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TIME Magazine's Sad Advocacy For Afghan Nation Building

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Just take a look at the cover that brought Richard Stengel great glee to introduce on Mo(u)rning Jo(k)e the other morning: Gnarling on any rational person's teeth must have been their reaction to this nauseating cover, made even more pathetic by TIME's persistence to indicate how the Taliban will slaughter and annihilate every women in Afghanistan if the United States were to leave soon. Furthermore, as the terrific Allison Kilkenny indicates , Rangel took umbrage with Joe Biden's opinion on how we are not in the business of nation building, making sure to draw attention to their "oh so powerful" cover. What Stangel and his corporate propaganda magazine love to indicate is how " They are neutral, they aren't pro or anti war, but wanted to show the reality of the situation. " The much publicized release of classified documents by WikiLeaks has already ratcheted up the debate about the war. Our story and the haunting cover image by the disting...

Special Before The Daily Agenda Post: Typos Can Produce Memorable Classics

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Greg Mitchell, an esteem journalist, noticed a bad typo and twittered it this morning ...........(click on it, you need to see it better) The State, who helped Sanford keep his job with no problem until yesterday by holding his now infamous emails with his mistress for about 7 MONTHS, tweeted back to Mitchell. (click on it, you need to see it better) Typos can make laughing stocks out of all of us, but they can sometimes produce irony as well.....can't it?