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"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for." Tupac Amaru Shakur

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 172 votes / 1 sink

Oil hits record on Israel-Iran tensions

Money – Oil rose more than $3 a barrel on Monday to a new record above $143, propelled by heightened market fears of conflict between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.

View Story Discuss (89) (news.yahoo.com) 8 days ago by STONERS

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 185 votes / 38 sinks

O'Reilly: Obama's big advantage is money

Politics – Right now, the smart money is betting the next president of the United States will be named Obama, and dollars are the primary reason why. As you may have heard, the senator has flip-flopped on public campaign financing and now says he will not accept it, even though he once thought it was a swell idea.

View Story Discuss (438) (newsmax.com) 10 days ago by AlphaGnosis

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 154 votes / 10 sinks

Canada manual: US prisoners face torture

News – A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation.

View Story Discuss (220) (news.yahoo.com) 172 days ago by STONERS

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 118 votes / 10 sinks

Clintons No Longer The Life Of The Party

Politics – Awaiting her coronation here last night, Hillary Rodham Clinton instead faced a seething revolt within her own party.

View Story Discuss (153) (nypost.com) 186 days ago by AlphaGnosis

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 114 votes / 3 sinks

TIME Person of the Year For 2007 - Vladimir Putin

News – No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking.

View Story Discuss (71) (time.com) 202 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on December 20, 2007 10:48am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 240 votes / 13 sinks

Elvira Arellano Arrested

News – After spending a year in a church to avoid prosecution as an illegal immigrant, Elvira Arellano was arrested Saturday when she left her sanctuary to campaign for immigration reform.

View Story Discuss (465) (cbs2.com) 324 days ago by Ryan

Voted for on August 20, 2007 11:24am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 177 votes / 17 sinks

Pakistanis Protest Barak Obama's Invasion Threats

News – On Wednesday, Barak Obama pledged that he would ignore Al-Qaeda in Iraq but would invade US ally Pakistan to hunt down members of the terror organization. On Friday, Pakistanis took to the streets to protest Obama's invasion threats. Of course, US flags were also torched.

View Story Discuss (427) (gatewaypundit.blogspot.com) 338 days ago by BoBo in Texas

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 173 votes / 9 sinks

The Abu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal

Politics – The US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison found himself a marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld.

View Story Discuss (102) (news.bbc.co.uk) 338 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on August 06, 2007 10:36pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 227 votes / 22 sinks

Getting Iraq Wrong

Politics – The unfolding catastrophe in Iraq has condemned the political judgment of a president. But it has also condemned the judgment of many others, myself included, who as commentators supported the invasion.

View Story Discuss (400) (nytimes.com) 338 days ago by deathray

Voted for on August 05, 2007 01:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 83 votes / 5 sinks

Iraq's national electricity grid nearing collapse

Politics – Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provincial officials who are unplugging local power stations from the national system, electricity officials said on Saturday.

View Story Discuss (45) (msnbc.msn.com) 339 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on August 05, 2007 01:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Iowa Republicans Are Not Thrilled With Presidential Field

Politics – As the Republican presidential candidates gather this morning in Des Moines for their fourth debate, Iowa GOP voters are expressing limited enthusiasm for the field of current and potential aspirants, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Their views appear to be a microcosm of GOP sentiment across the country and point to a wide open b

View Story Discuss (2) (washingtonpost.com) 338 days ago by Raiderwall

Voted for on August 05, 2007 01:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 164 votes / 7 sinks

Official: $20 billion arms sale to Saudis in the works

Politics – The United States is developing a proposed $20 billion, 10-year arms sales package for Saudi Arabia, a senior administration official confirmed on Saturday. The proposed sale, first reported in The New York Times, is intended to upgrade the Saudi military's ability to counter possible Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf region, the official said

View Story Discuss (399) (cnn.com) 346 days ago by qilla

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 229 votes / 40 sinks

The outrageous White House report on Iraq.

Do No Evil – The White House report released today, on how far Iraq has progressed toward 18 political and military benchmarks, is a sham.

View Story Discuss (214) (slate.com) 361 days ago by deathray

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 234 votes / 17 sinks

Bush Orders Miers Not to Testify

Politics – President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to appear Thursday before a House panel investigating U.S. attorney firings.

View Story Discuss (404) (npr.org) 363 days ago by Worldview

Voted for on July 12, 2007 10:45am