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An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | MagazineThis isn’t a religious dispute, like the debate over creationism and intelligent design. It’s a challenge to traditional science that crosses party, class, and religious lines. It is partly a reaction to Big Pharma’s blunders and PR missteps, from Vioxx to illegal marketing ploys, which have ...
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Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise | Politics | AlterNetMax Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues the right is incapable of anything but scorched-earth politics, and are trying to delegitimize the Obama presidency - R.J. Rushdoony was a survivor of the Armenian genocide, who came to this country and became a theologian. He's the ...
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People Power Pushed the New Deal - Roosevelt didn’t come up with progressive programs on his own.This is just one example of how strong grassroots organizing during the last severe U.S. economic crisis was key in pushing some of that era’s most important progressive reforms. Social Security is another such case. Like President Barack Obama, Roosevelt was an extremely popular leader, ...
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Commentary: World's biggest fish are dying - CNN.comTed Danson is an Emmy Award-winning actor, a founding board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, and narrator of a new film, "End of the Line." My friend Charles Clover, then a reporter for the U.K.'s Telegraph, wrote an ...
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Click to Give @ The Animal Rescue SiteThe Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted. ...
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Americans' medical files go digital, by way of Asia - Los Angeles TimesAmericans' medical files go digital, by way of Asia Reporting from Manila -- It started out as just another Thanksgiving Day stomachache, a nagging pain that sharpened until it reverberated from California halfway around the world. When the ache in her lower right abdomen became ...
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Californians voice concerns to Obama administration over offshore drilling - Los Angeles TimesCalifornians voice concerns to Obama administration over offshore drilling Reporting from San Francisco -- For all his green talk en route to the White House, President Barack Obama remains a cipher on one of the most critical environmental and economic issues facing California: whether to ...
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Intelligence chief adds safeguards after wrongful intercepts - CNN.comWASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday that they have added safeguards to prevent the government from unlawfully spying on U.S. citizens after a routine check of the system "detected issues that raised concerns." Intelligence officials declined to specify the nature of ...
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Head of Senate Panel Seeks Hearing on Wiretaps - NYTimes.comHead of Senate Panel Seeks Hearing on Wiretaps WASHINGTON — The head of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday that she would hold a hearing to examine the National Security Agency ’s interception of domestic communications after new reports that recent wiretapping went beyond what ...
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A New Way ForwardIf you don't see a protest listed in your area, you can get it started by following these steps and registering your city. Once you get it going, others can step in.
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