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Green Driving Tips: Ways to Be Environmentally Friendly With Your Car This Summer

Autos – Wit the cost of gas increasing, and more focus on our individual ecological footprints, here are some great tips for driving in a more environmentally friendly manner this summer.

Voted for on July 09, 2008 08:10am Commented on 1 time: 1

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L.A. Judge Drops Drug Case After Cops Lie in Testimony

News – In echoes of Rampart scandal, defense attorney says officers planted cocaine on man accused of being a gang member. On surveillance tape produced at trial, one officer tells another: 'Be creative in your writing.'

Voted for on July 09, 2008 08:04am Commented on 1 time: 1

Evil Reigns but None Dare Call it Treason
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Evil Reigns but None Dare Call it Treason

Do No Evil – Torture advocated, secret armies and prisons encouraged, ignoring habeas corpus for anyone pointed to and called "enemy combatant." Yet, non dare call it treason.

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Farewell to Jesse Helms, a Provincial Redneck

Politics – It seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence. One doesn't want the occasion sullied by the obsequies for a senile racist buffoon.

Voted for on July 08, 2008 08:07am Commented on 1 time: 1

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NYT Limited Hangout on SERE Torture & U.S. Biological Warfare

Politics – This story describes how a recent article in the New York Times, "China Inspired Interrogations at GuantÃ;¡namo" (7/2/08), which details the use of Albert Biderman's "Chart of Coercion" by SERE instructors at Guantanamo prison, uses only partial revelations and other forms of misinformation to distort th

Voted for on July 07, 2008 08:26pm

McCain plan: Let taxpayers, not employers, subsidize health insurance premiums
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McCain plan: Let taxpayers, not employers, subsidize health insurance premiums

Politics – There's a great unknown about Sen. John McCain's health plan: How many employers would drop insurance coverage for their workers because of his tax policies?

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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views
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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views

Politics – President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote.

Voted for on July 07, 2008 08:49am

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All Right Magazine - Obama Should Bar Clark

Politics – Is Clark really the right man to attack McCain?

Voted for on July 07, 2008 08:43am Commented on 1 time: 1

More power in Iraq, but shortages linger
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More power in Iraq, but shortages linger

News – Don't try to convince Taha Yassin that Iraq's power shortages are finally easing: His children cry each night when the fan cuts off and the house heats up

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Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Oil Should Cost $144 a Barrel
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Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Oil Should Cost $144 a Barrel

Politics – In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden said the real price of a barrel of oil should be $144 a barrel (10 years ago, a barrel of oil was $11). Also, One month after 9/11, the New York Times warned that among the misguided decisions that would put oil supplies at risk would be that the United States attacks Iraq.

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Abu Graib: What the Most Seen Photographs Say
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Abu Graib: What the Most Seen Photographs Say

Movies – 'Standard Operating Procedure', the new film by Errol Morris, is the fruit of meticulous research into the ill-treatment of Iraqi detainees. Featuring numerous interviews with military personnel who served at Abu Ghraib, it leaves the viewer in little doubt that the cruelty captured on camera was authorized at the highest levels in Washington.

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Study: Most Self-Abuse Goes Unreported
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Study: Most Self-Abuse Goes Unreported

Humor – THE ONION RADIO NEWS : With Doyle Redland reporting - According to a study by the University of Colorado Sociology Department, approximately 95% of self-abuse cases go unreported.

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Getting Rights Wrong

Politics – When early Americans spoke of self-defense, they didn't just have common criminals in mind. They were thinking of the would-be tyrants up the road. Defense against tyranny is always considered illegal -- by the tyrant. Had the first Americans lost, they would have been hanged as traitors. But they won. So we celebrate them today.

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Mexican Police Taught How to Torture By US Advisors

News – Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture in law enforcement.

Voted for on July 05, 2008 09:25am Commented on 1 time: 1

Former Sen. Jesse Helms Dies At 86
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Former Sen. Jesse Helms Dies At 86

News – Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 86.

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