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News – The Taliban have regrouped and have formed a "resilient insurgency," according to a new Pentagon report. The report predicted that the Taliban would be back in 2008. Opium production increased "substantially" in 2007. There are about 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, but only 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Voted for on June 29, 2008 12:21am
Politics – McCain at last night's Townhall at Xavier University in Ohio.
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Sunk on June 29, 2008 12:11am
Politics – Noam Chomsky, the renowned US academic, author and political activist, speaks to Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera's Inside USA.
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(english.aljazeera.net)
Voted for on June 27, 2008 12:18pm
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Politics – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in 2001 should be held criminally liable for pushing an illegal war.
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(rawstory.com)
Voted for on June 27, 2008 12:18pm
Humor – This is a serious study of the moron in the office cubicle next to yours.
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(badbaker.com)
Voted for on June 27, 2008 12:13pm
Money – Oil futures shot above $140 Thursday after OPEC's president said crude prices could rise well above $150 a barrel this year and Libya said it may cut oil production. The advance raised the likelihood that gasoline prices would also extend their march higher, and that prices of goods and services throughout the economy would also keep rising.
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(msnbc.msn.com)
Voted for on June 27, 2008 08:57am
Do No Evil – The testimony from David S. Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, and John C. Yoo, a former senior Justice Department lawyer, was light on new details but heavy on rhetorical disputes with members of a House Judiciary subcommittee. Both witnesses avoided direct answers to a host of questions about their roles in preparing the legal gr
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Voted for on June 27, 2008 08:54am
Science – It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
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(independent.co.uk)
Voted for on June 27, 2008 08:52am
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Politics – Mike Huckabee warned that the Illinois senator's views on such issues as partial birth abortion takes away the equality of unborn children, and that Obama makes him uncomfortable.
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Sunk on June 26, 2008 03:08pm
Politics – It's no secret that over the past several months, John McCain's Straight Talk Express has become the Zig Zag Local. He's gone from being a maverick who defies the establishment to a kind of gonzo maverick who defies the people - and that's a very dangerous thing for a presidential candidate.
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(politico.com)
Voted for on June 26, 2008 03:05pm
Politics – Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year.
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(latimes.com)
Voted for on June 26, 2008 03:05pm
Politics – Yes Carter say the future of where the energy sector was heading....who paid attention??
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(commondreams.org)
Voted for on June 26, 2008 01:50pm
Politics – McCain in 2006: "...We're in the early stages of what I would consider the Third World War..."
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(huffingtonpost.com)
Voted for on June 26, 2008 01:49pm
Politics – The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on the presidential election finds John McCain and Barack Obama exactly tied at 45% among registered voters nationwide.
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News – After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, local governments across the country set aside concerns over privacy and installed surveillance cameras in public streets and plazas.
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(msnbc.msn.com)
Voted for on June 26, 2008 01:37pm