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Sixth Advertiser Drops Limbaugh Despite “Apology“
Moments ago, Carbonite – a company providing backup software for computers – announced that it will no longer advertise on Rush Limbaugh’s show. CEO David Friend made clear in …
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Israel’s Assassins and Tehran’s Killers (2)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. (Photo: Iranian President's Office via The New York Times) They are dying one by one. …
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Accord Reached Settling Lawsuit Over BP Oil Spill
Abandoned, oil-soaked snare boom sits in the grass near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, August 2, 2010. (Photo: Jeff Haller / The New York Times) BP and the lawyers …
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Drug Lobby Gave $9.4 million to Nonprofits That Spent Big on 2010 Election
The drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to elect federal candidates during the 2010 election, an iWatch News analysis of …
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Rick Santorum on Drugs
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Rick Santorum has taken the role as the family values candidate in the GOP presidential primary and won a few upsets in the …
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Graph: Republican Hyper-Partisanship and the Hyper-Polarization Of Congress
Announcing her intention to retire yesterday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) decried the “atmosphere of polarization” that she finds “frustrating.” While Snowe didn’t assign responsibility for the current climate of …
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New Map Shows Location of Nation’s Most Toxic Industrial Boilers
Washington - Industries in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina will have the most catching up to do when—and if—EPA begins forcing factory owners to tackle toxic emissions from …
What Are Iran’s Intentions?
As tensions escalate, eerie echoes of the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are in the air.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Time to Cut the Oil Barons Off, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Spring Preview: Protesters Nationwide Occupy Corporations, Education
(Photo: Lauriel-Arwen / Flickr) The past week has proven to be something of a resurgence for Occupy Wall Street with two major protests featuring thousands of activists …