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McCain Vows To Take On Entitlement Plans
Politics – In a move to assuage Conservatives, John McCain has vowed to reduce spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security. This is a dramatic move for him, but has proved difficult to execute for every other politician who has tried it.
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Iraq Asks for Timetable for U.S. Withdrawal
News – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.
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(uk.reuters.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 3 sinks
Is This the Dumbest Generation?
News – Younger Americans stumped in knowledge tests in the visually driven info age.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 101 votes / 2 sinks
Oil's Rapid Rise Stirs Talk of $200 a Barrel This Year
Money – Oil's historic ascent from $100 to nearly $150 a barrel in just six months is lending weight to a far grimmer prediction: Crude could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 172 votes / 23 sinks
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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(populistamerica.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 144 votes / 7 sinks
Moshing for Jesus at "Christian Woodstock"
News – A music festival with heavy metal, punk, hip-hop and pop music might seem like an unusual place to get baptized, but Creation is a festival with strict rules: no alcohol, no drugs and no sex before marriage.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 115 votes / 36 sinks
Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror
Do No Evil – Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul
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(timesonline.co.uk)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 96 votes / 10 sinks
Kerry: McCain's Judgment Is Dangerous
Politics – Says Republican Candidate Is A "Changed Man" For Siding With Bush On War, Economy, Energy
This story has mostly positive ratings. 43 votes / 9 sinks
DRILL, & SAVE, NOW ...
Politics – Funny how quickly $4-a-gallon gas can smoke out hypocrites - as last week's Pew Research poll, citing a dramatic spike in the share of Americans demanding more energy sources and less environmental protection, shows.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 159 votes / 3 sinks
The end of the culture wars?
Politics – Hot-button politics has turned out to be cumulatively disastrous for America. Politicians warred over narrow, symbolic issues while real problems that didn't fit the culture war paradigm - lack of access to healthcare, global warming, the US occupation of Iraq grew and festered. Have the electorate finally had enough of the BS?
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 188 votes / 27 sinks
FOX News Doctors NY Times Photos
Television – Fox News has sunk to a new low. On Wednesday, the network displayed photos that its editors had doctored of two New York Times employees--reporter Jacques Steinberg, and editor Steven Radcliffe. The before and after photos can be seen here.
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Romney: Obama Shows 'Frightening Naivete'
Politics – Barack Obama's approach to the war on terror shows "frightening naivetÃ;©. Even the peaceniks of the last decade have recognized that the pre-911 thinking of the early 1990s was wrong," Romney says.
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Unfair and unbalanced: Fox News' coverage of Obama tops the bias scale
Television – Fox News, whose slogan is "Fair and Balanced," seems to have gone above and beyond in its anti-Obama rhetoric. Fox News seems to be the willing source of many of the smears and have displayed an unhealthy willingness to pass on as fact any unsourced or unfounded allegation that will put the Obamas in the worst light possible.
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Military service: A diminished campaign asset?
Politics – For McCain, getting shot down and enduring as a POW has been a political asset. Now Clark was suggesting that the "getting shot down" part was an irrelevant--at least as far as being a credential for the White House.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rush Signs thru 2016; $400Mil deal shatters records
Celebrities – The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
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