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Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [190 total comments]
Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.
AlterNetNovember 19, 2009. [163 total comments]
Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."
Max Blumenthal, Tomdispatch.com. November 16, 2009. [157 total comments]
Palin's influence on a party largely devoid of leadership is expanding. If she doesn't become the GOP's future queen, she may be its future king-maker -- and its destroyer.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 18, 2009. [148 total comments]
Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 17, 2009. [142 total comments]
Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009. [117 total comments]
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Dahr Jamail, AlterNet. November 21, 2009. [115 total comments]
"This would do irreparable harm to her child. I think they are doing this to punish her."
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. [105 total comments]
First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they're threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage.
Liliana Segura, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 20, 2009. [99 total comments]
The TX Board of Pardons voted to spare the life of Robert Lee Thompson, who took part in a robbery that led to a murder. The killer is serving life. Perry chose to kill him anyway.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [93 total comments]
Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. [93 total comments]
It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects.
David DeGraw, Amped Status. November 21, 2009. [90 total comments]
Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far?
Eleanor Bader, RH Reality CheckAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 16, 2009. [87 total comments]
"Life is not a playground," says Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas in The Kingdom Leadership Institute Manual. "It is a war zone."
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. November 16, 2009. [86 total comments]
We continue to be childishly delusional about our dark economic and environmental prospects. Unfortunately, reality isn't amenable to lies and spin.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress. November 20, 2009. [81 total comments]
A new slogan is making its way onto t-shirts and even teddy bears: 'Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8,' which reads, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. November 17, 2009. [78 total comments]
Fancy new book readers save lots of trees, yes, but I'll pass.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. November 16, 2009. [77 total comments]
At the same time, the Justice Department is being strongly criticized for keeping the military commissions in place to try some suspects.
Johann Hari, Independent UK. November 17, 2009. [76 total comments]
Former radical Islamists share their tales of why they turned to extremism, and why they repented.
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. November 20, 2009. [75 total comments]
Historically, the burden of family planning has almost always fallen on women. Isn't it about time for that to change?
Bob Herbert, The New York Times. November 16, 2009. [67 total comments]
The young, the black and the poor are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. [67 total comments]
The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. [67 total comments]
Far enough to completely contradict themselves, apparently.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. [61 total comments]
The NY Times has just discovered that "douche" is used as an insult in mainstream media. Why do they seem to see the spread of a term derogatory to women as progress?
Liz Langley, Liz Langley's BlogAlterNet: Sex and Relationships. November 18, 2009. [58 total comments]
It's rare a story about banning gay marriage actually has a silver lining.
Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Online. November 18, 2009. [58 total comments]
To liberals, she epitomizes the anti-choice far right of the GOP. But to American Right to Life, Sarah Palin is not pure enough.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 16, 2009. [48 total comments]
They must not love America very much.
Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. November 18, 2009. [46 total comments]
The House health-care bill isn't just a threat to women's rights; with the Stupak amendment, it's a breach of the Constitution.
Lindsay Beyerstein, MajikthiseAlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2009. [45 total comments]
We are very close to tasering infants for crying.
Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat. November 19, 2009. [44 total comments]
Controversial new recommendations on breast cancer prevention have caused a stir in the women's health community. But do yearly mammograms really change death rates?
Alex Seitz-Wald, Think ProgressAlterNet: Media and Technology. November 16, 2009. [43 total comments]
This statement appeared to be too much, even for Glenn Beck, who replied, "Uh, I don't think that's necessary.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. November 21, 2009. [40 total comments]
Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 18, 2009. [39 total comments]
An independent study predicts that the Stupak amendment could end insurance coverage of abortions -- for everyone -- in the long-run.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 18, 2009. [38 total comments]
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Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 17, 2009. [36 total comments]
Horrifying.
Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. November 17, 2009. [32 total comments]
12 year old Benjamin French lives in one of 33 states where insurance companies are allowed to set annual and lifetime caps on prosthetic coverage.
Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. [30 total comments]
A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNetAlterNet: Video. November 21, 2009. [29 total comments]
Palin's associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theory
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. November 17, 2009. [28 total comments]
In a recent study, prejudiced people were more likely to support the health plan when it was linked to Bill Clinton, than when it was linked to Obama.
Melissa McEwan, ShakesvilleAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 16, 2009. [28 total comments]
Prejean was wrong about same-sex marriage. She's not any more wrong if she's a moral scold with an expressed sexuality of her own.
WebEcoistNovember 21, 2009. [25 total comments]
Many ideas for stemming environmental catastrophe have turned out to be impossible, dangerous, or just … ridiculous.
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