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
March 19, 2014
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
March 18, 2014
Because nothing says Martin Luther King, Jr. like a bunch of drunk World War II reenactors in German uniforms, right?
Source: The New Republic
March 18, 2014
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
March 18, 2014
In completely unrelated news, Drunk History is returning to Comedy Central. It's not even in this wire story. We promise.
Source: Associated Press
March 18, 2014
Don't think it couldn't happen -- Amelia Earhart's plane was never found, either.
Source: New York Times
March 19, 2014
South Ossetia, wrested from Georgia by Russia in 2008, has become an economic backwater.
Source: New York Times
March 19, 2014
Putin cited the breakup of the Soviet Union and the tenth-century baptism of Prince Vladimir, among other examples.
Source: Phys.org
March 11, 2014
Peking Man apparently could control fire.
Source: The Economist
March 16, 2014
Arthur Guinness, the founder of the brewing dynasty, was a staunch unionist and opponent of Irish nationalism.
Source: Stars and Stripes
March 17, 2014
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
March 17, 2014
The Blarney Stone is nothing more than local limestone.
Source: Phys.org
March 17, 2014
Polynesian chickens provide important clue on migration tale.
Source: NYT
March 12, 2014
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
March 6, 2014
The items have been at the center of an extended court battle within the King family.
Source: Reuters
March 8, 2014
The Chinese foreign minister said progress can only be made if Japan makes a clean break with the past.
Source: The Telegraph
March 10, 2014
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
March 3, 2014
Several black students at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis said they were hurt and disappointed when served the meal.
Source: Voice of America
March 6, 2014
Sergei Khrushchev says that the decision to give Crimea to Ukraine had to do with economics and agriculture.
Source: BBC News
February 26, 2014
There was an explosion of freedom when tape recorders allowed individuals in the Soviet Union to tape their own songs.
Source: Business Week
March 7, 2014
The world hasn’t banished the risks of the
miscommunications, clumsy judgments and botched intelligence
that blindsided Europe in 1914.
