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- Medicare isn't mandatory
- 100,000 dead fish + 5,000 dead birds the next day. Arkansas plague?
- Strained States Turning to Laws to Curb Labor Unions
- NO refusal DUI Checkpionts
- raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure
- New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to lose the 'n' word
- New Paper: temperature correlates more with sun activity than CO2
- New Cartoon 'The American Dream'
- G.O.P. Aims Smaller for Cuts to Budget
- Chinese jet fighter 'sighting' raises fears over region's military power balance
- California Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone
- Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds
- Cell-like structure from 2001 "red rain" in India may respark alien life debate
- When States Default: 2011, Meet 1841
- Detroit Public Schools: 40,000 kids to get laptops from stimulus funds
- Pittsburgh man latest to have home accidentally demolished
- 1.1 million jobs were created in 2010 more than Bush created in 8 years.
- The Podium Thread where we ask: what IS Socialism?
- Unconventional Wisdom: No evidence DHS & TSA make us safer.
- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Shot In The Head
- 2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies
- Pakistanis mourn a once tolerant, relaxed nation
- Islam in Europe
- Sibel Edmonds' 9-11 Commission Interview
- The Shame of Opportunistic Legislation (Rep. McCarthy Readies Anti-Gun Bill in wake of AZ violence)
- Define: Conspiracy
- Tom DeLay Sentenced to 3 Years in Money Laundering Case
- 10 Creative Ways States and Cities are Plugging Leaks in Their Budgets
- Video: Sarah Palin Accuses Media of 'Blood Libel'
- Lebanon's government falls as Hezbollah pulls out
- The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
- Arizona Republicans Resign, citing threats from Tea Party
- Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy
- MIT: Hybrids cleaner than coal-powered plug-ins
- Just because I'm paranoid...
- debate: baby formula vs. breastmilk
- Musical Chairs: A Shakeup in Congress?
- Wikileaks... help wake up citizens of Tunisia to finally revolt againt their corrupt gov't
- How my mother's fanatical views tore us apart
- Gun Violence in the United States (just the statistics)
- U.S. journalists back away from WikiLeaks founder
- Gun Deaths vs. Traffic Deaths
- Smoking causes gene damage in minutes
- 'YOU'RE DEAD': Man shot at Giffords Rally arrested at ABCNEWS Town Hall for Threatening Teaparty Member
- Report: Women Should be Allowed to Serve in Combat
- More banks walking away from homes, adding to housing crisis
- Obama appoints Gene Sperling - fox guarding the hen house?
- New Governor Throws Out Income Disclosure Rules
- After Tragedy, Ariz. Lawmakers Eye More Gun Rights
- Divisiveness and intolerance on display at a South Carolina rally on MLK day.
- RPT-Goldman to exclude U.S. from Facebook placement
- Berkeley set to offer sex-change employee benefit
- H.A.A.R.P. and other Similar Antennae
- Carol Braun Moseley rips Bill Clinton's 'betrayal'
- How Facebook Used White Space To Crush Myspace
- Special education costs seen as costly service
- PBS Frontline: Are We Safer? The rise of the new anti-terrorism-industrial complex
- Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance - IN 1798
- Tax System: Too Complex To Be Constitutional?
- Demonic Music's Influence on the Young
- Running the government on 8¢
- Cop Gets 4 1/2 Years in Torture, Coverup, Corruption Case
- (2003)Top 1% of households receive 57.5% of all capital income, yet only pay 34% of the income tax
- 3 Billion and Even More Coming Monies for a Jet Engine that nobody wants
- Keith Olbermann Leaves MSNBC
- Obama to Push New Spending
- House to Vote on Ending Public Financing for Campaigns
- Abortion Foes Increasingly Confident of 'Cultural Shift'
- China's new stealth fighter may use US technology
- Big Brother Watching
- A beef over 'beef' content of Taco Bell tacos fuels this class-action suit
- Watch the State of the Union on SnappyTV.com
- Harry Potter, St. Augustine, and the Confrontation with Evil
- President Obama State of the Union Address
- Is Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?
- A ‘Budget-Busting’ Law? Republicans and Democrats both misrepresent the fiscal effect of the health care law
- In Montana, a plan to empower local sheriffs
- What a Tea Party budget looks like
- Utah lawmakers propose M1911 as official state gun
- Marijuana
- Hollywood’s First Gulag Movie
- Chinese view of Israel and Jews
- Left-wing bias? It's written through the BBC's very DNA
- FactChecking Obama’s Address
- FactChecking the GOP Response
- Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border AND Iranian Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert
- Bush Doctrine Flowering in Tunisia, Egypt, & Yemen
- Mom Jailed For Falsifying Address To Send Kids To Better School District
- 13% of H.S. Biology Teachers Advocate Creationism in Class
- Davos panel sees huge Iranian response to attack
- Blacks ask Senate to reject Ohio Governor Kasich's all-white cabinet
- Egyptians Use Low-Tech Gadgets to Get Around Communications Block
- Surprisingly good source for information out of Egypt...
- Should we be teaching the competition?
- California man arrested with explosives outside Dearborn Islamic center
- House Republicans Plan to Redefine Rape to change abortion laws
- Debate: Who owns the land?
- Ga. Lawmaker Proposes Doing Away With Driver's Licenses
- Sen. Schumer on the Three Branches of Government
- Jordan's king fires Cabinet amid protests
- Al Gore: An answer for Bill [MMGW]
- Amnesty urges UK to intervene in Manning case
- Anti-Abortion Undercover Video Enflames Debate Over Planned Parenthood
- Privacy Is Dead: Long Live Surveillance Symmetry
- Texas High School Senior Fined for Cursing At School
- Supreme Court Rejects 5 Rulings in a Row From West Coast Bench
- So, The Tea Party is racist because of some signs held by SOME people at protests...
- Obama on Education.
- Where's the outrage?
- Mubarak has $70 Billion Stashed Away, Experts Estimate....
- UK schools introduce gay math, geography and science
- Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew: we can’t integrate Muslims
- Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals
- Why do Conservatives look up to Ronald Reagan ?
- Why do Liberals look up to Ronald Reagan ?
- Hidden Faith of The Founding Fathers
- Obama Vows to 'Knock Down' Business Barriers
- Resolved: Black History Month Increases Racial Animosity and Hate Crimes
- Is Porn Affecting the Libido of the American Male?
- Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
- House Fails to Pass Bill to Renew Patriot Act Provisions
- Pew Forum Quiz: How much do you know about religion?
- Culture of violence: Gun crime goes up by 89% in a decade
- Lawmakers oppose federal bailout for states
- Is it OK for insurance companies to "make anti-vaccine parents pay higher premiums"?
- GOP Rep. Chris Lee resigns over shirtless photo on Web
- Pretty powerful stuff. Something for both believers and non-believers to think about.
- AP sources: Obama to propose cuts in heating aid
- Teen victim of a car crash charged with rape one year later
- Is the Govt's Internet Kill Switch a violation of Free Speech?
- Egyptians wins freedom, China and other authoritarian regimes censor the news
- GOP unveils next round of cuts
- Firefighters forced to participate in gay pride parade win legal battle
- Congressman Ron Paul Wins Big in 2011 CPAC Presidential Straw Poll
- On the first day GOP Congress refuses to follow their own rules
- Book: Abraham Lincoln sought to deport freed slaves
- Barack Obama: Bush 2.0 Professional version: Proposes $3.73 Trillion budget
- Governing Vehicle Efficiency
- Plastic pellet incident at Va. school ends in expulsion, assault charges
- Town Billed $300K To Clean School Roofs
- Should government protect the few or trust the majority?
- Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in US
- FBI Coverup? Panel Review Questions FBI Theory in Anthrax Attacks
- President Obama honors former President Bush with Medal of Freedom
- Fox News uses Wrong CPAC Video in Interview with Straw Poll Winner Ron Paul
- Prisoners stole millions from the IRS in 2009
- Is this cartoon racist?
- South Dakota Mulls Changes to a Bill Whose Language Could Make Killing in Defense of the Unborn 'Justifiable'
- Iraqi: I'm proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq
- Teachers Unions shut down Madison Schools shut down for 3rd straight day
- Clarence Thomas: Time for Impeachment?
- Raymond Davis, U.S black-op?, Accused of Killing Two Pakistanis Officals in Pakistan
- A Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim ..... To an American-Jewish friend.
- Voice of America brodcasts to China signing off
- NRC Censors Flub Opportunity to Move Yucca Debate Forward
- Fiscal conservatives: Would you be ok cutting Army sponsorship to NASCAR? One liberal's revenge over proposed NPR defunding by GOP
- Student suspended after he gives unapproved campaign speech.
- U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Israeli Settlements
- Dallas County Commissioner: “All of you are white. Go to hell!”
- Should Some Federal Holidays = A Day Off of Work?
- What is the purpose of unions in these modern times?
- House Republicans cut Border Security Budget
- Hero's unwelcome Wounded Iraq vet jeered at Columbia
- Curious about liberal deficit opinion (going forward)
- Got to love it,Kwame R. Brown orders loaded SUV for DC use
- Indiana's Democratic Lawmakers Imitate Wisconsin, Flee State
- Labor Union President Richard Trumka Has Conversations with White House Everyday
- Pakistan murder suspect and CIA Black-ops Raymond Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda
- Detroit to Shut Down Half of Its Public Schools to Kill Deficit
- WI Gov. Scott Walker Pranked by Reporter Posing as Billionaire Conservative Activist David Koch
- Baja Arizona: America's 51st state?
- How Government Unions Became So Powerful
- Democrats/Unions/Obama - "Violent Rhetoric OK Now"
- Would we have Martin Luther King Jr. Day if he was not assassinated?
- US admin pays hundreds of millions for foreign mosques
- Man Who Threatened 'South Park' Creators Gets 25 Years In Prison
- House members probe $535-million loan guarantee by Obama Energy Dept. for Solyndra solar plant
- Transparency, Lobbyists, and Barry
- Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning
- Bill Clinton: Too much ethanol could spark food riots
- NY Magazine: Obama Never Had Any Contact With Half a Dozen Top Cabinet Members in First Two Years
- Obama administration won't defend Defense of Marriage Act
- Smoking in Public Banned in NYC
- Pro-Union Demonstrations Spreading From State to State
- Do market forces work in education?
- Westboro Baptist Church gets hacked during interview
- How much is a teacher worth to YOU?
- The Medicaid Wrecking Ball
- Libya Muammar Gaddafi blames Bin Laden, terrorists, and drugs for uprising.. Is OBL the new scapegoat to blame for the world's problems?
- Bill Gates - How teacher development could revolutionize our schools
- Economist's Forecast for Libya: Calm and Peaceful
- Ask a public employee.
- Iran threatens to boycot 2012 Olympics
- Undesirable Ladies
- Walker's vengence? Wis. Schools Face Deep Cuts Under Gov.'s Budget
- Are you sick of the grossly overpaid teacher?
- Supreme Court rules in favor of church that pickets funerals
- Boise County files for bankruptcy
- Paid Sick Leave Bill Stirs Controversy
- Illinois Officials Spar Over Order to Make List of Gun Owners Public
- Consumer Reports: GM's Volt 'doesn't really make a lot of sense'
- The Tea Party and its losing of legitimacy (self marginalization)
- Darkfrog's "How religion poisons everything" thread
- GOP spending plan would cost 700,000 jobs, new report says
- Carry-on bags costing TSA millions a year
- ATF Stung in Sting?
- GAO To Feds: Replace Dollar Bills With Coins
- Drop your guns of we'll shoot (with BEENBAGS)
- Who's pocketing all this increase in cost of fuel?
- Court rules for inmate who wants DNA testing
- Utah Approves Guest Worker Program for Illegal Immigrants
- Protest in Saudi Arabia
- HHS Secretary Sebelius admits to double-counting in Obamacare budget
- Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages
- Snowe and Collins get their 30 pieces of Silver
- NPR seals its defunding fate...
- Can you get better medical care by taking personal responsability?
- IRS Math: $600 Million = $4 Billion
- Man who murdered and ate a 5 year old boy to be released from prison
- Buh Bye Collective Bargaining for State Workers in WI...
- Preview of coming attractions - Total control of local gummint by the state.
- Pimco’s Gross Eliminates Government Debt From Total Return Fund
- Real numbers and info: Public Unions, State Budgets, and Commentary
- CRS report shows much higher US oil, gas reserve levels than previously thought
- Illinois Governor Signs Amazon Internet Sales Tax Law
- Have Dutch women found the secret to happiness?
- NFLPA votes to decertify, Season now officially in jeopardy
- Suspect in MLK Bomb Tied to Racist Movement
- Is nuclear power safe?
- Wisconsin Firefighters Shut Down Bank That Funded Gov. Walker
- The Lowering of Standards for the sake of "Diversity"....
- Current FY: Interest is $1,265,701,765.47 ($1.266B) per DAY
- Where is the looting in Japan?
- Public union spending on politics vs. company spending
- Signs, signs, everywhere signs: Seeing God in tsunamis and everyday events
- Fat Head vs Super Size Me
- The Christian roots and foundations of the USA
- Russia Hikes Price of Rocket Rides for U.S. Astronauts to $63 Million
- Should the Tea Party embrace cities?
- Do you support Space Based Self Defense Systems?
- Miami-Dade Voters May Oust Mayor in Largest Municipal Recall
- UCLA Student's YouTube Rant “Asians in the Library” Causes Uproar
- The concept of blood money
- How to save a state's budget??? Start a bank!!
- Green Development? Not in My (Liberal) Backyard
- Mandatory Spending to Exceed all Federal Revenues — 50 Years Ahead of Schedule
- IL Rep. Robert Rita alleged felon ineligible for office but has served five terms
- Democrats would never...... Would they?
- U.N. Approves Airstrikes to Halt Attacks by Qaddafi
- Ariz. Senate rejects illegal immigration bills