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Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick depicted in a stained glass
window at Saint Benin’s Church, Ireland

Howdy Headliners. Put on your funny green hat and drink the funny green beer until you turn a funny shade of green: It’s St. Patrick’s Day or Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Long before he chased the snakes out of Ireland, Patrick loved to read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Green with envy? No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Is Paul Ryan Racist?

GOP Congressional Candidate Apologizes for Slavery Comments

Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’

Ohio State Rep Proposes Selling Off Public Schools To Private Businesses To End ‘Socialism’

Republican Ignorance and Stupidity Hit a New
Low With Attacks on Neil de Grasse Tyson

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Republican Legislators Fall Victim
to Ponzi Scheme Run by Man who
Claimed to Have Found Noah’s Ark

Nine Unopened Dead Sea Scrolls Found


ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

British Import: Music College Comes To Capitol Park Downtown This Autumn

COLD CASE SOLVED:

Has the real Sherlock Holmes been deduced?
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests
he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

Thousands Turn Up For California’s
Largest-Ever Rally To Ban Fracking

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Greenland Ice Melt ‘Accelerating,’ Climate Change Awakens ‘Sleeping Giant’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Congressman Guestimates
How Many of His Fellow
Reps Smoke Weed

Colorado Recreational
Weed Sales Top $14
Million In First Month

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford captured on
new video stumbling,
swearing outside city hall

Mayor Rob Ford has again been caught
on video behaving erratically in public.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox analyst: Obama buying
pink clothes is a failure of
the White House PR dept.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have U.S. scientists found
the Big Bang’s biggest secret
and the final key to relativity?

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury

Asteroid Set to Cover One of
the Brightest Stars in the Night
Sky Thursday Morning

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