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Wearing Green for Iran? What About the People of Iraq and Afghanistan?

Americans express outrage and solidarity on behalf of the people of Iran; meanwhile innocent people die every day with our tax dollars.

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Note to GOP Blowhards: All Judges Are 'Activist Judges'

All justices rely on their past experiences, ideologies, biases, prejudices, and yes -- the most dreaded of human qualities -- empathy.

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U.S. and India Agree: It's Easier to Blow Up the Planet Than Save It

The U.S. and India had a much easier time negotiating a multi-billion dollar arms deal than an agreement to protect the environment.

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David Sedaris Talks Health Reform, Kidney Stones And Asks: Was Hitler Really...

"To quote Bill Maher," Sedaris said in an online chat, "I haven't seen this many pissed off old white people since they canceled 'Murder She Wrote.'"

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NYT Invites You to Shed a Tear For the Super-Rich (While Reminding You How...

The New York Times has apparently failed to learn the most basic lessons from the global financial disaster.

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Obama Has Betrayed the Progressives Who Got Him Elected -- So Now What Do We Do?

Total withdrawal dates and single-payer healthcare were never seriously part of the agenda. They were nice, empty promises, made to get elected.

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In a Big Labor Day "F*ck You" to Working People, Sen. Max Baucus Continues to...

Baucus refuses to support the public option even though a majority of his constituents say they support it.

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On the Public Option, Consider the "Trigger" Pulled

Serious reform doesn’t mean capitulating to the private healthcare industry, and then Obama calling it “the public option.”

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Americans Are More Confused About Health Care Reform Than Ever: Thanks...

A media consumed with tracking Obama's popularity has failed to educate the American citizenry about the key elements of the debate.

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Nazipalooza: A Closer Look at the Right's Obsession With Obama/Holocaust Imagery

The difference between protesting "Obamacare" and protesting Bush's wars is simple: Bush was acting illegally; Obama is pushing for universal health care.

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The Stupidity of "Zero-Tolerance": 6-Year-Old Suspended For Bringing Food...

What can this teach us about U.S. foreign policy? Quite a lot, actually.

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Peru Will Hold Torturers Accountable: Why Can't the U.S. Do the Same?

The door will be left open for future abuses as long as the U.S. skirts the issue.

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Good News Everyone, The Economic Crisis Is Over! (Right?)

There's a disconnect between official economic figures like GDP, "third quarter growth," and average citizens' lives.

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How Anti-Choice Dems and Mike Huckabee Could Team Up to Screw Over America's...

Half of America wants to see 'President Huck' in 2012. Because of him and conservative Democrats, women have a tough fight ahead.

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Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the...

T.A. Frank, a think tank lackey, has a solution to America's housing problem: Ship all the poor black and Hispanic people to abandoned McMansions.

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Rick Warren Refuses to Condemn Death Penalty for Homosexuals

Warren refuses to reject the radical ideas of Martin Ssempa, a rabidly anti-choice and anti-gay Ugandan pastor who has visited to his Saddleback Church.

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How Obama and Valerie Jarrett Helped Launch Their Political Careers in an...

Developers and investors got rich on a project that destroyed the homes of thousands of Chicago's poorest black residents.

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The Only Story You'll Ever Need to Read to Demand an End to All Wars

Like a lot of soldiers, Pvt. Steven Dale Green's heinous acts in Iraq led him to PTSD and suicide.This article originally appeared on AllisonKilkenny.com, and is reprinted here with their...

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Cecily McMillan's Trial Is an Attack on Our Right to Protest

Three months might seem like a light sentence. But Occupy was suppressed by the heavy hand of police. On Monday, Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan was sentenced to three months in jail and...

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