Donner Party

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Surviving the Donner Party Meant Taking These Steps
What the Donner Party
Did—and Should Have Done
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What the Donner Party Did—and Should Have Done

Cannibalism was key, writes Cody Cassidy at 'Wired'

(Newser) - In July 1846, 85 people became members of the Donner Party with a single ill-fated choice: They turned left at a crossroads that they believed would trim three weeks from their trek to California. Instead, it added four, putting them at the Sierra Nevada in a year where winter came...

Republicans Are Cannibals? It's Offensive to Cannibals
Republicans Are Cannibals?
It's Offensive to Cannibals
Dana Milbank

Republicans Are Cannibals? It's Offensive to Cannibals

Dana Milbank: The Donner Party had more tact

(Newser) - Dana Milbank thinks DNC chief Tim Kaine should apologize for likening the GOP and the Tea Party to the Donner Party. "Comparing Republicans to cannibals is deeply offensive," he writes in the Washington Post . "To the cannibals." For one thing, the Donners (and Milbank says he's...

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