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Auditors: Nuclear plants not following fire rules
News – Operators of nuclear power plants have yet to comply with some of the government's fire safety rules three decades after they were issued, a congressional report said Monday. The Government Accountability Office said there were 125 fires reported at 54 power plants since 1995, an average of nearly 10 a year, although none threatened safe emergen
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Voted for on July 03, 2008 06:34am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / 1 sink
The Thugs Win the Case
Do No Evil – There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago.
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Voted for on June 29, 2008 02:10pm
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Setback for Philadelphia Schools Plan
News – Six years ago, the Philadelphia School District embarked on what was considered the country's boldest education privatization experiment, putting 38 schools under private management to see if the free market could educate children more efficiently than the government.
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Voted for on June 29, 2008 02:02pm
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Fuel Costs May Force Some Kids To Walk - washingtonpost.com
News – Here's how rising fuel prices affect an organization with a fleet of 1,273 school buses: The Montgomery County school board today will consider giving Superintendent Jerry D. Weast emergency powers to make students walk farther to school, if need be, in the coming academic year.
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 11:50pm
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Straightening out McCain's "straight talk."
Politics – I felt as though I were in a time machine as I listened to John McCain's aides detail how to run against Barack Obama. I could have been on the phone with Bush aides in 2000 talking about McCain: He survives on the strength of his rhetoric; the press that follows him each day doesn't challenge him but serves merely to record his historic rise; the
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 10:31pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Cindy McCain Lies to Us Again
Politics – Overt attempts on the part of conservatives at portraying Michelle Obama as a scary, potentially racist, terrorist-fist-bumping radical has the political class debating whether candidates' wives should be considered fair game.
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 10:24pm
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How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction
Politics – But both of Cindy McCain's staged, teary drug-addiction confessions have been vintage John McCain. His MO is this: Get the story out -- even if it's a negative story. Get it out first, with the spin you want, with the details you want and without the details you don't want.
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 10:20pm
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Rachael Ray "Flattered" Cindy McCain Stole Her Chicken Recipe
Celebrities – McCain cooked up controversy after an intern lifted Ray's recipe for rosemary chicken (as well as other Food Network recipes) and posted them as "Cindy's Recipes" on her husband's presidential campaign site.
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 10:08pm
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Ties to Bush on offshore drilling may hurt McCain this fall - CNN.com
Politics – As he tries to woo independent voters, Sen. John McCain is relying on his image as a maverick, making it clear he's no President Bush. Sen. John McCain wants an end to the federal ban on offshore drilling, a reversal from his 2000 campaign. But the timing of Bush's support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain's effor
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 10:04pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / 1 sink
Cooking up Scandal: Cindy McCain Allegedly Lifts Another Recipe | The New York Observer
Food – Unfortunately, these were not her recipes. They were lifted word-for-word from recipes on the Food Network website, one of which was penned by Rachael Ray. The McCains claimed that it was all an intern's fault and called it a "low-level unpaid staff debacle."
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 09:57pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Cindy, you brought this on yourself
Politics – Cindy McCain is a pill popping drug addict who used her own non-profit relief agency, American Voluntary Medical Team, as a front to steal Percocet and Vicodin. When she was caught she used her political connections to avoid prison and instead she pulled a Lohan and slept it off in rehab.
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 09:47pm
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Pipe down, Cindy McCain
Politics – Cindy, please. Nobody wants to see a future first lady catfight -- do they? I'd have expected Cindy McCain, of all people, to have more empathy for an aspiring first lady's first time in the searing national spotlight. In 2000, after all, McCain had to suffer a Bush-campaign-sponsored whisper campaign about her daughter Bridget (that she was actual
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 09:38pm
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Cindy McCain: Drugs, Lies, Intimidation, Theft and Cindy McCain
Politics – These days Cindy McCain is the picture of the glowing, supportive spouse of a politician running for President. It was a different picture back then, at least in private, as the McCain's managed to turn the tale of Cindy's scheme for stealing narcotics using the doctors who worked in the charity she ran, into one of "redemption".
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 07:48pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Can We Trust Cindy McCain to Represent American Women?
Politics – As an American woman I have always looked to the First Lady of the United States as a role model. A role she chooses when she supports her husband in politics and helps him take the Whitehouse. This year American women almost had for the first time a female to pick for President, but as that slipped through our fingers we are now back to looking at
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(digitaljournal.com)
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 07:45pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Cindy McCain's Alcohol Problem
Politics – "You can't run a beer company out of the White House," said Samuel L. Popkin, a political science professor at UC San Diego. "You can't run any company from the White House. McCain is leaving a live hand grenade on the table, a major embarrassment."
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Voted for on June 24, 2008 07:39pm
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