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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. [142 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.
Raj Patel, Picador Press. November 30, 2009. [137 total comments]
The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 25, 2009. [135 total comments]
This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [120 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.
George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. [100 total comments]
Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 29, 2009. [100 total comments]
Stunning that someone could be this obtuse.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [100 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.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. [95 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.
Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha. November 26, 2009. [91 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.
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times. November 28, 2009. [73 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.
Stephen Webster, Raw Story. November 30, 2009. [69 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.
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?
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.
Agence France PresseNovember 30, 2009. [61 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?
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.
Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. November 28, 2009. [37 total comments]
Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 1, 2009. [36 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.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. December 1, 2009. [33 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.
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.
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. [27 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: Politics. November 26, 2009. [25 total comments]
You've heard of the "war on Christmas" -- now the battle has engulfed a new holiday.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 25, 2009. [25 total comments]
Seriously.
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: PEEK. November 25, 2009. [24 total comments]
And 'fat' here is most definitely a relative term.
Booman, Booman TribuneAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. November 27, 2009. [24 total comments]
After complaints from everyone, including the mailman.
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