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Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [409 total comments]
Atheism isn't an attack on diversity, it's a defense of reality.
David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. November 25, 2009. [185 total comments]
According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [136 total comments]
If the partisan tables were turned, the GOP would waste no time laying the blame on Democrats. We need to do the same to build political capital for key fights ahead.
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 25, 2009. [135 total comments]
This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.
Raj Patel, Picador Press. November 30, 2009. [133 total comments]
The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [132 total comments]
Some progressive opponents of the health care bill say it's so bad, we may as well drop it. That analysis ignores the millions of Americans who stand to get coverage.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [125 total comments]
Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [114 total comments]
Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [109 total comments]
She's an incompetent has-been. Yet she keeps getting our attention. Is it that she embodies a set of contradictions that many women grapple with?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 29, 2009. [100 total comments]
Stunning that someone could be this obtuse.
George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [99 total comments]
Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [99 total comments]
The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [97 total comments]
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha. November 26, 2009. [90 total comments]
Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.
Cord Jefferson, Nerve.com. November 28, 2009. [88 total comments]
Porn is entertainment, not a how-to manual. If men want to know what really turns women on, hetero porn is the last place they should look.
Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [87 total comments]
Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives to enact corrupt legislation and compromise for the votes of Republicans.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [87 total comments]
The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder -- lying about pot is a lucrative business.
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times. November 28, 2009. [72 total comments]
The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradable.
Ben Reininga, Nerve.com. November 25, 2009. [67 total comments]
Thanksgiving is a holiday about three things: eating, drinking, and fun. If you haven't realized that yet, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to do it right.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 27, 2009. [66 total comments]
Michaele and Tareq Salahi weren't invited to the White House dinner. But they got in anyway. Threats to Obama's life are four times those faced by Bush -- so how did this happen?
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. November 24, 2009. [64 total comments]
An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.
Steve Brown, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [63 total comments]
Amazon is charging -- and pocketing -- exorbitant shipping and handling fees, and someone somewhere is getting rich from it.
Stephen Webster, Raw Story. November 30, 2009. [60 total comments]
Uganda is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. And a secretive group of American politicians appears to be a driving force behind the law.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [59 total comments]
Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 28, 2009. [58 total comments]
Feeling poetic?
Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [54 total comments]
Some of the most notorious massacres of the past 15 years have been committed by veterans whose brains have been severely damaged from trauma or exposure to toxic chemicals.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. November 27, 2009. [52 total comments]
Scary stuff.
Agence France PresseNovember 30, 2009. [52 total comments]
Obama has already ordered the new strategy implemented and is informing the leaders of Russia, Britain and France of his plans.
Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [35 total comments]
Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.
Dean Baker, CounterPunch. November 25, 2009. [32 total comments]
The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [30 total comments]
The White House released records cataloguing 575 visits by health care industry heavyweights since Jan. 20. The ties run deep.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 25, 2009. [30 total comments]
There's no mystery here. The debate is over. The stimulus has made a real, positive difference.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Politics. November 24, 2009. [29 total comments]
Joe Lieberman will work with Republicans to kill health care reform, no matter the consequences for the millions who are counting on this bill to pass.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 24, 2009. [29 total comments]
A popular coastal reclamation program is being threatened by short-sighted scumbags.
John Nichols, The Nation. November 25, 2009. [28 total comments]
Rigid conservatives in the RNC want to establish a purity test for the party's candidates. Guess what? Reagan the conservative hero would have failed most of the criteria.
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 26, 2009. [28 total comments]
The welfare of the children "was not even a factor to be considered" as complaints came in against clerics.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. November 26, 2009. [27 total comments]
Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, called the decision to keep the Bush-era policy "an appalling decision."
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation. November 30, 2009. [26 total comments]
With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere.
Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. November 28, 2009. [26 total comments]
If you like what Rupert Murdoch has done for the national discourse, you'll love what Philip Anschutz is trying to do in your hometown.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 25, 2009. [25 total comments]
Seriously.
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