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You can get all three in Wisconsin; cheese curds that squeak are everywhere up there.
Beloved, disgusting food
Poutine! Calvin Trillin's 2009 article in the New Yorker about the Quebecois comfort food, poutine, may have set off a poutine fad that reached as far as Texas. As a punch line, poutine has a lot going for it. Many Canadians believe that it is also good to eat. Their fondness for it is, in ...
My question is how many more damaged guys like this one have been sent back to serve in Afghaistan, and how many more massacres can we expect before somebody does something?
I realize that in this new era, no one is ever responsible for anything, except the poor dumb bastard who who gets caught at the end of an extremely long string of unfortunate and often illegal events that extends into the political and social stratosphere, but some might consider this a wake-up call.
Robert Bales and Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Commentary By Ron Beasley U.S. Identifies Army Sergeant in Killing of 16 in Afghanistan The military on Friday identified the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers earlier this week as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a 38-year-old father of two who had been injured twice in combat over the co...
Tancred wasn't going to keep those prisoners as slaves; he was going to deal them back for ransom. Unfortunately, his men sort of foreclosed that option, much to the expense to Tancred's purse. No wonder he was upset; nothing like hitting somebody in the pocketbook to make them mad.
Rick Santorum: The Crusades Get A Bad Rap!
Jillian Rayfield, February 2011: >: If you were worried there wouldn’t be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day! >“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,” ...
I wasn't sure what was going to happen up in America's Dairyland when this whole thing started, but it occurs to me that people are really pissed off up there and getting more so by the day. I guess it really is possible to get folks' attention if you're stupid enough to believe your own propaganda and then try to force everybody to swallow the BS, no matter how divorced from reality it might be.
Gov. Scott Walker's Hosni Mubarak Moment
Commentary By Ron Beasley® It was almost an Egypt moment when over 100,000 showed up in Madison Wisconsin to protest Gov Scott Walker's attempt to eliminate the freedom of government workers to organize. It became an Egypt moment when they were joined by the Wisconsin State Police. “Hundreds o...
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