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ONLINE NEWS SOURCES MAY BE CUT ENTIRELY »
Posted by: STONERS 49 minutes ago in News
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
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Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School »
Posted by: TimALoftis 5 hours, 13 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of ...
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Rice avoids protesters, doesnt address torture questions »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 hours, 37 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Some audience members at a speech by Condoleezza Rice were upset Sunday that the former secretary of state didn't address her role in the ...
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Wall Street Bonuses Rise as Big 3 May Pay $30 Billion »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 hours, 15 minutes ago in Business & Finance
The firms -- the three biggest banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- will hand out $29.7 billion in bonuses, according to analysts’ estimates ...
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Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan? by Tom Engelhardt -- Antiwar.com »
Posted by: populist 6 hours, 34 minutes ago in Political Opinion
After eight years of two major counterinsurgency wars (and various minor encounters in what used to be called the Global War on Terror), with many ...
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Happy Birthday: A Look Back at Five Years of Firefox »
Posted by: ameliog 6 hours, 54 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Five years ago, an open-source browser, one that didn't come with your computer, was available as a 1.0 download. To say it's ...
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America's Next Great Pundit Vote »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 hours, 56 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Welcome to the first round of voting for America's Next Great Pundit. This past week, we asked each of our 10 finalists to write ...
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The American War on Pot Rolls On »
Posted by: ameliog 7 hours, 34 minutes ago in Political Opinion
The Office of National Drug Control Policy says, Americans spend $9 billion a year buying pot from Mexico; $10 billion on pot from Canada, and ...
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Who Will Be Sent to Afghanistan? »
Posted by: berkeley 7 hours, 54 minutes ago in Political Opinion
In a grim November 3rd Wall Street Journal piece (buried inside the paper), Yochi Dreazen reported record suicide rates for a stressed-out U.S. Army ...
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Chrysler drops three electric vehicles despite having touted them to get billions in government bailout cash »
Posted by: ameliog 7 hours, 58 minutes ago in Business & Finance
If you believed all the talk from Chrysler about how our tax dollars would help finance its fast-track electric-vehicle future, you're in for a ...
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Afghan Carpetbaggers Hit Pots of Gold in Washington »
Posted by: berkeley 8 hours, 2 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Once upon a time there was an Afghani general named Abdul Rahim Wardak. He had studied in both US and Egyptian military schools before joining ...
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Searching for Work and Stability, Vets Fight New Battles at Home »
Posted by: ameliog 15 hours, 44 minutes ago in News
Despite the military's promises of upward mobility, unexpected hardships pushes many vets into a devastating downard spiral. For some, being back home doesn't ...
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad Fairness Doctrine? »
Posted by: ameliog 16 hours, 15 minutes ago in Political Opinion
Of all the Big Lies told by the pooh-bahs of talk radio - that our biracial president hates white people, that global warming is a hoax ...
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Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies »
Posted by: ameliog 16 hours, 54 minutes ago in Health & Fitness
Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It's a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in ...
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Dennis Kucinich: Why I Voted NO »
Posted by: tehranchik 20 hours, 43 minutes ago in Political News
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system ...
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