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Do No Evil – A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.
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Politics – Flying below the radar, the former vice-presidential candidate is pulling off a feat that Democratic consultants have long considered impossible: staking out the most progressive platform among the viable candidates while preserving an aura of electability....
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Voted for on August 20, 2007 03:49pm
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Science – Space shuttle Endeavour roared into orbit Wednesday carrying teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was finally fulfilling the dream of Christa McAuliffe and the fallen Challenger crew. Endeavour and its crew of 7 rose from the seaside pad at 6:36 pm, right on time, and pierced a solidly blue sky. They're expected to reach the ISS on Friday.
News – Dangerous conditions that forced rescuers to halt attempts to reach six trapped miners will prevent crews from reaching the men for at least a week, a mining executive said.
Sports – Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, acknowledged Wednesday that Beijing's air pollution could force outdoor events to be postponed during next year's Olympics.
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Politics – When it's OK to monitor certain phone calls, e-mails, faxes and text messages between foreigners and U.S. residents. Such surveillance can go on for a year. Left on the books long enough, this is not just an invitation to abuse, history suggests it is a guarantee.
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Voted for on August 08, 2007 12:53pm
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Politics – Heading toward a separation-of-powers showdown, House Democrats prepared contempt of Congress citations against two White House aides who have refused to comply with subpoenas for information on the abrupt firings of federal prosecutors.
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Politics – Anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan announced in Washington on Monday afternoon that she would challenge Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the 2008 Congressional election.
News – It appears that FOXNews.com will be wearing a red face today, after allowing a massive data leak on its own website and that of a major publishing group. As many as 1.5 million users may have had their personal information compromised, with several gigabytes of data at least temporarily accessible.
Politics – The expansion of democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries intensified the antidemocratic reaction of conservative authoritarianism. Starting first in Italy as an antidemocratic and antisocialist movement after WWI, fascism is in essence the twentieth century version of age old tendencies in politics.
News – A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal.
Movies – CNN, in its statement, noted that it has given Moore multiple opportunities to discuss his concerns about the report on the air. "It's ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we did in our examination of `
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Gay & Lesbian – Another Pride season has arrived and there is so much to celebrate. Legislatures across the country are enacting state anti-discrimination statutes and laws to provide legal protections to people in same-sex relationships.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 11:13pm
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Politics – Sen. John McCain's top three press aides resigned this morning, Republicans close to the campaign said and one of those aides confirmed. The campaign's research director and two other press staffers also stepped down.
Politics – Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) has signed on as cosponsor to a Democratic bill that will require troops to leave Iraq by the end of April 2008, according to a breaking CNN report