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  • July 2008

    • Parade Mocks Pregnancy Pact

      Boston Herald  |  Jul 7, 08 1:31 PM CDT

      Parade Mocks Pregnancy Pact

      (Newser) - The Gloucester, Mass., teen pregnancy pact is a sensitive matter, which apparently made it fair game for the Fourth of July "Horribles" parade in an upscale neighboring town, the Boston Herald reports. One float in the Beverly Farms procession raucously mocked the situation in blue-collar Gloucester with a giant phallus, which sprayed the crowd while men in diapers crawled from beneath a woman’s legs. More »

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      Massachusetts  • teen pregnancy  • Fourth of July  • Gloucester

    • Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion

      Science Blogs  |  Jul 5, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion

      (Newser) - Thomas Jefferson may be a founding father, but that doesn’t stop President Bush’s speechwriters from editing his words as they see fit, Ed Brayton writes on his blog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars. In a July 4 speech, Bush recited a famous Jefferson quote on “the blessings and security of self-government,” but took a crucial “anti-religious statement” out of the sentence. More »

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      George W. Bush  • religious right  • speech  • Fourth of July  • Thomas Jefferson

    • Black, Red, White & Blue

      Washington Post  |  Jul 4, 08 5:55 PM CDT

      Black, Red, White & Blue

      (Newser) - For black Americans, patriotism is a complex sentiment, but "complicated relationships tend to be the deepest and strongest," writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post . Barack Obama’s candidacy shows how far we've come, but "it is not common, in my experience, for sitting US senators to be questioned on their love of country," Robinson observes. More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • race  • blacks  • patriotism  • Fourth of July

    • Hot Dog! Duo Shoots for Title Tomorrow

      Village Voice  |  Jul 3, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Hot Dog! Duo Shoots for Title Tomorrow

      (Newser) - With Takeru Kobayashi’s hot-dog hegemony in doubt at tomorrow's Coney Island throwdown, the Village Voice accompanies a pair of contenders as they train for the event. Roommates Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Janus hit an all-you-can-eat sushi bar in preparation for Nathan's July 4th institution, the 10-minute contest described by an organizer as "the Master’s of competitive eating." More »

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      hot dogs  • eating  • Fourth of July  • Takeru Kobayashi  • competitive eating  • Nathan's

  • May 2008

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