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Matt Damon goes looking for WMD in The Green Zone. - What Does Whale Taste Like?
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill. - High Society
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John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship. - The Trouble With Climate Science
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Health reform's first political casualty may be a Republican. - Dewey Defeat Truman
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From home birth to home abortion. - A Private Matter
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Why aren't Republicans raising holy hell about Obamacare's payroll tax hike? - Rahm Emanuel: Bug or Feature?
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Monday, March 8, 2010
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History reveals a long-standing local authority to regulate guns. Shouldn't that matter? - Yamani or Your Life
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There's something odd about the billboard campaign against aborting black babies. The child who appears beside the text is fully born. Abortion doesn't kill such children. What kills them, all too often, is shooting. If you wanted to save living, breathing, fully born children from a tool of extermination that is literally targeting blacks, the first problem you would focus on is guns. They are killing the present, not just the future. But the sponsors of the billboards don't support gun control. They oppose it. Read More -
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