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Dear Rick Perry, If You Don't Like This Country, Leave

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secession, Georgia, Oklahoma, Teabagging, South Dakota, Tea Party, Rick Perry, Politics News

You know what? Leave! Reactionary, white supremacists have been yelling this line to minorities forever: "If you don't like this country, leave." Time to flip the script.

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Interview with Lead Singer of The Woggles, Playing Live in Washington DC Tonight

Alex Remington | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rock Music, Georgia, The Woggles, Athens GA, Rock and Roll, Interview, Entertainment News

The Woggles are one of Athens, Georgia's great rock bands, and they're one of the most fun bands you'll ever see.

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Georgia Continues To Lose Stability

GlobalPost | David L. Stern | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Georgia Unrest, Tblisi, Foreign Affairs, Georgia Protests, Saakashvili, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikhail Saakashvili, Advocacy, Tbilisi-Georgia, World News

TBILISI, Georgia -- For the thousands who have gathered in front of parliament in the center of this Caucasus capital, Mikheil Saakashvili is a lead...

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Russia/Georgia: Cluster Bombs' Harm Shows Need to Join Ban

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Cluster Bombs, Russia Georgia War, Georgia Russia, Russia George South Ossetia, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Human Rights Watch, South Ossetia, Georgia, South Ossetia Fighting, Cluster Bomb Ban, Georgia South Ossetia War, Geneva, China, World News

(Geneva) -- The loss of lives and livelihoods from cluster munitions used by Russia and Georgia during the August 2008 armed conflict reinforces the i...

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Georgia Protests: The Reading List

ReadRussia | ReadRussia | Posted 05.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Tbilisi-Georgia, Georgia, Russia, Home News

Protest rallies continue in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, over President Mikheil Saakashvili's ouster. RUSSIA! contributor Julia Ioffe compiled a...

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Masters Golf: Has Tiger Woods Picked His Successor?

Matthew DeBord | Posted 05.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Masters, Anthony Kim, Augusta National, Nike, Tiger Woods, Georgia, Augusta, Golf Channel, Entertainment News

Woods, being preposterously talented, knows equivalent talent when he sees it. Anyone can see that Anthony Kim is pretty good. But Tiger sees something more.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hugo Chavez, Turkey, Algeria, Pakistan, Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Baitullah Mehsud, Moldova, Somalia, Azerbaijan, Israel, North Korea, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Turning East - Turning West: Brewing Revolutions and Breakaway Provinces Facts: Up to 100,000 protesters h...

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Georgians Threaten Saakashvili With Mass Civil Disobedience

Reuters | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Georgian Protesters, Georgia Civil Disobedience, Foreign Affairs, Georgia Protests, Saakashvili, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Saakashvili Called to Resign, Mikhail Saakashvili, Advocacy, World News

Demonstrators in Georgia called for widespread civil disobedience on Friday after President Mikheil Saakashvili defied mass street protests and reject...

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Georgian Protestors March On Tblisii, Demand Saakashvili Step Down

Times Online | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Tblisii, Foreign Affairs, Saakashvili, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikhail Saakashvili, Advocacy, World News

Tens of thousands of protesters thronged the Georgian capital Tbilisi today for the start of mass demonstrations to oust Mikheil Saskashvili, the coun...

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Huff Post Exclusive! 2010 Porsche Panamera sedans take on Southern California freeways

Steve Parker | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Volkswagen, Chrysler Crossfire, Maserati Quattroporte, Atlanta, Shanghai, Cars, Harley-Davidson v-Rod, Paris, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Southern California, Petersen Automotive Museum, Don Panoz, Tokyo, Porsche Panamera, Vasek Polak, Detroit, Aston-Martin Lagonda, San Diego Freeway, American Lemans Series, All-Wheel Drive, Coachella Valley, Hermosa Beach, Milwaukee, Santa Monica Freeway, Palm Springs, Cayenne, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Stuttgart, Indian Wells, Porsche 959, Georgia, Iphone, Stutz Bearcat, Carrera, Bruce Springsteen, Business News

Just over a month ago, Porsche released the production facts and figures and pricing for their new Panamera four-door sedan. And today, we nearly ran ...

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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Black Georgia Lawmakers Storm Out In Obama Resolution Fight

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Georgia House Resolution, Obama Georgia, Georgia, Georgia Obama Resolution, Georgia Black Caucus, Politics News

ATLANTA — Two dozen black lawmakers angrily stalked out of the Georgia House on Friday amid claims a decision by white Republican leaders to del...

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Georgia's Anti-Putin Disco Disqualified From Eurovision Contest

CBC | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Eurovision Song Contest, Putin Georgia, South Ossetia, Vladimir Putin, Georgia, Putin, Mikhail Saakashvili, Russia, World News

Georgia's entry in the Eurovision song contest, a not-too-sly jab at Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been booted out of the competition bec...

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What Next in Russia?

Peter Schechter | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladmir Putin, Nato, Russia-America-Talks, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Russian Oligarchs, Vice President Joe Biden, Putin, Foreign Policy, Latvia, Daniel Silva, World News

The United States needs to demand clear results from Moscow: meaningful cooperation on the Iranian nuclear issue, anti-terrorism, non-proliferation and the spread of nuclear materials.

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How Toilet Flushing Can Create Zero Waste Poop

Ari Herzog | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Bronx Zoo, California, Poop, Charleston, South Carolina, Clarington, Toilets, Gray-Water-Recycling, Atlanta, Georgia, Massachusetts, Irvine, North Carolina, Zero-Waste, Green News

The next time you need to do a number two, be sure to stop by the Bronx Zoo, sit on their eco loo, and watch your human poo slide down the toilet OOOH -- without water!

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Nobody Gets Arrested for Assisted Suicide in Oregon

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity, Suicide Group, Assisted Suicide Group, Georgia, Final Exit Network, Living News

Thankfully, none of us in Oregon have to face either arrest nor a terribly painful lingering death if we don't want to. The voters twice agreed to our Death with Dignity law.

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Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Comedy

Following in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, many states are now advocating an end to what many boozers and businessmen alike deem antiquated puritanical pap. The Christian Right is not amused.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Energy is Still a Piece of the Economic Puzzle

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Foreign Oil, Natural Gas, Economy, Energy, Russia, Energy Independence, Dependence on Foreign Oil, Georgia, Russian Oil, Ukraine, Green News

The rest of the world is wondering why no one in Washington appears to be the least bit concerned about the astonishing risks we continue to run by doing nothing about our dependence on foreign oil.

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America's Islamic Slave Roots

Frankie Martin | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Slavery, President Obama, Martin Luther King, Sapelo Island, Obama Inauguration, Akbar Ahmed, African Americans, Muslim World, Cornelia Walker Bailey, Research, Inauguration, Georgia, Family, World News

My team and I were on Sapelo Island, off the coast of Georgia, to investigate links between the US and Islam going back centuries to the Africans brought to this country as slaves.

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Bush Making Calls To World Leaders

AP | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George W. Bush, George Bush, Bush Foreign Policy, McCain National Security Council, Gordon Johndroe, Laura Bush, Georgia, South Korea, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Politics News

WASHINGTON — With just hours left in his presidency, President George W. Bush on Monday made a round of phone calls to more than a dozen leaders...

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Coal Ash Piling Up Most In Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia And Alabama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Where Are Coal Ash Piles, Coal Ash Piles, Georgia, Ohio, Alabama, Environment, Kentucky, Coal Ash Spill, Pollution, Coal, Indiana, Green News

WASHINGTON — Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a situation the government has long recognized a...

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2007 -- The Year that Time Forgot

Matt Stewart | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Paris Hilton, President, Beijing, War, 9/11, Recession, 2007, Iraq, Obama, Terrorist, Billy Joel, Invasion, Prostitution, Hookers, Aig, Year That Time Forgot, 2008, John Kerry, Elliot Spitzer, 2008 Summer Games, Russia, Katrina, On the Ground 2008, September 11th, Prostitute, Financial Crisis, Mortgage Meltdown, Afghanistan, 2008 Election, Batman, Barack Obama, World Cup, Olympics, United States President, Indiana Jones, Lehman Brothers, Rod Blagojevich, Georgia, Iphone, Bros, Living News

It's only natural that after our most recent 12-month carnival, 2007 would seem relatively blah. Every now and then, history lays an egg. What happened in 1957? 1910? 1887-1897?

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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