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James Fallows points to this Wikipedia chart for evidence of how “a-historical the current Senate practice” is:
Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster 2010
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He is a writer who can not be appropriated into the a-historical and a – political discourses of postmodernism.
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It is a-historical (we have always held POWs until the end of war, and frankly, have shot unlawful combatants).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Executive Power Only A Problem When Someone Else Has It 2010
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To me, it seems reductionist, willfully ignorant of the complex history of Islam, a-historical, born from a desire to invent a clear demarcation where it is not possible to draw one.
Save Kiana Firouz Hal Duncan 2010
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Cynical, a-historical, and fundamentally anti-democratic claptrap.
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For someone who slags on "a-historical cultists" (without linking to any examples of such), it would be illuminating for Jeffrey to provide historical evidence of modern "revolutionary" American presidents who explicitly campaigned as such.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The mythicist or a-historical Jesus position is faced with two centuries of work in the fields of textual and form criticism, anthropology of religion, and ancient history, ALL of which has deviated significantly from the strong historicist claim that we have reliable witness to the life of Jesus in the earliest Christian literature.
Young-Earth Creationists Are Like Mythicists James F. McGrath 2010
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For someone who slags on "a-historical cultists" (without linking to any examples of such), it would be illuminating for Jeffrey to provide historical evidence of modern "revolutionary" American presidents who explicitly campaigned as such.
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It is as if the tendency for new administrations to a-historical in their outlook, whereas Obama is immersed in history.
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None of this is new but in an a-historical A. D.D culture, few know the long history of Wall Street's rakes and rogues for whom corporate larceny represents business as usual.
Danny Schechter: Did Wall Street "Go Rogue" Or Was It Rogue Already? 2009
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