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Howie Klein: Just makes you wonder if these kinds of people become Republicans or if being a Republican makes you like this.
This post, written by Howie Klein, originally appeared on Down With Tyranny!
According to today's Times-Picayune David Diape..
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The death of Alva Mae Groves on Aug. 9 of this year went largely unnoticed outside of her family and fellow inmates at the Tallahassee Federal Corrections Institution, where she lived out the last 13 years of her life. She never went to high school, lived..
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Since 1990, over 10.4 million Americans have been busted for pot. When will we recognize it's time to stand up to the war on harmless pot smoking?
What would cops do without weed? For one thing, they'd sure spend a lot less time arresting and processin..
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Alan Greenspan's remarks in context.
Here is the sentence in The Age of Turbulence, the 531-page memoir of former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, that caused so much turbulence in Washington last week: "I am saddened that it is politically inconv..
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The fraudulence of the "War on Terror" is clearly revealed by looking at the pattern of actions that preceded and followed its launch.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be mainta..
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Jon Soltz: My challenge to you, Rush, is to have me on your show so you can say all of this again, right to the face of someone who served in Iraq.
As Media Matters reported today, Rush Limbaugh, on his show said that those troops who come home and wan..
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Alex Jung: Angry students and faculty call for the firing of a college newspaper editor at their own peril.
The Sept. 21 editorial of The Rocky Mountain Collegian was a taunt: TASER THIS...FUCK BUSH. Students groups like the College Republicans and fac..
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Howie Klein: After Bush's lame speech on keeping the war going for a decade, the Democrats came out swinging.
If you didn't listen to Bush's lame plan to keep the war going for a decade, here's the full text. Perhaps someone can name the 36 countries f..
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The video released last week by Osama bin Laden got very different receptions in the American and Arab media.
If I asked you which station devoted more attention to Osama bin Laden's latest videotape, your answer would most likely be Al Jazeera. Well,..
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How Bush & Co. have taken the U.S. from being the object of the world's sympathy to the object of their scorn.
President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the Administrat..
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Those who say eating local is not always the best choice for the planet are forgetting one very important part of the equation: community.
Some 30 years ago NASA came up with another BIG idea. Assemble vast solar electric arrays in space and beam the e..
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Colleges and universities today are turning teenagers into full-fledged citizens of our economy by introducing them to a lifetime of debt.
Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn them into full-..
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Univision's presidential candidates debate stressed that Latino voters and their media have the power to swing things in '08.
Spanish-speaking Latino candidate Bill Richardson looked like he'd swallowed a big burrito when asked en Espanol, "Would you b..
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A controversial testosterone patch, touted as a way to boost women's sex drives, is now on the market in Europe. Should the U.S. be next?
The arrival on the European market of a female-targeted testosterone patch to treat low sex desire caused by menop..
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Longtime gay activist Michael Rogers said, "It was simply no longer acceptable for me to sit there and watch a political party filled with so many closeted gay men beat up on gay Americans."
Fed up with Republican attacks on gay marriage, longtime gay..
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Elliot Cohen, author of The Last Days of Democracy, argues that the United States is in political and cultural decline, with media and telecommunications giants engaged in "a well-organized effort to hijack America."
James Harris: On the phone we are t..
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A new organization is leading the fight to stop Bush from trampling on our Constitution and our rights. Find out how to join them.
At no time in our country's history has the abuse of power by the executive branch been more flagrant and more dangerous..
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Watch television in countries with supposedly primitive media, and after a while you will be shocked at the technologically mediated and shape-shifted image of the world presented to Americans.
On televisions you see police cars surround the car of a "..
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Discoveries about how chemicals and environmental toxins interact with our DNA and make us susceptible to disease could revolutionize our concept of illness.
This story is reprinted from OnEarth magazine and was written by Laura Wright, the senior edit..
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Obama seems to be his own greatest enemy when it comes to his grasp of foreign policy.
The instant Barack Obama tossed his hat in the presidential ring the big knock against him was that he didn't know a darn thing about foreign policy. And that his gr..
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