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Check out the 40 stories and blog posts most commented on in the past week.
Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. December 23, 2009. [434 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. [301 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.
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. [128 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. [116 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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 23, 2009. [101 total comments]
Can we just have a reality-based discussion of the policy?
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?
Chris Bowers, Open LeftAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [69 total comments]
Really, it's pretty simple.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [68 total comments]
Recently we asked our readers to rank the most influential progressives. Here are the results.
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. "
Agence France PresseDecember 26, 2009. [59 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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [59 total comments]
Maybe I'm missing something.
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. [44 total comments]
No chance now to try to preserve her credibility now.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 24, 2009. [29 total comments]
According to the logic of some, it's a debatable point.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [28 total comments]
The award was bequeathed by Politifact, an independent fact-checker.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 24, 2009. [27 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.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [27 total comments]
Ellison still fighting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [22 total comments]
Happy whatever to you and yours.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. December 24, 2009. [20 total comments]
Calling the Senate's health bill a "awesome achievement" like Paul Krugman did is to encourage the preservation of a hideously broken system.
Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [20 total comments]
Tesla makes a sleek electric roadster at $110,000. A new model's generating buzz, but one possible manufacturing site's haunted by ghosts of the old economy.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [20 total comments]
I was working on my list of New Year's resolutions when it occurred to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions.
Amanda Terkel, Think ProgressAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 23, 2009. [19 total comments]
But he also has no plans to expand soldiers' access to emergency contraception (Plan B).
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 24, 2009. [17 total comments]
Security failed the Pontiff.
Dr. Joseph Romm, Climate ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [17 total comments]
Unfortunately, the list is pretty long.
Thers, Whiskey FireAlterNet: World. December 26, 2009. [17 total comments]
Thanks, Jerk
Bruce Wilson, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 25, 2009. [16 total comments]
Protestants banned Christmas in Scotland for 4 centuries.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 24, 2009. [15 total comments]
If it passes, it's just not likely to be unpassed -- here's why.
Zaid Jilani, Think ProgressAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [14 total comments]
Despite his history of supporting the government-run insurance plan, Obama did little to pressure lawmakers when it mattered most.
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