Except for the Red Sox, nothing new in the news...so below the fold:
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Medal of Freedom awarded to Brian Lamb of CSPAN; also to the president of Liberia...scientist Francis Collins, and to Henry Hyde, whose Wikipedia entry is full of monicagate and sexual innuendo but ignores he was one of only a few bipartisan fighters for democracy advocates and human rights in Congress...
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Kidnapped Iraqi tribal chiefs rescued by Iraqi army...of course the kidnapping was headlines, and now the rescue will be ignored in favor of Yahoo's top headline that 20 decapitated bodies found...but the BBC reports this report was untrue...who do you believe? Yahoo headlines or the BEEB?.
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NYSun has an article on North Korean refugees...an estimated 300 000 in China...who get smuggled into other countries since China will send them back if identified (many Koreans live in Chinese border area are citizens of China). This has been going on for years; the "Good news" is that once in awhile the MSM notices the problem...
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Rumi ...the Persian Sufi mystic's poetry is still popular but frowned upon by the Mullahs and the Taliban...but in London the rappers love him...
Warning: Lileks has a new book out...Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery...
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