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In the battle over whether or not the “tea party tent†will include hardliner opponents of immigration and immigration reform, the rhetoric is heating up. 
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Kucinich: Insurance industry gets $70 billion dollars a year, forces people to buy private insurance, locks in five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases.
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Marjah isn't even a town, but rather one of the clearest and most dramatic examples of a war of perception as outlined in the US's counter-insurgency doctrine.
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 This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
Hotline has a helpful whip count on House members’ position o
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 You can’t but help admire Tom Friedman’s enthusiasm for technological innovations. The NY Times columnist and mega
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 During the Bush administration, “reconciliation” was used to pass the 2001 Tax Cuts, which primarily benefitted wealthy A
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 There were grumblings from all corners of the AFL-CIO at its winter meeting in Orlando recently. “Disappointment”
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 Larry Beresford challenges the latest meme that hospice patients have declined in number recently. He notes that, among others
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 On Monday’s Daily Show, Stewart called into question the mainstream media’s amnesiac view of Iraq’s election
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 It’s been sad to watch freshmen Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) struggles of late. Just six days ago, Massa announced
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 Written by Rebecca Sive for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
On
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 Oddly, while battles elsewhere over marriage equality for LGBT folks have garnered great attention from the national media, he
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Critics are worried the law will open up a Pandora's box of unintended legal consequences.
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The media complain about the explosion of illegal outdoor cultivation in our national parks, but have zero diagnosis about why it's happening.
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Banking behemoths don't deserve your business. But your local credit union could be the right financial fit.
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What happens to all those chimps who've endured hell for our benefit? The lucky few get to retire to their own private island in Florida.
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The problem today for most isn't this recession, it's that except for the top 10 percent, average household income hasn't changed a bit for 10 to 20 years.
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At first it seemed Obama was on track to make good on his campaign promise of halting military commissions. Instead, he's reviving the same system he once abhorred.
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The state senator arrested leaving a gay club joined a long and illustrious tradition of double-talking, double-living conservative figures.
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In "For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question" Mac McClelland chronicles the 60-year genocide the Burmese government has waged against an ethnic minority.
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Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson explains why it's equality, and not high income, that makes a society thrive.
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 Lucky visitors to the upcoming SXSW film festival in Austin this weekend have a chance to see the opening of a new documentary
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 Roll Call and others are reporting that the White House meeting President Obama and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey
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There are eight shark species that haven't received the media attention lavished on the high-profile bluefin -- but which, in some cases, hover even closer to extinction.
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 Looks like Liz Cheney et al. need to do a better job convincing Americans that Obama’s handling of national security is
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 One of the major objectives of the bubble barons investigation is to figure out where, exactly, all that money is going. Where
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 Since McCain lost the election to Obama in 2008, there’s been no shortage of woe-is-me attacks from Sarah Palin, whoR
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 This post was originally published in the Washington Monthly.
President Obama will host two rallies in support of health care
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 Editor’s Note: Last week, AlterNet ran an article that featured a piece by Chris Hedges and another by Rabbi Michael Ler
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 A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.’s not-so-secret dr
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 Written by Imane Khachani for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
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 This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
I wonder if this is a bluff:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said in a pre
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 This post was originally published on Think Progress.
Lawmakers in Florida are hoping to pass a $75 million incentive packag
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 Cross-posted from RaceWire
By Michelle Chen
After the mistakes he made as a kid nearly got him kicked out of the country, Qing
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 Aung San Sun Kyi, Nelson Mandella, Chief Joseph, Harvey Milk — teach us! Revolution aint what it used to be.
Emma Gold
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 I hate to admit that neocon stalwart Robert Kagan can be right about anything. But it’s hard to argue with his latest observ
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 On March 2, “Keep America Safe,” the neo-con think tank run by Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol, released a video demanding inf
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 “In the US Senate, Mother Jones was once called the ‘grandmother of all agitators.’ She replied that it was
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 I don’t much care whether or not Kathryn Bigelow is a good feminist in “the personal is political” sense of
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 Written by Lynn Paltrow for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
On
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 If you believe what the IMF says … you must be an executive with Goldman Sachs. No, wait, I take that back. You must
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 By Keith Kamisugi, Communications Director, Equal Justice Society, Race-Talk contributor
I had lunch a few months ago with Bil
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 This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
While Friedrich Nietzsche was often critical of Judaism, he was als
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 Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay — who’s clearly earned the right to pass moral judgement — has an exp
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Travel connects people with people. It helps us fit more compatibly into a shrinking world. And it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation.
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 This post was originally published in the Washington Monthly.
At various times throughout the health care reform process, vari
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 This post was written by Max Bergmann for Think Progress.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s foreign policy mytholo
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 (In honor of tonight’s Academy Awards, which I probably won’t watch, I’m cross-posting my review of Inglouri
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 According to the CDC almost 50% of American teens have had sex. Of those, 61% used a condom the last time they did.
That’
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 The Los Angeles Times had the story Thursday evening that the Obama administration – including the President himself – was
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 This post first appeared on Think Progress.
Just weeks after Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) refused to renew an executive order tha
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 This post first appeared on Food Politics.
I’m not sure why this would be news to anyone who has taken a toddler to a grocer
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 Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a comprom
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Climate legislation is returning to the Senate’s docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this version, a comprom
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 Things are going in the wrong direction these days when it comes to water pollution and New York Times writers Charles Duhigg
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 This is what must make it hard for people working inside the Obama administration. No sooner does the White House start talkin
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 The breakfast chain Denny’s apologized yesterday for an advertisement that critics say made light of the Irish Potato Famine
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 “The green rolling hills of West Virginia
Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know
But someday I’ll go back to
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 Those who challenge the teaching of creationism — the notion that the authoritative text for the explanation for the ear
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 On The Daily Show Thursday (3/4/10), Stewart discovered the Republicans’ new “nuclear option:” With all othe
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 Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
For
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 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that as of February 2010, the unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent, and the official
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 By Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program at NYLPI, Race-Talk contributor
Every year, the South Asian Bar Assoc
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 Sometimes I just shake my head in dismay. As I have asserted many times in my writings here and elsewhere, one of the great di
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The author of a study claiming liberals and atheists are smarter than conservatives and believers is called 'great idiot of social science' by prominent evolutionary biologist.
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The evidence is overwhelming that these new superbugs are at least partially a result of dosing farm animals with subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics added to their feed.
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 Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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Today, Alternet published a piece I wrote about San Francisco giving gardeners sewage sludge under the guise of free “or
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