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When Americans pay more attention to celebrities than to independently verifiable facts, those of us with something important to communicate might be better off writing to celebrities than to our elected representatives.
This is a sad but likely true conclusion for most Americans today. We know more about TV series characters and storylines than we [...]

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Those of you who’ve been reading RichardHarlos.com for a while know that the site recently underwent some heavy enhancements. Hopefully for the better!
Along the way I’ve been learning quite a bit about WordPress templates, CSS, etc. Sometimes I get stumped and need help with this or that tweak. During those times I’ve [...]

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It was the weirdest thing. I use Firefox exclusively so all of my browsing, display testing, etc., is done in that environment.
A few days ago I changed how I was displaying pictures in my posts. Looked o.k. in Firefox so I immediately asked my girlfriend to go check out my new site, particularly [...]

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Retired Command Sergeant Eric L. Haney was a founding member in, as well as the founder of, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, also known as Delta Force, the elite covert U.S. counterterrorist unit.
He has seen significant behind-the-scenes action during his Delta Force service, including (but obviously not limited to) operations such as Guarding the [...]

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The Bush administration claims to fear inefficiency and lost opportunities to gather intelligence if it’s held accountable to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) and proper procedures therein.
The NSA surveillance program seems, by many media accounts, to be just the tip of the iceberg as far as what’s secretly going on behind the scenes. [...]

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