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Epic Video...must watch. Some tea partiers came over to the union side to have a dialogue with the pro-union protesters. The tea partier was stopped cold by the question, "Why do you have a right to your money". Really dude? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD809fp6i_0

Ever wonder why many liberals will quote historical fact that never happened. For example, they might tell you that the eighties were terrible times economically thanks to Reagan? As this article implies, it seems rather easy to convince impressionable people that they have experienced a false past. People have been convinced that they saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, even though Bugs has no affiliation with Disneyland. Elizabeth Loftus is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle – and a world-renowned leader in the study of human memory, perhaps most famously the study of False Childhood Memories. "What...

In 1938, the year my mother left Germany for good and never saw her parents again, Virginia Woolf published a book entitled Three Guineas. It was about how women could prevent war. Virginia Woolf’s name is not normally associated with great affairs of state, of course. Quite the reverse. She regarded them with a fastidious disgust, as a vulgar distraction from the true business of life: attendance to the finer nuances of one’s own emotional state. Along with the other members of the Bloomsbury group—that influential and endlessly chronicled little band of British aesthetes of which she was a moving...