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Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ted Turner - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.

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Why Is the ACLU Helping the Richest Americans Buy Our Elections?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Steven Rosenfeld - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - The American Civil Liberties Union has earned its reputation as the nation’s foremost legal opponent of government censorship and defender of First Amendment political speech. But increasingly, this national organization with 500,000 members and a $70 million annual budget has another legacy—helping the wealthiest Americans and institutions spend unlimited sums on elections.

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Michael Moore Remembers Mitt Romney's Parents: 'This Apple Has Fallen Far From The Tree' (VIDEO)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore, Rachel Maddow - Feb. 21 (Interview) - video

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OpEdNews - Article: Fickle Fingers of Hate: Fringe Hoaxes, Conspiracies & Ambushes

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - The GOP world is shifting from Karl Rove's focus on wedge issues and the politics of personal attack to full-time, perpetual, delusional hoaxes, conspiracies, and elitist ambushes. It's not a positive shift but it has its amusing sides.

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The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Chronicle of Higher Education - By Timothy Messer-Kruse - Feb. 20 (Opinion) - For the past 10 years I've immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I've written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a presumption of expertise on the subject. Not, however, on Wikipedia. The bomb thrown during an anarchist rally in Chicago sparked America's first Red Scare, a high-profile show trial, and a worldwide clemency movement for the seven condemned men. Today the martyrs' graves are a national historic site, the location of the bombing is marked by a public sculpture, and the event is recounted in most American history textbooks. Its Wikipedia entry is detailed and elaborate.

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New Labor Rules for Home Care Workers on the Table

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:00:04 -0800

Women's eNews - Feb. 20 - The elder care industry is growing as the U.S. population ages. A rule to extend federal wage protections to this predominantly female work force is in public comment stage.

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Billionaire Bigot Bankrolling Mitt Romney

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Kos - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - In a column sure to rain lawsuit threats down upon him, Glenn Greenwald exposes many of the scandals surrounding Mitt Romney's national finance co-chair, Idahoan Frank VanderSloot. VanderSloot is a billionaire whose deep pockets have funded no small number of Idaho's political figures. As Greenwald details, his business practices have drawn plenty of unwanted attention, as has his involvement in numerous far-right causes, particularly his anti-gay activism, including running a billboard campaign against Idaho Public Television for running a documentary about teachers talking about lesbian and gay issues in age-appropriate ways. His wife, Belinda, donated $100,000 to California's Prop 8 campaign.

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WATCH: Amy Poehler & Seth Meyers Sound Off On Birth Control

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers - Feb. 19 (Comedy News) - Amy Poehler got back to her "Weekend Update" roots on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend when she joined former co-host Seth Meyers for a "Really?!?"...

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Op-Ed Contributor: Chinese Labor, Cheap No More

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michelle Loyalka, New York Times - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - The cheap labor that has made China’s factories nearly unbeatable is not so cheap anymore.

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Moochers Against Welfare

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Economist's View - By Paul Krugman: - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - many beneficiaries of government programs seem confused about their own place in the system. She tells us that 44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 percent of those on Medicare say that they “have not used a government program.” Presumably, then, voters imagine that pledges to slash government spending mean cutting programs for the idle poor, not things they themselves count on. And this is a confusion politicians deliberately encourage. For example, when Mr. Romney responded to the new Obama budget, he condemned Mr. Obama for not taking on entitlement spending — and, in the very next breath, attacked him for cutting Medicare.

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Happy Savages: What We Did to the Marshall Islanders

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Robert Koehler - Feb. 16 (Review) - Robert C. Koehler "Thirty seconds to zero . . . six, five, four, three, two, one." "Castle Bravo" -- Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954 Suddenly a big orange blossom fills the screen, accompanied by ukuleles and lovely — I mean Strangelovian — Polynesian music. The blossom is actually Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, the largest U.S. test ever, detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. read ...

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Jon Stewart Slams Liz Trotta's Views On Sexual Assault On Women In Military (VIDEO)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katia McGlynn, Jon Stewart - Feb. 15 (Comedy News) - Fox News contributor Liz Trotta made headlines Sunday when she reacted to a 64% rise in violent sexual assaults in the miltary by saying "What did they expect? These people are in close contact," among other controversial remarks.

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10 Memorable Quotes From The Start-up of YOU

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Dan Schawbel - Feb. 15 - Subscribe to my updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel. Last week I received a signed copy of The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman, the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn, a site that just hit 150 million users! On it?s debut today, it hit #1 on Amazon, which is no surprise since Reid has built up an enormous ...

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Santorum living in stone-age

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is unhappy with last week's compromise over whether Catholic institutions should be required to cover contraception for their employees, arguing that birth control "shouldn't be covered by insurance at all."

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LZ: Michigan to Romney: Go away

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By LZ Garnderson - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - That's why the characterization of Rick Santorum polling well in Romney's backyard is a bit misguided. The truth is, many of us disowned that two-faced liar years ago. We remember how, back in 2008, Romney came home promising to do all he could to save the auto industry. And we believed him and voted for him and he won the primary here. Then, after he dropped out of the race, he wrote a New York Times op-ed that carried the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The opening sentence: "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

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Shocker: Video of live woolly mammoth not entirely authentic (+video)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - Footage from a Russian filmmaker's personal history project was altered to create a widely discussed – and now thoroughly debunked – sighting of a woolly mammoth. ...

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'The Vow' leads strong pre-Valentine's weekend at box office

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 14 - 'The Vow,' starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, took in $41.7 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday in the biggest domestic opening so far this year, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday. ...

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Bill Maher Mocks Newt Gingrich Attack On New York 'Elites' (VIDEO)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Feb. 13 (Comedy News) - The current primary race has heard its fair share of pro-"Real America" and anti-"Liberal Elite" talk thus far, but nothing stood out to comedian Bill Maher quite like Newt Gingrich's recent remarks about New Yorkers.

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Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0800

Dawn - By Afp - Feb. 13 - The strangulation of the Internet is making life very difficult for many Iranian businesses.—File photo Access to the Internet’s most-used sites and tools is being choked in Iran at a politically charged period, blocking communication channels for local

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Phoenix rising: Can “the world’s least sustainable city” go green?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:35:00 -0800

Grist - By Greg Hanscom - Feb. 13 - What was the most surprising thing that came out of Andrew Ross’s two-year research stint in Phoenix, Ariz.? For my money, it’s this: People who live there (weirdly) don’t expect their desert civilization to collapse around them at any moment. “One of Ne

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Bosnian Serb Film Distributor Won't Screen New Jolie Film

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:44:00 -0800

Radio Free Europe - Feb. 13 - The sole film distributor in the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Herzegovina is refusing to screen a new movie written and directed by Angelina Jolie and set during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. Film distributor Vladimir Ljevak said he did not think Jolie's film

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Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement - The Guardian

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Feb. 13 - Vintage ketch sets sail to launch slow cargo movement The Guardian The hope is that, with this symbolic journey, Irene – a lovely wooden ketch built in Somerset in 1907 to transport bricks and tiles – will blaze a trail for wind-powered cargo ships. The project, New Dawn Traders, was hatched by Jamie Pike, ... and ...

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"MyFacts"

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Doonesbury - By Gary Trudeau - Feb. 12 (Cartoon) - This week, the Doonesbury comic strip takes on "MyFacts", a fictional online service that packages "faux facts" to support anyone's ideology, from creationism to 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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Maine Caucus Offers an Opportunity for Paul

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - The state has been fertile territory for independent candidates, which could represent an opportunity for Ron Paul, the only remaining Republican candidate who has yet to win a state.

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No single diet will work for all diabetics

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:01:24 -0800

USA Today - Feb. 12 - People with the disease can eat from a range of healthy choices, experts say. The key is to control your blood sugar.

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