This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: New York Times
3-19-14
Mr.
Thrower’s unusual legal background helped garner wide support from lawyers’ groups and lawmakers
when Nixon nominated him for I.R.S. commissioner.
Source: Talking Points Memo
3-18-14
Because nothing says Martin Luther King, Jr. like a bunch of drunk World War II reenactors in German uniforms, right?
Source: The New Republic
3-18-14
Remember the story about the rich guy comparing left-wing populism to Nazism? It’s happening again, only this time it’s a different rich guy.
Source: Associated Press
3-18-14
In completely unrelated news, Drunk History is returning to Comedy Central. It's not even in this wire story. We promise.
Source: Associated Press
3-18-14
Don't think it couldn't happen -- Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, either.
Source: New York Times
3-19-14
South Ossetia, wrested from Georgia by Russia in 2008, has become an economic backwater.
Source: New York Times
3-19-14
Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.
Source: Phys.org
3-11-14
Peking Man apparently could control fire.
Source: The Economist
3-16-14
Arthur Guinness, the founder of the brewing dynasty, was a staunch unionist and opponent of Irish nationalism.
Source: Stars and Stripes
3-17-14
In a White House ceremony Tuesday, the United States will officially acknowledge that the selfless combat heroics of 24 soldiers, including Erevia, always merited more than the nation’s second-highest medal for valor.
Source: Newser
3-17-14
The Blarney Stone is nothing more than local limestone.
Source: Phys.org
3-17-14
Polynesian chickens provide important clue on migration tale.
Source: NYT
3-12-14
Directed by the Academy Award winner Freida Mock, the documentary — which does not reveal Ms. Hill’s current views on Justice Thomas — chronicles her plunge, and the nation’s, into a volatile stew of sex, race and politics.
Source: CNN.com
3-6-14
The items have been at the center of an extended court battle within the King family.
Source: Reuters
3-8-14
The Chinese foreign minister said progress can only be made if Japan makes a clean break with the past.
Source: The Telegraph
3-10-14
The thigh bones of a medieval monk have been found poking out of cliffs at Monknash in South Wales which was a former burial ground in the Middle Ages.
Source: The Daily Mail
3-3-14
Several black students at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis said they were hurt and disappointed when served the meal.
Source: Voice of America
3-6-14
Sergei Khrushchev says that the decision to give Crimea to Ukraine had to do with economics and agriculture.
Source: BBC News
2-26-14
There was an explosion of freedom when tape recorders allowed individuals in the Soviet Union to tape their own songs.
Source: Business Week
3-7-14
The world hasn’t banished the risks of the
miscommunications, clumsy judgments and botched intelligence
that blindsided Europe in 1914.
