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Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [455 total comments]
Atheism isn't an attack on diversity, it's a defense of reality.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [163 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.
John Nichols, The Nation. December 1, 2009. [155 total comments]
Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.
Raj Patel, Picador Press. November 30, 2009. [146 total comments]
The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [146 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.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 1, 2009. [141 total comments]
You still have the opportunity to save thousands of lives and live up to your campaign promises. Don't become the next war president, Mr. Obama.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [105 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.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [102 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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 29, 2009. [100 total comments]
Stunning that someone could be this obtuse.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 26, 2009. [99 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. [94 total comments]
Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. November 30, 2009. [92 total comments]
Our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd, while the course of human history is changing. Those who choose reality over fantasy are derided as pessimists.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 2, 2009. [90 total comments]
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
Cord Jefferson, Nerve.com. November 28, 2009. [89 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.
Stephen Webster, Raw Story. November 30, 2009. [84 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.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. December 1, 2009. [81 total comments]
Since when does loving Jesus mean you have to hate our President? Prominent Christians should denounce the violently aggressive language right-wingers use to tear down Obama.
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times. November 28, 2009. [79 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.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. November 30, 2009. [74 total comments]
Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.
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?
Agence France PresseNovember 30, 2009. [64 total comments]
Obama has already ordered the new strategy implemented and is informing the leaders of Russia, Britain and France of his plans.
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?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. November 27, 2009. [52 total comments]
Scary stuff.
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 1, 2009. [49 total comments]
Raw text here.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. December 1, 2009. [40 total comments]
A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.
Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [37 total comments]
Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 2, 2009. [33 total comments]
More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation. November 30, 2009. [32 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.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 1, 2009. [29 total comments]
The debates over health-care, financial reform and everything else ring hollow as long as we ignore what lies at the root of Washington's dysfunction.
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.
Joseph Huff-Hannon, Huffington Post. December 1, 2009. [27 total comments]
The protestors say that the environmental advocacy group has aligned itself with corporate interests whose goals for reducing emissions are far too limited.
Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America. November 28, 2009. [27 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.
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."
Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. December 2, 2009. [25 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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 26, 2009. [25 total comments]
You've heard of the "war on Christmas" -- now the battle has engulfed a new holiday.
Booman, Booman TribuneAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. November 27, 2009. [24 total comments]
After complaints from everyone, including the mailman.
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. November 26, 2009. [24 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.
Tara Lohan, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 1, 2009. [23 total comments]
Everything is pink. Pink shower shoes, pink wash clothes, pink towels, pink sheets, even pink handcuffs.
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