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Op-Ed Contributor - Russia Never Wanted a War - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:30 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Indeed, Russia has long been told to simply accept the facts. Here's the independence of Kosovo for you. Here's the abrogation of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, and the American decision to place missile defenses in neighboring countries.

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Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Fri Aug 8, 2008 3:24 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. ADVERTISEMENT

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Georgia 'under attack' as Russian tanks roll in - CNN.com

Seeded on Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:28 AM EDT (CNN)

TBLISI, Georgia (CNN) -- Georgia's president said Friday that his country is under attack by Russian tanks and warplanes, and he accused Russia of targeting civilians as tensions over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia appeared to boil over into full-blown conflict.  …

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Georgian army moves to retake South Ossetia - Energy Power Corridor begets War in Ssouther Osstia!!

Seeded on Fri Aug 8, 2008 10:03 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

War breaks out once again in the province of Southern Ossetia, a US and NATO backed country who wants independence and is in the perfecy place for oil distribution.

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Human remote control may spell end for teachers - CNN.com

Seeded on Thu Aug 7, 2008 5:42 PM EDT (CNN)

I've been saying exactly this for years as the classroom model has been a failure. The teaching robots, or, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer systems that provide personalized instruction and feedback to students without human intervention. Forest

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Strong quake shakes Southern California - Hey man who here lives in L.A.

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:27 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. No immediate damage was reported. ADVERTISEMENT The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas.

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Whitaker named NBC News' Washington bureau chief -

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:41 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

As bureau chief, Whitaker will be in charge of "Meet the Press," as well as NBC News' election and political coverage. He also will make occasional appearances as an on-air analyst, the network said in its announcement Monday.

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McCain backs ban on affirmative action in Arizona - Alas...There are no depths

Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:42 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Apparently there are no depths that a politician won't sink below to get elected president. This is just another example of why politicians can't be themselves when running for office.

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Aptera....300mpg!!!...Under $30,000.....available in 2008 in Calfornia....Goddamn that's a car!

Seeded on Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:04 PM EDT (aptera.com)

This may be against the rules, but you have to admit this would take a hell of a bite out of gas prices!! Forest

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Clinton vows to fight insulting abortion plan | Politics | Reuters

Seeded on Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:16 PM EDT (Reuters)

Will this never end? I find it appalling that Bush would even consider this type of repressive law against women and against any type of logic whatsoever.

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Dana Milbank - When Anonymity Fails, Be Nasty, Brutish and Short - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:25 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

There he sat, hunched and scowling, at the witness table in front of the House Judiciary Committee: the bearded, burly form of the chief of staff and alter ego to the vice president -- Cheney's Cheney, if you will -- and the man most responsible for building President Bush's noti …

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Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights - NYTimes.com...Sweet...I'm putting my order in for an F-16 tomorrow!!!

Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:50 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home." In so declaring, the majority found that a gun-control law in the nation …

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Bush's bankrupt vision, by Noam Chomsky/Always a pleasure to Read....

Seeded on Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:28 AM EDT (chomsky.info)

We need not tarry on the thought that the president's choices have anything to do with justice, human rights or the vision of "democracy promotion" that gripped his soul as soon as the pretexts for the invasion of Iraq had collapsed.

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Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas:

Seeded on Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:47 PM EDT (AMERICAblog)

If this doesn't disqualify you I just don't know what does.

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McCain mired amidst failure to present a Consistency Model

Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:05 PM EDT

Last week, an article was seeded with the intention of warping Obama's campaign via deemed inconsistencies in his political model.

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New York property tax cut may be history: Bloomberg - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:50 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

How typical of Wall Street to make sure they get a tax break, like they need it.

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The 3 Physicists in Congress Calculate Their Influence - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:31 AM EDT (The New York Times)

"Go back 15 years, and there weren't any physicists," said Vernon J. Ehlers, a Republican who taught the subject at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., until he was elected to Congress in 1993.

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Maliki says Iraq will not be used 'to harm' Iran: report - Shot to the Head for Bush policies...

Seeded on Sun Jun 8, 2008 3:31 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

EHRAN (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday assured Iran that Iraq would not allow its territory to be used as a platform to "harm" the Islamic republic, the official IRNA news agency reported. ADVERTISEMENT

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Op-Ed Columnist - David Brooks - The Art of Growing Up via Abraham Lincoln - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri Jun 6, 2008 9:42 AM EDT (The New York Times)

A thoughtful and well articulated article, as per usual by David Brooks a current favorite of mine no matter his general leanings toward the GOP.

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Lieberman Savoring Life On Both Sides of the Aisle - Democrats Need to Clean House

Seeded on Fri Jun 6, 2008 9:35 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

All this activity has tied Democrats into knots. The party has a tenuous 51 to 49 advantage in the Senate, and cannot afford to see him caucus with Republicans because, in a 50-50 Senate, Vice President Cheney could cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of the GOP.

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Best used fuel-efficient cars - Top Ten...and not one American Car Manufacturer on the List...Figures

Seeded on Fri Jun 6, 2008 9:16 AM EDT (CNN)

Consumer Reports recently announced its annual used cars ratings, and we weren't surprised to see one of the major categories was "Best in Fuel Economy."

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Why Obama/Clinton Ticket is no "Nightmare"

Fri May 23, 2008 11:28 PM EDT

Let me preface this little article by saying that Hillary is not my favorite person, she's overbearing, thinks she's smarter than she is, she pontificates with little to say that strikes me as inspired.

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Russian-Chinese message to US/Not enough to Bully the World Now we want to have the Security of Nucking Them.

Seeded on Fri May 23, 2008 6:32 PM EDT (BBC News)

The joint statement from Russia and China criticising US plans for anti-missile defences is a very public condemnation of a scheme which both countries have long opposed.

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Conspiracy Theory/Big Oil better Watch Out/Payback's a Bitch

Seeded on Thu May 22, 2008 3:44 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

Climate-change litigation is heating up. Will the legal strategy that brought down Big Tobacco work against Big Oil? Same attorney's that brought down the tobacco companies are gunning for Big Oil corporations as perveyor's of Global Warming. Forest

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The Sky Is Falling/What the World Should be Doing instead of War

Seeded on Thu May 22, 2008 2:40 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn't NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe? This is a long read folks, but well worth the enlightenment. Forest

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