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The White House's Opening Mideast Peace Statement Is Actually Pretty Encouraging

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This post originally appeared on Booman Tribune. I always allow myself to get hopeful when peace talks break out on the Middle East, and my hopes are always dashed. But, there were some very fine statements made tonight at the opening dinner. They ...

Discovery Channel Gunman Appears to Have Had Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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The mysterious, self described eco-activist who heald at least one person hostage yesterday at the Discovery Channel's headquarters had some strange demands. Via Think Progress: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration ...

The Dems Need to Speak to Progressive Values, or Else Lose Badly Come November

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Only moral leadership backed by actions effective communication can excite the Obama base once more. Without it, the Democrats will lose big.

On Mosque Madness, The Onion's Satire Is Indistinguishable from Reality

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You've probably caught this video of Glenn Beckapalooza attendees showing their utter cluelessness on a range of current affairs , it's gone viral in the past few days.About halfway through, the subject of the not-a-mosque-which-isn't-at-Ground-Zero ...

Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico

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An oil rig owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 80 miles South of Vermilion Bay. A Coast guard officer said all 13 people on the rig were accounted for, with one sustaining injuries, according to the New Orleans ...

72 Migrants Massacred in Northern Mexico

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The scale of last week's event was unprecedented, however, its sad and horrific details are not uncommon.

Federal Prosecutors Hiding Evidence in War on Gangs

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The revelations threaten to undermine the state’s case while raising serious questions about the legality of the US government’s global war on gangs.

Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, Gets His Ass Kicked Instead

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The details of this one are kind of sketchy, but TPM describes the story as one of a series of cases where “people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime … were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even ...

GOP Communist? Republican Wishes US Had Centrally Planned Economy Like China

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This post first appeared on Open Left. I never thought we'd see a Republican Communist - and certainly not one who is the nominee for U.S. Senate in a major swing-state. But as the Wisconsin State Journal shows, in these strange time, even that ...

Less Work, More Life

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We need to come up with a different approach to work.
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