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As Americans at home watch baseball and eat BBQ today, the Marines are hard at work. Radio Killid has just reported that Marines in Helmand have overwhelmed insurgents in the Garmsir, Khanashin and Nawa districts of Helmand Province. “They have cleansed these districts of Taliban,” reported Killid. No separate confirmation on this yet, [...]

With bombs bursting in air this Fourth of July weekend, it's a good time to think again about why we like bombs so much. And there's more evidence this week that spectacular bloodlust has everything to do with environmental resources. The American Journal of Primatology published a study of the muriqui, [...]

Dear Gov. Palin: So you have resigned. Is it time for hard-right Republicans to fantasize about your hanging Velvet Elvis paintings in the White House in 2012? Or Tina Fey to break out her dead-on imitation of you as practice for the campaign stump? This much we know: One pop culture [...]

Another coup apologist surfaced yesterday in the Christian Science Monitor: "A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense." Of all the apologists, the arguments of Octavio Sánchez, a lawyer and former government minister in Honduras, are the best. He cites the 1982 Honduran Constitution, which contains four different explicit planks terminally prohibiting presidential re-election. [...]