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This story has mostly positive ratings. 123 votes / 7 sinks
Holier Than They
Religion – The Puritans' intolerant vision of religious freedom is still alive and well. For all the talk of religion, the absence of care and compassion, love, acceptance and inclusion -- the essence of Christianity is missing. Here's a look at the religion of politics in America today.
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(warner.blogs.nytimes.com)
Voted for on December 14, 2007 12:39pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 110 votes / 1 sink
Americans close the book on recreational reading
Books – Despite rising education levels, a decade of Harry Potter and the near-ubiquity of big-chain bookstores, Americans of every age are reading less and less for pleasure these days, according to an analysis being released today by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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(usatoday.com)
Voted for on November 20, 2007 04:03pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 89 votes / 1 sink
Starting Tuesday, plastic bags illegal at big S.F. grocery stores
News – Attention San Francisco shoppers: Plastic grocery store bags are going, going, gone. Starting Tuesday, large grocery stores in the city can no longer use the traditional plastic bags that are a staple of the supermarket checkout line, as a city ordinance passed earlier this year to ban the bags takes effect.
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(sfgate.com)
Voted for on November 20, 2007 03:37pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 58 votes / 1 sink
Netscape Messenger 9 Alpha Released
Gadgets & Tech – We are pleased to announce the availability of the first public alpha of Netscape Messenger 9, a mail and news client, to complement the Netscape Navigator Web browser.
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(blog.netscape.com)
Voted for on November 16, 2007 11:36am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 54 votes / 5 sinks
Overlooked: Philip Johnson's New Chapel
News – A second look at a story about an architecturally significant new chapel going up at congregation for gays and lesbians.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
Sunk on November 16, 2007 11:35am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 76 votes / 9 sinks
Why Eating Less Meat Could Cut Global Warming
Food – What you choose to put on your plate can have a huge impact on the planet.
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(guardian.co.uk)
Voted for on November 12, 2007 11:13am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 434 votes / No sinks
World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N.
Health & Fitness – The world should quickly ban cloning of humans and only allow exceptions for strictly controlled research to help treat diseases such as diabetes or Alzheimer's, a U.N. study said on Sunday.
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(today.reuters.com)
Voted for on November 12, 2007 11:09am (retracted)
This story has mostly positive ratings. 206 votes / 15 sinks
The Right-Wing Relativists
Politics – When you have lost your moral moorings to the extent that you no longer can say with any "clarity" that tying someone down and repeatedly forcing them to inhale water into their lungs until they almost drown is torture, then I would suggest that you are indeed a moral relativist in the most pejorative sense of the word.
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(commonsense.ourfuture.org)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 207 votes / 17 sinks
Senator says US no longer has rights even of Middle Ages
Politics – "According to the last attorney general (Bush) was king, and maybe this one believes the same thing, he can do whatever he wants to," Harkin continued. "But even in 1215, the King of England was held to the standard of habeas corpus. I guess we want to turn the clock back to before the Magna Carta."
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(rawstory.com)
Voted for on November 09, 2007 12:20pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 63 votes / No sinks
US smokers face threat of being fired
Health & Fitness – Europeans who complain about having to step outside in mid-winter to have a cigarette or not being able to enjoy a quick puff with their espresso should spare a thought for their US counterparts.
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(rawstory.com)
Voted for on November 09, 2007 12:19pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 243 votes / 5 sinks
Congress Overrides Bush Veto First Time
Politics – President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was too expensive. It was the first in a decade that Congress has passed a bill over a presidential veto.
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(breitbart.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 192 votes / 6 sinks
Trick Question About 9/12 Stumps Giuliani
Humor – GOP presidential frontrunner Rudolph Giuliani stumbled badly at a town hall meeting in Iowa last night when an audience member baffled him with a trick question about 9/12.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 80 votes / 1 sink
A Battle Rages in London Over a Mega-Mosque Plan
Religion – Disputes over mosques have broken out across Europe. Residents from Belgium to France to Germany have expressed unease at minarets competing in the urban landscape with the spires and stones of centuries-old cathedrals.
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(nytimes.com)
Voted for on November 05, 2007 12:47pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 101 votes / 3 sinks
Father Dobbs
Television – Assaulting CNN audiences with bossy harangues, Lou Dobbs has become a major weight on public opinion. He is the only nightly anchor who regularly addresses the problems of organized labor, the meager minimum wage, the slimy influence of lobbyists, the debt bomb ticking in subprime mortgages, and the health-insurance crisis.
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(vanityfair.com)
Voted for on October 29, 2007 03:39pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks
Can new Chrysler exec do what he did for Toyota?
Autos – Jim Press drove Toyota to the top of the U.S. car market. But can he do the same for Chrysler?
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(msnbc.msn.com)
Voted for on October 05, 2007 02:05pm
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