordings courtesy of Magnatune.
Ya baby, run up the debt as you strip it all off. Economics stripped bare ...
Written & performed by ... Dominic Frisby ( http://dominicfrisby.com/ )
Edited & directed by ... Peter Maxwell ( http://www.petermaxwellphotography.co.uk/ )
Dancers .... Peggy De Lune and Scarlett Belle (http://www.peggydelune.com/)
Singer ... Ian Virgo
Choreography ... Peggy De Lune (http://www.peggydelune.com/)
Audio mixed by ... Adrian Sear at Soundtracks ( http://soundtracks.co.uk/ )
From the original ... 'Sex Bomb', by Guendogdu, Mustafa, Rennalls, Errol, sung by Tom Jones, published by Universal. (Thank you)
LYRICS here - http://dominicfrisby.com/films/debt-bomb-2
Consumers already pay a fee on their landline and cellular phone bills to support the FCC's Universal Service Fund. The fund was created to ensure that everyone in the country has access to telephone service, even if they live in remote areas.
Here's the I.N.A. site :
http://www.ina.fr/media/television/doss ... 31.fr.html
Footage from two different tV shows can be easily found. One from the mid 70's called "pop 2" and one from the late 70's early 80's called "chorus".
On topic on this forume are :
Mott the hoople live at "la taverne de l'olympia 1971" and "Hunter Ronson at "le pavillon de Baltard" 1980.
here :
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/arts-d ... 71.fr.html
here :
http://www.ina.fr/recherche/recherche?s ... &vue=Video
Armstrong said immediately after the 1969 landing that he had been misquoted. He said he actually said, "That's one small step for `a' man."
In 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said.
Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, ran a software analysis looking at sound waves and found a wave that would have been the missing "a." It lasted 35 milliseconds, much too quick to be heard. The Smithsonian's space curator, Roger Launius, looked at the evidence and found it convincing.
On his MSNBC show, Bashir hosted GOP strategist Trey Hardin as part of a trio of guests. At one point, the conversation turned to Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey seemingly calling out those former service members who have criticized Obama for security leaks.
"I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born,” Mitt Romney said at a campaign rally in Michigan today. “Ann was born in Henry Ford hospital, I was born at Harper Hospital. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place we were born and raised." - Mitt Romney - 8/24/2012
‘YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT’: MEET THE TEXAS FAMILY THAT BUILT A CHICKEN EMPIRE & TEACHES THEIR EMPLOYEES ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION
Babe’s Chicken Dinner House has the same success story as many American start-ups. Humble beginnings, hard work and a great product leads to success. After starting with just one small country cooking restaurant in 1981, Paul and Mary Beth Vinyard have opened 11 more and now employ more than 1,300 people in the state of Texas.
Barack Obama is still the darling of the mainstream media, but not everyone is on board
His list of so-called achievements during his presidency is overshadowed by one of the poorest economic records of any U.S. president, particularly of an incumbent seeking re-election.
The Obama administration’s agenda has been anything but race-neutral, and has actually been race-driven.
Author Edward Klein’s bestselling book, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, illustrates the significant role that ideology, incompetence and radicalism play in the Obama administration.
Cliff Kincaid analyzes the Obama administration’s ploy to use mortgage policy to help ensure his re-election prospects this November.
Roger Aronoff’s analysis of Fast and Furious breaks down the scandal and describes how the media ignored it as long as they could.
The Solyndra scandal is the tip of the iceberg, where the Obama administration’s push for green jobs has resulted in few if any jobs for Americans.
The highlights of Chairman Donald Irvine’s analyses range from Chris Matthews’s faux pas to the White House referring to Fox News as “not really news.”
James Davis’s piece, “The Cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis,” details the problems of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how their housing policies caused the housing bubble to collapse.
Heelstones, Cursus and Prehistoric Astronomy - a visualisation of the University of Birmingham's latest findings at StoneHenge (courtesy of the University's VISTA centre)
Lubbock County Judge Tom Head told KJTV-TV on Monday that a 1.7 cent tax increase for the next fiscal year is necessary to prepare for the “worst case scenario: civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe.”
Neil Barofsky, the former U.S. Treasury Inspector General who oversaw TARP, appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday to discuss his new book, “Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.”
The lamestream media and the Obama regime work hand in hand against the American people.
This comes from a French TV show from the early 80's called "chorus". French public TV. Each week, 35 minutes of live music. The French TV archives are owned by one organization called "I.N.A. " (as in "national institute of audio-visual arts") and it is 100% legal and official.
There used to be two halves in this show, hosted ny Antoine De Caunes who i believe is well known in the UK, with some sort of a talk show in between where they'd talk about the new records and stuff.
The only "flaw" with this site comes from the fact that once you bought the show (here 2.99 € for the two halves) instead of "downloading" the file you have to right-click on it as in "record the target".
Watching this video you'll hear that Ronson is "guitarist ex-Bowie and ex-Dylan" and Hunter was the leader of "Moot The Hopple" but you may already know de Caunes' terrible French accent almost as heavy as mine. LOL.
Set list : Angeline, Laugh at me, Just anothet night, All the way from Memphis, I wish I was your mother and Bastard.
The HEX experiment: Determination of the neutral wind field from 120 to 185 km altitude near a stable premidnight auroral arc by triangulating the drift of rocket-deployed chemical trails
E. M. Wescott
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
H. Stenbaek-Nielsen
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
M. Conde
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Miguel Larsen
Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Dirk Lummerzheim
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
On 25 March 2003, Horizontal E-Region Experiment (HEX) released trimethyl aluminum trails from two rockets launched northward from Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks to map the vertical wind field near a stable premidnight auroral arc system. They deployed three trails of trimethyl aluminum chemical “puffs,” whose subsequent motion traced the prevailing wind field. This motion was determined using triangulation from four ground observation sites. Position and speed accuracies were estimated to be ∼1 km and a few meters per second, respectively. The first rocket followed a novel flat trajectory; it released a nearly horizontal trail of length 200 km, at an average altitude of ∼145 km. The second rocket was launched 19 min later and released two trails between 125 and 175 km altitude along a conventional steep trajectory. All puffs between 130 and 175 km altitude drifted geomagnetic westward, almost exactly parallel to the aurora. From prior observations and modeling, we had expected to observe convective upwelling near the arcs. We did not; vertical winds were essentially downward throughout the horizontal trail, with speeds between 0 and 20 m s−1. Although an abatement of downward flow was observed ∼40 km equatorward of the arcs, these data alone do not establish a causal relationship between the abatement and the arcs. Vertical speeds of ≤20 m s−1 are relatively modest. However, because the observed wind field would entrain air parcels in flow parallel to the arc system, even vertical speeds around 15 m s−1 could displace individual air parcels by several scale heights if they occurred all along the arcs.
Received 3 January 2005; accepted 12 May 2006; published 8 September 2006.
Citation: Wescott, E. M., H. Stenbaek-Nielsen, M. Conde, M. Larsen, and D. Lummerzheim (2006), The HEX experiment: Determination of the neutral wind field from 120 to 185 km altitude near a stable premidnight auroral arc by triangulating the drift of rocket-deployed chemical trails, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A09302, doi:10.1029/2005JA011002.
Former D.C. Union boss, Mike Golash, stated in a video, representing Chapter 689 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, organizing workers on the D.C. metro, had some points to state on-camera.
Parents of students at a Lake Charles, La. elementary school are upset over new technology that officials hope to use in the lunch room, believing it would expedite payment in the cafeteria line giving students more time to eat.
KPLC TV reported last week that Moss Bluff Elementary School officials sent a letter home to parents explaining a new system that would scan students’ palms, which in turn would identify the student and the subsequent individual payment plan (thus speeding up the line).
EJ Dionne defended Obama's budget on Meet The Press yesterday, describing Obama’s budget plan – a budget plan which Dionne’s co-panelist, Tea Party advocate Ted Cruz, pointed out was unable to get even a single Democratic vote.
Earlier today, 26-year-old former U.S. Marine Brandon Raub was released from a psychiatric facility via a judge’s order, who ruled that the government had no legal grounds to hold him.
Tonight on Glenn Beck’s show on GBTV, soon-to-become TheBlazeTV, John Whitehead, Raub’s lead attorney and president of the Rutherford Institute, gave his first interview following his client’s release to discuss the case.
“No warrant for his arrest and no search warrant,” Whitehead replied. “They haven’t [charged him with a crime] and they’re not going to.”
The original story may be supplemented with what may be a trend against American citizens, Christians, and gun owners.
‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE:’ MARINE DETAINMENT STIRS FIRST AMENDMENT DEBATE
Adam Kokesh speaks with Brandon Raub, the former marine who has been kidnapped and held in a mental asylum for expressing opinions on 9/11 that run contrary to the official government version of events.
The Marine was held in Hopewell's John Randolph Medical Center since Thursday.
"I'm currently in John Randolph in the psychiatric ward being held against my will," Raub said in a telephone interview.
Former Marine arrested for exercising free speech.
Last night (Saturday) at approximately 7:30 pm, Brandon J. Raub, founder of the Richmond Liberty Movement, was arrested. When friends came home they witnessed Brandon being detained by the police, FBI, and the Secret Service. A video shows led away. Friends and family asked what had happened, they were told they were tipped off that Brandon had “posts” on his FB that led them to believe he was a danger to others and/or himself. Brandon believes 9/11 was an inside job and questions the actions of the government.
Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Prague High School and was named valedictorian but in her speech she stated:
‘How the h*** do I know?' As a result, the school has retained her diploma. She earned her diploma, completed all the state curriculum, got straight A’s and starts college in a few days on a full scholarship, making the administrators’ decision even more appalling to her family.
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SC Magazine: For IT Security Professionals;
Scahill, Jeremy, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated];
Schama, Simon, A History of Britain, At the Edge of the World 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D.;
Scheuer, Michael, Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War On Terror;
Scheuer, Michael, Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq;
Scheuer, Michael, Osama Bin Laden;
Scheuer, Michael, Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America;
Scholastic Instructor
Scholastic Parent & Child: The Joy of Family Living and Learning;
Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World As Will And Idea (Sony eReader);
Schug-Wille, Art of the Byzantine World;
Schulze, Hagen, Germany: A New History;
Schweizer, Peter, Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy---and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them;
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe;
Seagren, Eric, Secure Your Network for Free: Using Nmap, Wireshark, Snort, Nessus, and MRTG;
Security Technology & Design: The Security Executive's Resource for Systems Integration and Convergence;
Seibel, Peter, Coders at Work;
Sekunda N., & S. Northwood, Early Roman Armies;
Seneca: Naturales Quaestiones, Books II (Loeb Classical Library No. 450);
Sewall, Sarah, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual;
Sheppard, Ruth, Alexander the Great at War: His Army - His Battles - His Enemies;
Shinder, Jason, ed., The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later;
Sidebottom, Harry, Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction;
Sides, Hampton, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West;
Simkins, Michael, The Roman Army from Caesar to Trajan;
Sinchak, Steve, Hacking Windows Vista;
Smith, RJ, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown;
Software Development Times: The Industry Newspaper for Software Development Managers;
Software Test Performance;
Solomon, Norman, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death;
Song, Lolan, Innovation Together: Microsoft Research Asia Academic Research Collaboration;
Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays, tr. Robert Fagles;
Sound & Vision: The Consumer Electronics Authority;
Southern, Pat, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History;
Sri, Edward, A Biblical Walk Through the Mass: Understanding What We Say and Do In The Liturgy;
Sri, Edward, Men, Women and the Mystery of Love: Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love and Responsibility;
Stair, John Bettridge, Old Samoa; Or, Flotsam and Jetsam From the Pacific Ocean;
Starr, Chester G., The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 476: A Study in Survival;
Starr, John Bryan, Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture;
Stauffer, John, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln;
Steyn, Mark, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It;
Strassler, Robert B., The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories;
Strassler, Robert B., The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War;
Strassler, Robert B., The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika;
Strategy + Business;
Streete, Gail, Redeemed Bodies: Women Martyrs in Early Christianity;
Sullivan, James, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America;
Sumner, Graham, Roman Military Clothing (1) 100 BC-AD 200;
Sumner, Graham, Roman Military Clothing (2) AD 200-400;
Suskind, Ron, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11:
Swanston, Malcolm, Mapping History Battles and Campaigns;
Swiderski, Richard M., Quicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore, and Effects of Mercury;
Swiderski, Richard M., Quicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore, and Effects of Mercury;
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels;
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution;
Talley, Colin L., A History of Multiple Sclerosis;
Tawil, Camille, Brothers In Arms: The Story of al-Qa'ida and the Arab Jihadists;
Tech Briefs: Engineering Solutions for Design & Manufacturing;
Tech Net: The Microsoft Journal for IT Professionals;
Tech Partner: Gain a Competitive Edge Through Solutions Providers;
Technology & Learning: Ideas and Tools for Ed Tech Leaders;
Tenet, George, At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis;
Thackeray, W. M., Vanity Fair;
Thompson, Derrick & William Martin, Have Guitars ... Will Travel: A Journey Through the Beat Music Scene in Northampton 1957-66;
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina;
Trento, Joseph J., The Secret History of the CIA;
Twain, Mark, The Gilded Age: a Tale of Today;
Ungar, Craig, House of Bush House of Saud;
Unterberger, Richie, The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film;
VAR Business: Strategic Insight for Technology Integrators:
Virgil, The Aeneid
Virtualization Review: Powering the New IT Generation;
Visual Studio: Enterprise Solutions for .Net Development;
VON Magazine: Voice, Video & Vision;
Wall Street Technology: Business Innovation Powered by Technology;
Wallace, Robert, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda;
Wang, Wallace, Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won’t Tell You About the Internet;
Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization;
Warren, Robert Penn, All the King's Men;
Wasik, John F., Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream;
Weber, Karl, Editor, Lincoln: A President for the Ages;
Website Magazine: The Magazine for Website Success;
Weiner, Tim, Enemies: A History of the FBI;
Weiner, Tim, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA;
West, Bing, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq;
Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence;
Wilcox, Peter, Rome's Enemies (1) Germanics and Dacians;
Wise, Terence, Armies of the Carthaginian Wars 265 - 146 BC;
Wissner-Gross, What Colleges Don't Tell You (And Other Parents Don't Want You To Know) 272 Secrets For Getting Your Kid Into the Top Schools;
Wissner-Gross, What High Schools Don't Tell You;
Wolf, Naomi, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries;
Wolf, Naomi, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot;
Woodward, Bob, Plan of Attack;
Woodward, Bob, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House;
Wright, Lawrence, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11;
Wright-Porto, Heather, Beginning Google Blogger;
Xenophon, The Anabasis of Cyrus;
Yergin, Daniel, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power;
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.
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