How to Use Google's Ngram Viewer to Find the History of Words and Phrases

Google has introduced a tool it calls an Ngram Viewer that has gotten a great deal of attention from both technology gurus and word lovers.

Ngram viewer

Consider the mention of Christian and Jesus.

Christian and Jesus are in sharp decline during the 19th century.

Egyptian Shaykh: "Democracy Is a Bad, Backwards, and Retarded Idea"

In a video clip posted to YouTube on 17 June, Shaykh Sa'id 'Abd-al-'Azim explains that "democracy is a bad, backwards, and retarded idea," which he condemns for the freedoms it contains, which includes "the freedom to disbelieve in the Creator of Heaven and Earth." He also compared those who advocate democracy to the wicked people of Sodom. This clip was taken from an interview conducted on the Islamic satellite station al-Hafez on 4 June.

L.A. School District Tells Students Not To Do Homework

The Los Angeles Unified School District has drastically changed its homework policy, banning teachers from counting homework as more than 10 percent of a student’s grade. The reason? According to the LA Times, it has to deal with racial make-up of the district and its urban location.

John Stossel - The State Against Blacks, Walter Williams, Minimum Wage

Have big government "poverty measures" helped or hindered Blacks? Author-columnist-professor Dr. Walter E Williams joins John to explain.

Reagan vs. Keynes

Keynesians, Wrong and Dangerous

Cf. President Reagan, Champion Budget-Cutter

U.S. Doesn't Want Canadian Oil: China Will, Then Pollute

If the U.S. doesn't approve a required pipeline, China will and then will develop what environmentalists call "dirty oil," which they say increases greenhouse gas emissions.

Shariah Compliant Islamic Area for Major D.C. Complex

Shariah Compliant Area Won’t Lease to Banks, Bars

TSA orders woman, 95, to remove adult diaper during 45-minute security search.

TSA victim, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and dying of leukemia.

PANDEMONIUM IN PEORIA: MOB YELLS 'KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE'...

Peorians living in fear; this eye-witness account is from Paul Wilki.

As China Advances, America Declines

It is in the interest of cash-rich China to help resolve the eurozone debt crisis, but Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who is visiting Britain and Continental Europe, will want a share of the West’s buying power in return .

‘I’m not talking to you as a Republican; I’m talking to you as an American.’

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., is pulling out all the stops and dropping loads of common sense on Congress.

During a mark-up session of the House Workforce and Education Committee Wednesday, Kelly dressed down his Democratic colleagues for neglecting one of their central duties as members of Congress: planning a budget.

“It is irresponsible to sit here and continue to talk about a budget that you don’t like verses a budget you didn’t even have the courage to put before the public last fall,” he said. “Why? Because you didn’t have the stomach to do what was right because you had an election sitting in front of you.”

Reporter Arrested for Recording Public Meeting

Reason.tv’s Jim Epstein reports:

On June 22, 2011, I attended a meeting of the D.C. Taxi Commission for a story I’m currently working on about a proposed medallion system in the district. About half-an-hour into the meeting, I witnessed journalist Pete Tucker snap a still photo of the proceedings on his camera phone. A few minutes later, two police officers arrested Tucker. I filmed Tucker‘s arrest and the audience’s subsequent outrage using my iphone.

A few minutes later, as I was attempting to leave the building, I overheard the female officer who had arrested Tucker promise a woman, who I presumed to be an employee of the Taxi Commission, that she would confiscate my phone. Reason intern Kyle Blaine, overheard her say, “Do you want his phone? I can get his phone.” …

As I tried to leave, I was told by the same blond female officer to “stay put.” I told her I was leaving and attempted to exit the building. I was then surrounded by officers, and told to remain still or I would be arrested. I didn’t move, but I tried to get the attention of a group of cab drivers who were standing nearby. At this point I was arrested.

I spent the remainder of the day in a cell in the basement of the building. I was released at about 4PM.

All The President's Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative

As Barack Obama announces the beginning of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, a far bigger issue - one that goes to the heart of American history and government - remains unaddressed.

"That the President has the right to start a war at his pleasure is just completely divorced from the original meaning of the Constitution," says constitutional scholar Gene Healy.

President Bush declared a war on terror that could theoretically extend into any country accused of harboring terrorists, including the United States itself. President Obama not only expanded the war in Afghanistan soon after taking office, he decided to bomb Libya without consulting Congress.

Healy, author of The Cult of the Presidency and an analyst at the Cato Institute, offers a forceful critique of the increasingly expansive role of the president in not only conducting wars but in declaring them. While the Constitution delegates the declaration of war to Congress, Healy stresses that its members are usually more interested in "handing out the bacon and getting re-elected" than in being held accountable for the success and failure of military interventions.

Michael Ramsey, a constitutional scholar and law professor at the University of San Diego, believes that the Constitution grants the president fairly broad war powers, especially in response to attacks, but even he argues that President Obama's recent Libya intervention has no Constitutional justification.

Is this any way to run a country's foreign policy and military might?

Ramsey and Healy sat down with Reason.tv to discuss how presidential war powers have expanded over time - and whether that's a good thing for the United States and the rest of the world.

Produced and Edited by Zach Weissmueller; shot by Paul Feine, Josh Swain, and Jim Epstein.

Let Me Make Obama Perfectly Clear

Senator Obama in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina:

“However, I do believe that this tragedy makes it very clear that that the reserve should only be used in the event of an emergency, and that we shouldn’t be tapping the reserve to provide a small, short-term decrease in gas prices.”

Candidate Obama in 2008:

“I do not believe that we should use the strategic oil reserves at this point. I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said that we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve, but the strategic oil reserve, I think, has to be reserved for a genuine emergency. You have a situation, let’s say, where there was a major oil facility in Saudi Arabia that was destroyed as a consequence of terrorist acts, and you suddenly had huge amounts of oil taken out of the world market, we wouldn’t just be seeing $4-a-gallon oil. We could see a situation where entire sectors of the country had no oil to function at all. And that’s what the strategic oil reserve has to be for.”

Obama today:

Democrat Barack Obama called today for tapping the nation’s strategic oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices, a shift from his previous position on the issue.

Obama tomorrow:

“Magic 8 Ball, should we release oil from the nation’s strategic oil reserves?”

Christie defends ‘blunt’ remarks

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MIDDLECLASS WARFARE!! (Featuring Hater Hank)

The Obama Legacy

An attempt to show that our political elite is selling us down a river by devaluing our currency, thereby initiating inflation. Prices aren't going up because of corporate greed, the political elite all over the world are devaluing fiat currencies to pay for debt they created. Hence the movement to precious metals ... something no government can print at will. Be sure to watch the end.

Seattle Islamists Personal Ad: Seeks "Second Wife," "most oppressive place on this earth 'America,'" First wife sobs for "Perfect Muslim"

I am a very dedicated, strong, and intelligent Muslim, and I am looking for a second wife from in whom wouldn’t mind sharing me with my current wife being that we are in compliance with the sunnah, and want to make a life from the most oppressive place on this earth “America ". I have been in Islam for over 6 years, originally from America, 30 years old, fully obedient to Allah, looking for a wife with intelligence, and who isn’t attached to this Dunyaa. If you want more information, than please contact me.

About My Expected Life Partner

My partner is a strong Muslimah who never stands in between me and my Ebadah to Allah, and who has Allah first in every level of life. She is obedient to Allah, her husband, follows Quran and Sunnah to a "T", is accepting of my current wife and son. She is between the ages of 16 and 30 years old, will not ask for an outrageous Mahr. She is someone who even though it is her right, does not always tries to take from my pocket, is not greedy, is willing to help the household if necessary. Loves to study Islam on a daily basis, is educated, who can be trusted, who wants more children, and last but not least, who's only goal is to get into the Jannah-Inshallah.

Egyptian Islamist Vows Generations Martyred At Gates Of Jerusalem

Islamist calls for martyrdom to liberate Jerusalem from the Jews.

Tobacco industry attacks Australian 'nanny state'

With the Federal Government set to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes, the tobacco industry has launched a campaign claiming Australia is becoming a nanny state.