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The Essential Newt Gingrich -- Petty Tyrant, Thug

Paul Abrams | Posted 02.07.2012

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No one has been more of a divider and promoted the ugliness of politics more than Gingrich -- and he now accuses supporters of the 99% movement to be "un-American" and divisive.

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Shooting an Elephant

Jeff Danziger | Posted 09.28.2011

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In a police state, citizens live in fear of the police monitoring them. But what do you call it when the police themselves know that at any time or place while they are performing their duties, the citizens could be monitoring them?

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Comcatastrophe; or, Who's the Best Republican President Since Clinton?

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Still got freedom -- to watch what Big Brother shows us and run on his wheel....

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Soros Warns U.S. Could Be on Verge Dictatorial Democracy, Slams Fox News, Glenn Beck

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an extemporaneous conversation with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Soros mentioned George Orwell's novel, 1984, as a possible precedent for the kind of fantasies being promulgated in our culture today.

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Making Afghanistan's Fraudulent Regime Seem 'Barely' Credible

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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The anticorruption campaign against Karzai's administration has become even more complicated because crooked elements within his inner circle are being paid off by the CIA, according to Afghan and American officials.

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'1984' First Edition Found In Charity Bin

Telegraph | Bonnie Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Hol, a volunteer for the charity Lifeline, found the book when he was sorting through the pile of donations. "It's in a remarkably good condition...

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Inflation May Be Under Control, But Watch Out for Conflation

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a 22 year-old cub reporter for a music magazine, I freaked when my boss assigned me to interview "'The Strawberries,' a very important group," whic...

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What Do Hobbits, Robots, and Yahoos Have In Common?

Mark Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurg...

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Like Stieg Larsson? Let's Date! Can Books REALLY Lead To Love?

AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Chin Ma is 25 and looking for love. He paddles regularly in the dating pools online, paying fees to navigate millions of profiles bas...

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Elton John Working On Musical Of Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

The Guardian | Sean Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sir Elton John is reportedly working on a stage adaptation of Animal Farm, teaming up with the writer of Billy Elliot, for a musical version of Georg...

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10 Best Books That Are Years (PHOTOS, POLL)

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, American Revolution, 1492, Best Books, Space Odyssey, 1776, Slidepoll, Bill Reynolds, Bob Dylan, Mayan, 2012, Bestsellers, 2010, 2001, Orwell, 10 Best Years, Shakespeare, Pinchbeck, Mccullough, Books News

Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?

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Fox News is Not Just Biased -- It's a Cult

Bryant Welch | Posted 05.25.2011

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For cults, and Fox News, their objective is total control of the victim's mind so that the viewer becomes the easily manipulated pawn of the cult. Right, Glenn Beck? Bill O'Reilly?

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My Kindle Ate My Homework

Marc Hershon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.

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John McCain's Big Lies

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The distortions coming from the campaign make it impossible to determine who John McCain is beyond the noise, the distractions

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Thinking Critically About Scientology, Psychiatry, and Their Feud

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Scientology and establishment psychiatry have something else in common. They are both orthodoxies that deal harshly with their ex-insiders who have come to reject them.

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The Democrats in Denver: Surprises and Shadows

Roderick Spencer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before it all goes blurry and fictional in the retelling, allow me to recapitulate my personal list of astonishments from Denver.

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