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Is Howard Dean Getting Screwed and Why?
He's been a governor, an inspiring grassroots hero, a reformer of the Democratic Party -- will he join Obama's White House or head back home?Is Howard Dean getting a raw deal? Barack Obama owes many...
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5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed
Here are five significant under-the-radar things to be grateful for in the post-Bush era.It's been a full month since the inauguration of Barack Obama. With debates raging over the financial system and...
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Twitter Nation Has Arrived: How Scared Should We Be?
Can it be long before the entire country is tweeting away in the din of a giant turd-covered silicon aviary?Welcome to Twitter Nation. What was once an easily avoided subculture of needy and annoying...
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Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust
Millions of boomers born into the dawn of the largest economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures.It all happened faster than you can say “senior discount.”...
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Obama's Serious About Taking an Axe to Corruption and Waste at the Pentagon
Obama has been devoting time to talk about defense spending reform, and has assembled a team to make sure it happens.Of all Barack Obama’s promises of reform, perhaps the most audacious is his pledge...
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Fake Teabaggers Are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: Real Populists Want to Stop...
The tea parties are AstroTurf -- fake grassroots. But there is a real movement growing against corporate greed and government malfeasance.This afternoon, groups of angry conservatives will gather on...
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Paranoid Right-Wingers See Obama's Volunteer Service Project as Sinister Plot...
Who could be against helping veterans, the elderly, youth and the planet? 168 Congressional Republicans and scores of the lunatic fringe.The far right has seen the fresh face of fascism, and it looks...
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Is Glenn Beck the Orson Welles of Our Time?
Understanding FOX News' biggest star.Fox News host Glenn Beck has done all the necessary spadework to position himself at the center of a brewing and increasingly paranoid right-wing insurgency.From...
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Have You Ever Taken Ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon?
My account of a night high on the "Ayahuasca madre" with the Ashaninka tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest.Noemi Vagus, an Ashaninka shaman, standing in front of an Ayahuasca vine in the Peruvian...
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Bogus Think Tank "Third Way" Pops Up to Thwart Health Care Reform
Third Way is drenched in corporate money, tangled in ties to big business and bent on Clintonian triangulation. How dare it call itself progressive?A couple of weeks ago, the slippery think tank Third...
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The Dark Side of Climate Change: It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a...
Father of the Gaia Theory, James Lovelock says we can't stop climate change, but that humanity will continue in some smaller form.The recent narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey energy bill, better...
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As If Limbaugh and Beck Weren't Bad Enough, the Granddaddy of Hate Radio Is...
Bob Grant taught a generation of conservative talkers how to channel white rage, until a listener boycott helped push him off the air. Now he's back.Here's a talk radio riddle: What do Glenn Beck's...
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For Glenn Beck, SEIU Is 'Radical, Marxist,' Except When Its Nurses Treat Him...
Beck described SEIU nurse care as "amazing" after his inflamed appendix was removed.Earlier today, a hospitalized Glenn Beck tweeted in praise of the "AMAZING drs/nurses" who have cared for him since...
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Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks
Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.It is among the most wondrous mysteries of the ancient world: how did the Maya, a...
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The Weird World of Occult America -- How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
Author Mitch Horowitz's new book unleashes America's occult past.If witch-burning Puritans are the original jocks of American history, then the mystics surrounding Johannes Kelpius are the first goths....
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Glenn Beck Is Still Smearing Van Jones, Even After Jones Takes High Road...
Six months after Gateway Pundit forced Jones' White House resignation over a 9/11 petition, Beck revives ridiculous red-baiting act.The following is an adapted excerpt from Alexander Zaitchik's...
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Where Did David Brooks Get the Bizarre Idea That the Tea Party Crowd...
The Tea Party that worships Sarah Palin and screams for Barack Obama's birth certificate doesn't merit comparison to positive social movements of the 1960s.There is a fresh interpretive fad in the...
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How the IRS Helps H&R Block Scam Taxpayers
Tax preparation giants are making a killing on short-term, high-interest, fee-laden loans on tax returns.Editor's Note:Liberty Tax Service, H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt are making out like bandits...
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Obama and Dems Put a Stop to the Republicans' Kickback Cash Cow in the...
For years, Sallie Mae fed on taxpayers to finance Republican campaigns and private golf courses for their executives. No more.Reining in insurers and expanding health coverage for Americans aren't the...
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How Stanislav Grof Helped Launch the Dawn of a New Psychedelic Research Era
The world of medicine may finally be ready to catch back up with psychedelic pioneers, whose work was rejected a half-century ago.Next week, the brightest lights of the psychedelic cognoscenti will...
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