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Palin Revives Death Panels; Boobs Against Breast Cancer; and the Anti-Gay Bullying Crisis
Don’t look now, but Sarah Palin is back on her death panel kick, just in time for Halloween. No, really, don’t look. It just encourages the former governor of …
News in Brief: Divisive DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee to Resign, and More
DC Schools Chief Michelle Rhee to Resign
Chinese Communist Party Elders Call for Free Speech Rights
Beijing - Almost two dozen Chinese Communist Party elders have signed a petition demanding that the “black hands” of government censorship in China be dismantled in favor of the …
Whitman World: The Rich Are Different From You and Me and It’s Not the Money
“The rich are different from you and me,” novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald reputedly told his friend, Ernest Hemingway. Who is supposed to have responded, “Yeah, they have more money.” …
Connie Schultz | A Brief Tutorial on Blue-Collar Menswear
To state the obvious: I am not a man. So I don't know what it feels like to be a guy who makes his living wearing a hard hat …
Supreme Court Appears Split by Infant Vaccination Case
Washington - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard argument in a dispute over whether the family of an infant who suffered a severe reaction to a vaccine can …
Jim Hightower | Bleeding in Afghanistan
Are you aware that America has now been at war for nearly a decade? We've been fighting, bleeding and dying in two hellacious, multitrillion-dollar conflagrations since 2001 — and …
Tory vs. Voodoo Conservatism
Washington - I'm not a witch. But if I were, the first spell I'd cast would be to turn House Minority Leader John Boehner into British Prime Minister David …
This Modern World: The News From Six Months From Now, Maybe
Proposed Chuitna Coal Mine in Alaska Threatens Salmon
Cook Inlet Keeper Dennis Gann explains the proposed Barrick Golds and PacRim Coals Chuitna mine in Alaska and it's detrimental impact upon Salmon. For More Information Read: Jeanne Devon …