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Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?

Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?

Greta Christina, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [490 total comments]
In the marketplace of ideas, only religion gets a free ride in an armored tank.

Do Atheists Have God All Wrong?

Do Atheists Have God All Wrong?

Troy Jollimore, Truthdig. December 6, 2009. [181 total comments]
A new book, "The Case for God," argues that prominent non-believers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are wrong. Is it based on wishful thinking?

Ehrenreich: The Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult

Ehrenreich: The Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult

Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com. December 2, 2009. [177 total comments]
What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 2, 2009. [157 total comments]
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women

The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [142 total comments]
Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers.

Why Is Tiger Woods in Trouble? It's Not His Steamy Sex Life; It's His Family Values Hypocrisy

Why Is Tiger Woods in Trouble? It's Not His Steamy Sex Life; It's His Family Values Hypocrisy

Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [134 total comments]
What's the biggest P.R. sin? It's not infidelity, or kinky sex, or making sex tapes. It's profiting from a holier-than-though public image based on lies.

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

Brad Reed, AlterNet. December 6, 2009. [133 total comments]
Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding food of nutrients. That dream is closer to reality than ever.

Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests

Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests

Jodie Evans, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [132 total comments]
The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country.

Obama's War Speech Offered Something for Everybody -- But Who's Buying It?

Obama's War Speech Offered Something for Everybody -- But Who's Buying It?

Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. December 2, 2009. [130 total comments]
Obama's promise: Let's come together and get along to end the war - by waging the war more intensely…but only for eighteen months, and then we all get to go home.

Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster

Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster

Bill McKibben, Tomdispatch.com. December 7, 2009. [120 total comments]
Treating climate change as just another political problem may mean the end of civilization.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan

Kiera Butler, Mother Jones. December 5, 2009. [118 total comments]
Foer's new book, Eating Animals, uncovers some ugly truths about America's meat production system, but he also weaves in stories from his own family history.

America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think

America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think

Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [98 total comments]
America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.

Progressive Leaders Pan Obama's Decision for More War in Afghanistan -- 10 Reactions

Progressive Leaders Pan Obama's Decision for More War in Afghanistan -- 10 Reactions

AlterNetDecember 4, 2009. [96 total comments]
Tom Hayden says he's taking the Obama bumpersticker off his car, Laura Flanders says the Bush Doctrine is still alive, and more.

Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death for

Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death for "Walking Toward Them'

Steven D., Booman TribuneAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 5, 2009. [91 total comments]
Thank God for safe, humane, non-lethal technology.

Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms

Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [77 total comments]
Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book offers a much-needed addition to the debate about whether we should be eating meat.

What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Needed an Abortion at Dr. Tiller's Clinic

What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Needed an Abortion at Dr. Tiller's Clinic

Amanda Mueller, TruthOut.org. December 6, 2009. [55 total comments]
The Andersons were devastated to learn their unborn child wouldn't live. Dr. Tiller showed them the compassion they so badly wished they had from their friends.

10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending

10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending

Tony Newman, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [54 total comments]
2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of America's longest running war. Here's 10 reasons why.

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 2, 2009. [51 total comments]
More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?

Hightower: What Is Obama Getting Us into in Afghanistan?

Hightower: What Is Obama Getting Us into in Afghanistan?

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. December 2, 2009. [51 total comments]
Cut the music, and let's all ponder what Barack Obama, Roberts Gates, Stanley McChrystal and Co. are getting us into ... and whether we really want to go there.

"Tea Party: The Documentary" -- Attending a Bizarre Movie Premiere for Right-Wingers in Washington

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [51 total comments]
Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.

A Friend of Mine Once Knew a Guy Who Was a Welfare Queen

A Friend of Mine Once Knew a Guy Who Was a Welfare Queen

Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 3, 2009. [49 total comments]
True story.

Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy

Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy

Sena Christian, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [46 total comments]
Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.

So, How Much Do You Have to Pay Someone to Kill Off a Basketful of Cute Little Puppies?

So, How Much Do You Have to Pay Someone to Kill Off a Basketful of Cute Little Puppies?

Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 4, 2009. [42 total comments]
Consider a rescue shelter for all your pet needs.

UPDATED: Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism Fantasy; Right-Wingers Act Like it's 9/11 All Over Again

UPDATED: Defense Contractor Makes Up Wild Islamic Terrorism Fantasy; Right-Wingers Act Like it's 9/11 All Over Again

Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 6, 2009. [41 total comments]
Weird story.

We're Doing a Heckuva Job Helping Those Devastated by the Economic Meltdown

We're Doing a Heckuva Job Helping Those Devastated by the Economic Meltdown

Karen Dolan, Diana Pearce, AlterNet. December 7, 2009. [41 total comments]
Like the levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the safety net is failing Americans battered by the 'Great Recession' of 2008-2009.

Fed Up With Federalism

Fed Up With Federalism

Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect. December 3, 2009. [40 total comments]
How America's commitment to states' rights is undermining our economic recovery.

What's Cap and Trade? A New Video Breaks it Down and Reveals the Plan as a Scam

What's Cap and Trade? A New Video Breaks it Down and Reveals the Plan as a Scam

Janet Redman, MinuteMan Media. December 3, 2009. [35 total comments]
It's a scheme that tries to sell business-as-usual as a solution to global warming. Here's how it works.

Erik Prince Quitting Blackwater to Teach High School History and Economics

Erik Prince Quitting Blackwater to Teach High School History and Economics

Alex Seitz-Wald, Think ProgressAlterNet: World. December 2, 2009. [34 total comments]
"I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too."

Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game

Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. December 3, 2009. [34 total comments]
Imperial occupations have become geometrically more difficult since the Second World War.

Copenhagen Climate Talks Set to Begin: What's Likely to Happen and What's at Stake

Copenhagen Climate Talks Set to Begin: What's Likely to Happen and What's at Stake

Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360. December 5, 2009. [33 total comments]
The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.

Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program

Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program

Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. December 2, 2009. [33 total comments]
At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government.

Purple Hearts On Death Row: War Damaged Vets Should Not Be Executed By the State

Purple Hearts On Death Row: War Damaged Vets Should Not Be Executed By the State

Karl R. Keys, Bill Pelke, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [30 total comments]
Soldiers are coming home traumatized by the carnage they've seen. As veterans, we believe those who commit crimes due to severe mental problems should be treated, not killed.

Are Liberals Pathetic?

Are Liberals Pathetic?

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. December 7, 2009. [28 total comments]
Sterile posturing and cowardice have hollowed out the liberal cause.

Bernie Sanders Puts Official Senate Hold on Bernanke Nomination

Bernie Sanders Puts Official Senate Hold on Bernanke Nomination

David Sirota, Open LeftAlterNet: Politics. December 2, 2009. [25 total comments]
It's about time progressive Senators start using the power of obstruction for progressive ends.

Get Off John McCain's Lawn!

Get Off John McCain's Lawn!

Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Politics. December 7, 2009. [24 total comments]
The Senator from Arizona seems grumpy these days.

Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown

Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown

Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com. December 2, 2009. [24 total comments]
The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates.

This Week in Right-Wing Media Crazy

This Week in Right-Wing Media Crazy

Staff, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: Video. December 4, 2009. [24 total comments]
A round-up!

NY Senate Votes Down Same-Sex Marriage, Anti-Gay Group Declares Victory For God (And Asks For Money)

NY Senate Votes Down Same-Sex Marriage, Anti-Gay Group Declares Victory For God (And Asks For Money)

Liliana Segura, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 2, 2009. [22 total comments]
The National Organization for Marriage wasted no time in turning its big homophobic win into a fundraising appeal.

The Placebo Effect: Studies Reveal How Fake Medicine Actually Reduces Pain

The Placebo Effect: Studies Reveal How Fake Medicine Actually Reduces Pain

Michael Haederle, Miller-McCune.com. December 3, 2009. [22 total comments]
New medical research is finding that the pain relief induced by placebos may come from releasing the body's own chemical pain relievers.

Unfriendly Fire: Michael Tomasky Attacks Michael Moore on Afghanistan

Unfriendly Fire: Michael Tomasky Attacks Michael Moore on Afghanistan

Lindsay Beyerstein, MajikthiseAlterNet: World. December 5, 2009. [21 total comments]
I am so sick of hearing this straw man argument from liberals.

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