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November 21, 2015
American Pantheon: Anatasia Lin
Chinese-Canadian Anatasia Lin, 25, actress, model, Miss World Canada 2015 and China human rights advocate who testified before U.S. Congress in July of 2015.
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November 20, 2015
Princeton, don't go there. WTF.
Thomas. Woodrow. Wilson (1856-1924)? Polymath, academic, progressive and internationalist? See, e.g., at NBC News Princeton University Agrees to Weigh Erasing Woodrow Wilson's Name
Opening game 1916
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November 19, 2015
Just because.
"Now let that guitar part in."
NOTE: Something is seriously wrong with at least 2 of the dancers.
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November 18, 2015
Examiner: U.S. House members huddle on their Obama ISIS-Syria problem.
In this morning's edition of the Washington Examiner, one of the few sane and evenhanded American conservative publications out there, reporter Charles Hoskinson writes House pushes Obama to get tough on ISIS. It begins:
House leaders are working to see what they can do to prod President Obama to take tougher action against the Islamic State in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks in Paris blamed on the extremist group.
Lawmakers may insert provisions into a fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill being drafted calling for a comprehensive strategy backed by a more aggressive U.S. posture, and also are considering whether to add money to a war funding account, House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said Tuesday.
The Texas Republican is one of several committee chairmen on a task force created by House leaders to look at a number of concerns that have come up since the Paris attacks, which killed 129 and injured more than 350, and recommend new approaches.
The urgent matter on the agenda is an effort to seek a pause in the administration's plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees next year until a vetting process can be designed to ensure terrorists don't slip into the country with them. But Thornberry also noted that concerns have been raised about the Islamic State's continuing success in recruiting foreign fighters to join its forces in Syria and the group's ability to spread its ideas via social media, sometimes even inspiring "lone wolf" attacks.
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November 17, 2015
Beirut and Paris: 2 questions for Americans.
Okay, really 4 questions.
I'm curious:
1. Have last week's attacks in Beirut and central Paris changed or bolstered your views in any respect on American immigration policy? (They are beginning to change mine.) If so, how?
2. Do the attacks change who you might support for U.S. president? If so, how?
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