Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Race and the Media
The number one post (in terms of views) on this blog thus far has been the story about the boy from Kansas City, who happened to be white, and was walking along and set on fire by two other kids, who happen to be black. This story came up again in the comments on a…
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Fast-n-Furious Catches and Release Top Suspect
I’m sorry this story is a few days old, I’ve been busy. As a courtesy the LA Times didn’t mention Eric Holder’s name in this article. Seven months after federal agents began the ill-fated Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, they stumbled upon their main suspect in a remote Arizona outpost on the Mexican border, driving…
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Obama’s Selective Service Card Forged?
Say it ain’t so Joe. “America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidential birth certificate and Selective Service Card “probably the biggest censorship blackout in the…
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IMF Chief: Oil Supply Matters
Yesterday I wrote about the latest meme to come out of the White House: that the president cannot control oil prices. This is of course ridiculous. Should the president choose a path that would increase supply — even if not immediately — the price of oil would go down. Everyone knows that while the oil…
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Chicago Police Supt. Promises To Curb Gang Violence
Garry McCarthy says the intelligence is there. It’s just a matter of getting the information to beat officers so they can anticipate a retaliatory gang shooting. “We’re going to get our head around this thing and we’re going to turn it around is what it boils down to,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday. “If we were…
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Ayers Family Put ‘Foreigner’ Obama Through School
Hulton says that in conversations with Mary Ayers while on his route he learned of the couple’s enthusiasm and support for a black foreign student. One bright, warm Chicagoland day, he recounts, he met the student who fit Mary Ayers’ description in front of the Ayers home in Glen Ellyn, Ill. That young man, Hulton…
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Most Bedbug Infested Cities
Orkin announced its top 50 bed bug cities for the past year and several of them are popular spring break destinations. The following cities are ranked in order of the number of bed bug treatments Orkin performed from January to December 2011. via Chicago Tribune. Thoroughly revolted that we’re number 2.
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A President’s Control of Oil Prices
A new meme is carefully being inserted into society: that a president generally, and Obama specifically, cannot control oil prices. Like all good lies there is just enough truth in this meme in order to not make it laughable. The notion is absolutely true in the short term (Obama cannot make $2.50/gal gas appear overnight,…
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Eric Holder 1995: We Must Brainwash People on Guns
[In] 1995 … then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announc[ed] a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.” Holder was addressing the Woman’s National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to “change the hearts…
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At Least 10 Dead, Dozens Wounded In Weekend Violence
A bizarre weekend where the high exceeded 80 degrees also brought a rash of violence across Chicago, which left at least 10 people dead and some 40 others wounded. via CBS Chicago. There’s no end in sight. CPD is so undermanned that little can be done. Whatever the Mayor’s is doing, it’s not working.
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