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The [Christmas Day 2014] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

The Beachwood elves threw together this abbreviated holiday column.
* 15% – 20% Of Christmas Gifts Are Crap.
* The Amazon Grinch And Germany’s Unhappy Elves.
* Rock ‘N’ Roll History From Chicago Native’s Caribou Ranch Up For Auction.


* Inside The Indiana Megadairy Making Coca-Cola’s New Milk.
“That dairy, called Fair Oaks Farms, doubles as America’s one and only dairy theme park, a bit of Americana that interrupts a monotonous stretch of Interstate 65 between Chicago and Indianapolis.”
* Oldest Man In America Dies At 110 In Rockford.
* Smart Bar To Undergo Renovations In January.
* The Former CIA Agent Who Prompted The Torture Report Speaks From Prison.
“Obama’s intelligence policy is essentially an extension of the Bush administration, but bloodier.”
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This is still something liberals have not come to grips with, despite mounds of facts. It’s satisfying to focus anger on Dick Cheney – and certainly correct – but the evidence could hardly be stronger that the Obama administration is far more guilty of war crimes, secret government and modes of tyranny (including an all-out offensive on journalists and whistleblowers) than Cheney-Bush. Liberals have never been able to get their heads around who Obama really is; it’s too counter to their media-massaged perception and their deeply baked-in beliefs and self-view of sophisticates battling the ignorance of rednecks and Palinites. It’s necessarily self-delusional, lest their worldview be shaken to the core. It’s almost like too devastating a psychological breakdown would occur should they acknowledge their own complicity in everything they profess to be against.
* Roger Waters: A Gitmo Story.
* Doonesbury: Mr. Tobacco & Mr. Alcohol.
* In Brooklyn, A Pattern Of Guns That Seem To Have Been Planted On Black Men.
* State Aid To Prop Up Nukes? Exelon Says No – In Ohio.
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Packin’.

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Posted on December 25, 2014