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Glynn Wilson, Locust Forks News-Journal. November 14, 2009. [180 total comments]
You don't appear to know what "freedom" means.
Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [159 total comments]
Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
AlterNetNovember 19, 2009. [158 total comments]
Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."
Max Blumenthal, Tomdispatch.com. November 16, 2009. [147 total comments]
Palin's influence on a party largely devoid of leadership is expanding. If she doesn't become the GOP's future queen, she may be its future king-maker -- and its destroyer.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 18, 2009. [145 total comments]
Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 17, 2009. [144 total comments]
Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?
Richard Kim , Betsy Reed, The Nation. November 14, 2009. [116 total comments]
Some may secretly relish the embarrassing spectacle that is Sarah Palin. But she's dangerous; the more we chuckle, the more indignant her army becomes.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009. [106 total comments]
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. [104 total comments]
First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they're threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage.
Courtney E. Martin, The American Prospect. November 14, 2009. [93 total comments]
Many young men reject the trappings of traditional, sexist masculinity. But what's the alternative?
Nomi Prins, AlterNet. November 14, 2009. [87 total comments]
It's been 10 years since Washington repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, the moment we got royally screwed by the banking system -- and we're still paying the price.
Eleanor Bader, RH Reality CheckAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 16, 2009. [86 total comments]
"Life is not a playground," says Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas in The Kingdom Leadership Institute Manual. "It is a war zone."
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. November 16, 2009. [84 total comments]
We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [80 total comments]
It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. November 14, 2009. [78 total comments]
As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the "victor" in the bloody venture?
Willam Fisher, IPS News. November 16, 2009. [77 total comments]
At the same time, the Justice Department is being strongly criticized for keeping the military commissions in place to try some suspects.
Johann Hari, Independent UK. November 17, 2009. [75 total comments]
Former radical Islamists share their tales of why they turned to extremism, and why they repented.
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. November 17, 2009. [72 total comments]
Fancy new book readers save lots of trees, yes, but I'll pass.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. [67 total comments]
Far enough to completely contradict themselves, apparently.
Bob Herbert, The New York Times. November 16, 2009. [67 total comments]
The young, the black and the poor are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 14, 2009. [65 total comments]
Many have fallen sway to demographically data about cultural or religious birth rates -- here's why it's a fool's game.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. [64 total comments]
The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. November 20, 2009. [64 total comments]
Historically, the burden of family planning has almost always fallen on women. Isn't it about time for that to change?
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress. November 20, 2009. [63 total comments]
A new slogan is making its way onto t-shirts and even teddy bears: 'Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8,' which reads, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [62 total comments]
Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.
Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Online. November 18, 2009. [58 total comments]
To liberals, she epitomizes the anti-choice far right of the GOP. But to American Right to Life, Sarah Palin is not pure enough.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. [57 total comments]
The NY Times has just discovered that "douche" is used as an insult in mainstream media. Why do they seem to see the spread of a term derogatory to women as progress?
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. November 14, 2009. [54 total comments]
In the wake of the passage by Democrats of a radical anti-abortion measure, Democratic women are asking, "Whose party is this?"
Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. November 18, 2009. [48 total comments]
The House health-care bill isn't just a threat to women's rights; with the Stupak amendment, it's a breach of the Constitution.
Matt Corley, Think ProgressAlterNet: Media and Technology. November 15, 2009. [48 total comments]
Wingnut Gary Bauer doesn't disagree.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 16, 2009. [48 total comments]
They must not love America very much.
Liliana Segura, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 20, 2009. [47 total comments]
The TX Board of Pardons voted to spare the life of Robert Lee Thompson, who took part in a robbery that led to a murder. The killer is serving life. Perry chose to kill him anyway.
Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat. November 19, 2009. [44 total comments]
Controversial new recommendations on breast cancer prevention have caused a stir in the women's health community. But do yearly mammograms really change death rates?
Alex Seitz-Wald, Think ProgressAlterNet: Media and Technology. November 16, 2009. [43 total comments]
This statement appeared to be too much, even for Glenn Beck, who replied, "Uh, I don't think that's necessary.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 18, 2009. [39 total comments]
An independent study predicts that the Stupak amendment could end insurance coverage of abortions -- for everyone -- in the long-run.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 18, 2009. [37 total comments]
We're eager to hear what you love, and what you might want to change about AlterNet.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 17, 2009. [36 total comments]
Horrifying.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 14, 2009. [34 total comments]
Hundreds gather in Albuquerque to celebrate a new dawn of wider acceptance of drug reform, while still feeling a little nervous about the path ahead.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. November 17, 2009. [33 total comments]
12 year old Benjamin French lives in one of 33 states where insurance companies are allowed to set annual and lifetime caps on prosthetic coverage.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. [33 total comments]
A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
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