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Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [363 total comments]
Atheism isn't an attack on diversity, it's a defense of reality.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 23, 2009. [269 total comments]
The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.
David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. November 25, 2009. [175 total comments]
According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. November 23, 2009. [140 total comments]
Sarah Palin constantly complains about the imaginary injustices done to her person. And our country loves whiners.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [123 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.
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 25, 2009. [122 total comments]
This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [122 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.
Mark Ames, AlterNet. November 23, 2009. [112 total comments]
That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 24, 2009. [105 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?
George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [94 total comments]
Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [91 total comments]
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [82 total comments]
Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives to enact corrupt legislation and compromise for the votes of Republicans.
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.
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.
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. November 24, 2009. [61 total comments]
An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.
Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha. November 26, 2009. [59 total comments]
Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.
Anis Shivani, In These Times. November 23, 2009. [56 total comments]
Many people are not getting by. The human species faces dire ecological threats. Pretending everything will be OK helped get us into this mess, and it won't get us out.
Cord Jefferson, Nerve.com. November 28, 2009. [55 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.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 27, 2009. [54 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?
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [53 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.
Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [51 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, AlterNet: Politics. November 23, 2009. [44 total comments]
Is God cool with us picking and choosing Her teachings?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. November 27, 2009. [42 total comments]
Scary stuff.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [41 total comments]
Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 23, 2009. [40 total comments]
Black women get breast cancer at younger ages, but the new breast-cancer guidelines entirely ignore that fact. This is the very definition of institutionalized racism.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 28, 2009. [39 total comments]
Feeling poetic?
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times. November 28, 2009. [37 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.
Byard Duncan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 23, 2009. [36 total comments]
Last week, Palin visited a Manhattan eatery that is a destination for celebrities, former presidents, and the "elite" she so proudly condemns.
Carey Purcell, AlterNet. November 22, 2009. [35 total comments]
Imagine a choice between no intercourse or sex with unbearable pain. Then imagine that no doctor knows how to fix it. That's the world occupied by women with vulvodynia.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 23, 2009. [35 total comments]
Christian side hugs for everyone!
Dean Baker, CounterPunch. November 25, 2009. [33 total comments]
The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.
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.
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: 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.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 24, 2009. [28 total comments]
A popular coastal reclamation program is being threatened by short-sighted scumbags.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. November 26, 2009. [28 total comments]
Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, called the decision to keep the Bush-era policy "an appalling decision."
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 26, 2009. [26 total comments]
The welfare of the children "was not even a factor to be considered" as complaints came in against clerics.
Think ProgressAlterNet: Health and WellnessNovember 23, 2009. [26 total comments]
Gun Owners of America is sending action alerts warning that the Senate health care bill could "jeopardize their ability to obtain a firearms license."
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. November 26, 2009. [25 total comments]
All too often, prosecutors aid and abet the crimes of their informants. And that's just one disheartening outcome of American law enforcement's bungled dealings with snitches.
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