Which came first, the chicken or the minister?

“America’s chickens coming home to roost.” To hear the pundits talk, you’d think nobody ever heard of chickens before. To speak truth to power is the hardest challenge. The less powerful you are, the greater the challenge. But sometimes the truth doesn’t need a mouthpiece. It just is.

Last week, the fifth anniversary of the modern war in Iraq was commemorated by the 4,000th American military death since our occupation of that country in 2003. Without FOX News or CNN to tell us, it would still be true.

What does the Vice President say to the assertion by Martha Raddatz of ABC News that two thirds of the American people are against the war? “So?”

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The kumbaya liberation front

So when exactly did “kumbaya” become a dirty word?

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