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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Kierkegaard)
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. (T.N. Hanh)
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. (Ricoeur)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. (Einstein)
I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear. (Smith)
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Choosing Between Raw Milk and a Dead, White Liquid »
Posted by: ameliog 19 hours, 47 minutes ago in Health & Fitness
When health and business journalist David E. Gumpert, author of the newly released Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, decided ...
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Majority of GOP Candidates Deny Global Warming Exists »
Posted by: ameliog 19 hours, 56 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Now that five of the seven Republican candidates for governor have declared global warming a figment in the imaginations of the world's scientists, we ...
(read more)Read (33) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at nbcchicago.com
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UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless »
Posted by: ameliog 20 hours, 25 minutes ago in Political News
A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of ...
(read more)Read (27) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at commondreams.org
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GOP congressman chides the‘hard right’ »
Posted by: ameliog 21 hours, 17 minutes ago in Political News
According to the paper, Inglis said "hard-right" conservatives have told him that they are willing to let people who don't have health insurance "die ...
(read more)Read (92) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
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GOP clueless as families struggle with health care »
Posted by: ameliog 21 hours, 18 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Democratic passage of historic health-care legislation has Republicans so flummoxed they are talking about term limits again. They have nothing else to say.
(read more)Read (33) | Share | Discuss (4) | Read Full Story at seattletimes.nwsource.com
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Drug Policy Alliance Conference Comes at a Crucial Moment for Drug Reform »
Posted by: ameliog 21 hours, 27 minutes ago in News
More people than ever grasp the need to shift from criminalization to a public health model - the Drug Policy Alliance's conference leads the way ...
(read more)Read (26) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at alternet.org
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15 Awful Things Republicans Would Do If They Had the Chance »
Posted by: ameliog 21 hours, 54 minutes ago in Political Opinion
The GOP's agenda, if fully implemented, would prove catastrophic. Here's what an unfettered Republican Party would do "for" America.
(read more)Read (31) | Share | Discuss (2) | Read Full Story at alternet.org
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CO Republican's Tweet Compares Obama To 9/11 Hijackers »
Posted by: ameliog 22 hours, 3 minutes ago in Political Opinion
As long as the Republicans continue this sort of mindless hatred and exploitation, they will continue to slide further into the political wilderness:
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State Sen ...Read (19) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at crooksandliars.com
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Senator Tom Coburn holding up Veterans benefits bill »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 15 hours ago in Political News
Senator Tom Coburn (R), Okahoma, the same Tom Coburn who advised Senator John Ensign to end the affair he was having by paying off the ...
(read more)Read (258) | Share | Discuss (10) | Read Full Story at examiner.com
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How Far Will They Go? »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 17 hours ago in News
Just how far are the puppet masters pulling the strings of the Tea Party and related right wing radicals willing to go?
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Tilting at windbags »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 18 hours ago in Political Opinion
Ideologues take full advantage of America’s amnesia about Thomas Paine.
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Dobbs will turn up in politics - or on FOX News »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 21 hours ago in Arts & Entertainment
There had long been rumors of mutual dissatisfaction between Dobbs and CNN, a rift that has grown more heated sinced 2001 when he began espousing ...
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Maniacal Deregulation »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 22 hours ago in Business & Finance
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation. It is an anniversary worth noting ...
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What were the Republicans smoking? »
Posted by: ameliog 1 day, 22 hours ago in Political Opinion
After the disastrous Bush presidency the GOP had the option to go crazy or rethink. Guess which one they chose?
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Rev. Moon's Troubled Generation Next »
Posted by: ameliog 2 days, 12 hours ago in Political Opinion
In a normal world, the question of who will succeed a crazed cult leader like the 90-year-old Rev. Sun Myung Moon would not be an ...
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