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Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. December 23, 2009. [415 total comments]
Beautiful as it is, the story of the birth of Jesus is a myth born of the political needs of early Christians.
Drew Westen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [312 total comments]
Somehow Obama has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters of 2010.
Kirk Nielsen, Miller-McCune.com. December 25, 2009. [300 total comments]
Books by Chris Hedges, Thom Hartmann and Cass Sunstein suggest that we've nearly lost our sense of self-government. None show the way to get it back.
Clancy Sigal, Comment Is Free. December 24, 2009. [251 total comments]
Obama's cruel and pointless refusal to ban child-killing landmines was my personal breaking point against the candidate I worked hard to elect.
Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Robert Kuttner, Bill Moyers Journal. December 21, 2009. [236 total comments]
Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 22, 2009. [159 total comments]
As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.
Peter Asmus, East Bay Express. December 24, 2009. [122 total comments]
A dozen nonprofits are going right after the company's greed, and the outcome will likely have repercussions in the oil industry for years to come.
* Staff, Media Matters for America. December 22, 2009. [120 total comments]
Beck's unbridled ignorance and confidence in his own manipulative half-truths and lies make him the most dangerously effective misinformer of 2009.
Juan Cole, Informed Comment. December 22, 2009. [115 total comments]
Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.
Naomi Klein, TheNation.com. December 21, 2009. [114 total comments]
No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. Is he blowing it?
Kathryn Joyce, Religion Dispatches. December 21, 2009. [107 total comments]
Thanks to anti-abortion forces in Congress and other culture warriors, female soldiers are not protected by the Constitution they defend.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 23, 2009. [101 total comments]
Can we just have a reality-based discussion of the policy?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 21, 2009. [95 total comments]
As intellectually dishonest as one could get.
Harold Pollack, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [87 total comments]
We can all agree that the Senate health care bill is far from perfect. What now?
Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [68 total comments]
Recently we asked our readers to rank the most influential progressives. Here are the results.
Chris Bowers, Open LeftAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [68 total comments]
Really, it's pretty simple.
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. December 21, 2009. [67 total comments]
Why does it seem as if we're in an action movie in which the fate of the Earth is at stake?
Anonymous, New America Media. December 24, 2009. [63 total comments]
Veteran with PTSD: "I don't feel comfortable at home anymore. My threat tolerance and response to perceived threats is so finely tuned that I felt safer in Iraq. "
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [59 total comments]
Maybe I'm missing something.
Agence France PresseDecember 26, 2009. [58 total comments]
A young Nigerian man with reported links to Al-Qaeda was under arrest Saturday after trying to blow up a US airlinerv headed for Detroit.
Thers, Whiskey FireAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [57 total comments]
When Chuck Norris wishes you a happy holiday ...
Kevin Connor, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [54 total comments]
Barney Frank takes pride in being the Left's darling, but he's almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [48 total comments]
Franken's measure passed, 68 to 30.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [47 total comments]
Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.
Matt Gertz, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 23, 2009. [43 total comments]
No chance now to try to preserve her credibility now.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. December 21, 2009. [34 total comments]
Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now -- and that number is quickly rising.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 21, 2009. [30 total comments]
Wigged out cops on steroids is as frightening as one could imagine.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 22, 2009. [30 total comments]
According to a new book, Osama bin Laden attempted to assassinate President Bill Clinton during a summit in the Philippines in 1996.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [28 total comments]
The award was bequeathed by Politifact, an independent fact-checker.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 24, 2009. [28 total comments]
According to the logic of some, it's a debatable point.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [27 total comments]
Ellison still fighting.
Elizabeth Black, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [26 total comments]
Many women would be surprised to learn that men often fake orgasms. But why? Our limited, patriarchal view of sexuality, of course.
Bill Gates, Sr., Chuck Collins, AlterNet. December 21, 2009. [26 total comments]
What horrors will befall our nation's wealthy when one of the most bizarre twists in tax legislation in history comes to pass?
CREW Staff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. December 24, 2009. [26 total comments]
Madoff, Sanford and Murtha are just a few who made it onto the top 10 list of the nation's most ethically challenged players of the year.
Amanda Terkel, Think ProgressAlterNet: World. December 21, 2009. [26 total comments]
Under a new policy enacted by Major Gen. Anthony Cucolo, troops expecting a baby face court martial and possible prison -- and so do the men who made them pregnant.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, AlterNet. December 24, 2009. [25 total comments]
Supporters of the weak Senate bill say "just pass it -- any bill is better than no bill." I strongly disagree.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [25 total comments]
With no public option or Medicare buy-in, the Senate's health-care reform bill passes in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [22 total comments]
In an economy structured around industrial agriculture, sustaining small farms can be a challenge. 'Slow money' economics could be the answer.
Sheldon Whitehouse, AlterNet. December 21, 2009. [22 total comments]
In his Senate floor speech on the health-care bill, the Rhode Island senator accused the GOP of fomenting the kind of paranoia that led to Kristallnacht and lynchings.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [22 total comments]
Happy whatever to you and yours.
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