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Tomorrow In History: The Strange And Very Surreal Summer Of 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017 - 11:26am | 1366As the vacation season ends with rumbles of war, hints of impeachment, the afterglow of a solar eclipse and the ongoing nightmare of a natural disaster, it’s time to step back and look at the surreal summer of 2017. To paraphrase Stephen Stills: Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Everybody...
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ESPN Takes Fire For Switching Football Announcer Robert Lee From Virginia Game
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 1:36pm | 430ESPN just isn't whistling Dixie. In a move that set off an outcry across media both social and mainstream, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) pulled a broadcaster, Robert Lee, off its sports wing's telecast of the Sept. 2 game between the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary...
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Poll: Americans Still Feel More Threatened By ISIS Than North Korea
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 3:06pm | 1148Late Thursday evening in Barcelona, Spain, a van hurtled through a crowd, reportedly killing 13 people* and injuring dozens others. According to the Associated Press, Catalan police said shortly after the event: "We confirm the terrorist attack. The protocol for terrorist attacks has been...
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Never Mind The Blue-Collar Base: Trump Is Losing The Elites, Analyst Says
Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 9:44am | 730What began with a deadly clash in Virginia led to a perfect storm that threatens the global economy and stability of the dollar. The danger is not so much that President Donald Trump is losing his angry, white, working-class base, but he is being abandoned by GOP elites who were hoping to profit...
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Godaddy Gives Neo-Nazi Website 24 Hours Before Shutting It Down; Site Makes Claim It Was Seized By Anonymous
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 1:50pm | 441The Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi website favored by the white supremacists who ran amuck in the Virginia city of Charlottesville, appeared to have been taken over by the hacker group “Anonymous,” though members of the latter group believe the hack is a hoax. One of the largest "...
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Merck CEO Quits Manufacturing Council To Stand Against Violence; Trump Promptly Calls Him Out About Drug Pricing
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 9:58am | 368President Donald Trump saw the resignation of a second American Manufacturing Council member Monday after he condemned the “many sides” of the Charlottesville rally rather than denouncing the white supremacist assembly. He wasn’t pleased. Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has...
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Subtext Of The Siege In Charlottesville: Virginia Makes $24 Billion Off Racial History
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 6:20pm | 781White supremacists clashing with anti-racism activists in Virginia has taken place in a city that has a history steeped in Civil War and civil rights, a place that profits greatly from people obsessed with landmarks and milestones that Charlottesville both symbolizes and markets. As a nexus of both...