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Uninsured Aurora Victim Could Face $2 Million in Medical Bills
Caleb Medley was shot in the eye in the Aurora movie theater shooting and remains in the intensive care unit in an induced coma. Medley sustained the terrible injuries …

Religious and Free-Market Fundamentalism Have More in Common Than Their Fans in the Tea Party
Because fundamentalists are ideologically driven, they tend to reject basic facts that do not comport with their ideology.

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FDA and GE: Extra Radiation? Who Cares?
Food and Drug Administration officials reacted to suspected whistleblowing by some of its scientists, about excessive radiation from medical imaging devices, by spying on several. But the larger issue …

Election Countdown 2012: The Head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources Sees Global Warming as a Good Thing, and More
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservationu2019s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a …

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FDA Makes It Official: BPA Can’t Be Used in Baby Bottles and Cups
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that baby bottles and childrenu2019s drinking cups could no longer contain bisphenol A, or BPA, an estrogen-mimicking industrial chemical used in some …

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It’s a Great Day to Act to Cut the Pentagon Budget
Conventional wisdom is that the automatic cuts in the Budget Control Act won't happen; at the end of the day, they will be replaced by a package of revenue …

Election Countdown 2012: One Person Is Confirmed Dead After an Oil and Natural Gas Well Explosion in Ohio, and More
These [satellite] images appear to support the rumored allegations [that] drillers and frackers may have been driving tanker trucks offroad, opening the valve on the tank while driving, and …

The Election Reflects America’s Conservative Era
This year's presidential campaign is taking place within an extremely conservative era in American political history that will substantially influence the domestic and foreign priorities of the next administration, …

Will Your State Refuse to Provide Medicaid Coverage to Needy Adults?
It is precisely the states that could most benefit from the increased coverage under ACA's Medicaid expansion provision that seem least willing to participate in the plan.

Why the Reproductive Rights Movement Must Abandon the Term “Abortion“
Many conservative Republicans, as well as the official Catholic Church, believe the metaphor that Fertilized Eggs Are People and that preventing such egg-people from being implanted in the womb …