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Jeff Danziger

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Flu Shots CEO

Jeff Danziger | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


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Kathleen Reardon

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Are We Really Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Have To Fight Them Here?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


The tragedy at Fort Hood last week raises the question of whether we are indeed fighting in Afghanistan in order to protect ourselves from having to do so on our own soil. Here was a man trusted by the military in the middle of what had been one...

Joseph Kanon

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Making an Author Video

Joseph Kanon | Posted November 9, 2009 | Books


In the old days -- about five years ago -- it was still the case that writers were occasionally read but almost never seen. Celebrity authors popped up on television from time to time, and faithful fans turned out at bookstore readings, but most sightings were confined to author photos...

Ryan Mack

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Ryan Mack's Confession: I LOVE Eating TOO Much!

Ryan Mack | Posted November 9, 2009 | Living


I am great when it comes to numbers. I can break down a financial principle with the best of them and can speak on economic empowerment ALL DAY without taking a break because I love it so much. I know that it is protocol in the blogger world to only...

Ginna Kelly

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Climate Change Threatens Our National Security

Ginna Kelly | Posted November 9, 2009 | Green


Climate change will be the defining issue of our generation. Not only does it threaten the air we breathe and the water we drink, but it poses a serious threat to America's national security.

On October 6th, 2009, I listened to Senator John Warner speak to the climate change-national...

Jennifer Merolla Ph.D.

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Cracks in Obama's Coalition or Conventional Wisdom?

Jennifer Merolla Ph.D. | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


There have been countless articles this week interpreting the electoral tea leaves. One common interpretation of the results is that there may be some cracks in the coalition that ushered Obama into office. The stories generally then conclude that these cracks may serve as a warning sign for Democrats in...

Ellen Brown

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Goldman's Profits Come From Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

Ellen Brown | Posted November 9, 2009 | Business


"The homeless in America have Goldman Sachs to thank for their homelessness and starvation right now. They took the money from their pockets, they put it in their bonuses for this year. . . . That's a financial terrorist crime."


-- Former stock trader Max Keiser in...

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted November 9, 2009 | Entertainment


When Sarah and I decided to make a film about our father, we did a Freedom of Information Act request for his FBI file. Six months passed. One morning, without fanfare, a large plain file box arrived filled with thousands of partially blacked-out pages. The first entry was a letter...

Joseph Satto

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Face-To-Face Communication: Just Say 'No' to Your Mobile Device

Joseph Satto | Posted November 9, 2009 | Living


While browsing www.mysomeday.com, I came across a woman who planned to document a holocaust survivor's story and then did so. We featured this completed Someday on the site and interviewed her about the process.

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During that interview, she said that the...

Michael D. Brown

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USOC Belongs in Colorado, Not Mississippi

Michael D. Brown | Posted November 9, 2009 | Denver


Flying under the statewide news radar over the past several months (unless you live in Colorado Springs and regularly read the Colorado Springs Gazette) has been the surprising story of the United States Olympic Committee and the City of Colorado Springs arguing about money, facilities and threats to leave the...

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

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Pet Abandonment Up, Adoption Down

Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted November 9, 2009 | Living


The current recession has touched so many different parts of our lives over the past 18 months. We've measured unemployment, counted the dollars of multiple bailout packages, and watched the housing market fall. But one aspect that's been overlooked is how the recession has affected household pets.

Pets are being...

Buzz Aldrin

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Why We Need Better Rockets

Buzz Aldrin | Posted November 9, 2009 | Technology


Well, it looked spectacular.

I'm referring to NASA's recent launch of the Ares 1-X, billed as the prototype of the Ares 1 as a crew launch vehicle, a fancy term for a manned space booster. The rocket is said to have performed as planned, and ushered in the era...

John Zogby

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The Big Confusion: "Moderates" and "Independents" Are Not the Same Thing

John Zogby | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


Co-authored by Zeljka Buturovic, PhD

We hear it all the time, "how did he do among independents?"or "she lost among moderates, the independent voters." In a recent New York Times piece, columnist David Brooks divided the electorate into liberals, conservatives, and independents.

This view mistakes a lack of party...

Wayne Pacelle

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Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted November 9, 2009 | Books


Jonathan Safran Foer has burst from his comfortable cocoon in the world of fiction writing and thrown four feet into the tussle over the food we eat in America through his first work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. In just the past couple weeks, he's had major pieces in the

Louis Klarevas

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Beyond a Lingering Doubt: It's Time for a New Standard on Capital Punishment

Louis Klarevas | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


Barring an eleventh hour intervention by the governor of Virginia, the D.C. sniper John Muhammad will be put to death tomorrow for his role in the shooting spree that claimed 10 lives and terrorized the nation's capital in 2002.

Tomorrow's execution sets the stage for the story I want to...

Ben Berkon

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iPhone Application Enables Parents to Keep Track of Who's Sleeping With Their Slutty Daughter

Ben Berkon | Posted November 9, 2009 | Comedy


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In technology news, the worlds of overbearing parents and their slutty offspring have finally collided with the release of the iSlut. The iSlut is an easy-to-use iPhone application that enables parents to keep track of who's sleeping with their slutty daughter.

"It completely...

Dean Baker

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The Job Loss from Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Job Loss from Defense Spending

Dean Baker | Posted November 9, 2009 | Business


There is a major national ad campaign, funded by the oil industry and other usual suspects, to convince the public that measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and slow global warming will result in massive job loss. This ad campaign warns of slower growth and the loss of hundreds...

Sen. Fritz Hollings

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Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and into the Trade War

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


I'm frustrated. Everyone is talking about the loss of jobs from the recession and no one pays attention to the loss of jobs from off-shoring. Everyone's attention is directed to the Iraq War and the Afghan War and no one pays attention to the Trade War.

After World War II,...

Heather Robinson

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Maj. Nidal Hasan and the "Desperation Explanation"

Heather Robinson | Posted November 9, 2009 |


I couldn't help but laugh, bitterly, to hear Anderson Cooper on CNN last week puzzling that Major Nidal Hasan's power point presentation "justifying suicide bombing" was not regarded by the military as a "red flag" (Hasan is the Army psychiatrist who went on a killing rampage last week at Fort...

Valerie Tarico

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Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 6 of 6

Valerie Tarico | Posted November 9, 2009 | Living


"I had no need of that hypothesis."

Over the course of the summer I wrote a series of articles about brain science and Christianity, and I promised a final installment that never came.  This is it. The series asked and--within the limits of present knowledge--answered a set of questions that...

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