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One Soldier's Suicide: James Jenkins

Do No Evil – Suicides among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are reaching epidemic proportions. More than 6,000 veterans took their lives in 2005 alone, according to a study by CBS News. By some estimates, veterans are attempting suicide 1,000 times a month.

View Story Discuss (27) (newsproject.org) 2 days ago by jovial

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Church this Way; State that Way
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Church this Way; State that Way

Religion – This Spadecaller video features a speech delivered at Notre Dame by Governor Mario Cuomo (1983) on the subject of religious belief and public morality. The mixing of politics and religion have morphed into a dangerous morass. Which candidate and party does Jesus Christ endorse?

View Story Discuss (65) (youtube.com) 3 days ago by Spadecaller

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 105 votes / 23 sinks

The Audacity of Vanity

Politics – He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.

View Story Discuss (263) (realclearpolitics.com) 5 days ago by catstevens

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 81 votes / No sinks

Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy

Politics – Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions, accompanied by suggested answers, that the candidate is likely to be asked about international relations during the day.

View Story Discuss (160) (nytimes.com) 6 days ago by libsRfunny

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Keep Loaded Guns Out of National Parks
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Keep Loaded Guns Out of National Parks

Do No Evil – The NRA somehow convinced the government that gun owners should be able to bring loaded firearms into parks. Loaded firearms add the threat of accidental discharge, could increase wildlife poaching and are a risk to park visitors.

View Story Discuss (67) (qassia.com) 7 days ago by hurr1

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Nazi Jews: A Historical Paradox
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Nazi Jews: A Historical Paradox

Books – Would it surprise anyone to learn that there were upwards of 150, 000 soldiers of partial Jewish descent serving in the Nazi army during World War II?

View Story Discuss (98) (briancuban.com) 6 days ago by bcuban

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 97 votes / No sinks

IndyMac Crash: Portrait of a Panic

Money – America has been shaken by photos and video reports of angry customers lined up to withdraw their money from branch offices of the failed IndyMac bank. Such images would not have been seen during America's last great financial disaster...

View Story Discuss (14) (thenation.com) 6 days ago by scott4261

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 38 votes / 5 sinks

If Obama Can't Handle Satire, How Will He Handle Real Attacks?

Politics – Let's be frank. People sophisticated enough to read, say, newspaper editorials are smart enough to know that the New Yorker's cover art this week -- portraying Barack Obama as a be-turbaned Muslim and wife Michelle as an Afro-sporting terrorist with an AK-47 across her back -- is a work of satire. But what about the millions of dumb Americans who w

View Story Discuss (22) (latimes.com) 9 days ago by JessicaLaurie

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Murdering God: Of Shotguns, American Capitalism, and Moral Expediency
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Murdering God: Of Shotguns, American Capitalism, and Moral Expediency

Religion – Experiencing decreasing levels of the comfort that ensures our loyalty to the criminal enterprise of American Capitalism, we "average" US Americans comprising the poor, working class, and rapidly shrinking middle class still revel in our relatively meaningless social freedoms.

View Story Discuss (85) (opednews.com) 8 days ago by jovial

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Mass. Senate votes to let out-of-state gays marry
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Mass. Senate votes to let out-of-state gays marry

Gay & Lesbian – Out-of-state gay couples got one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding Tuesday when the state Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law that has been used to bar them from marrying here.

View Story Discuss (174) (news.yahoo.com) 8 days ago by TechnologyExpert

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Senator says Defense Department must eliminate sexual assaults
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Senator says Defense Department must eliminate sexual assaults

Women – Sen. Bob Casey says he continues to hear many complaints about sexual harassment and abuse from women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he wants the Defense Department to do more to stop mistreatment and provide more care for victims.

View Story Discuss (29) (armytimes.com) 9 days ago by bubba2

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Kucinich's Fight to Impeach Bush
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Kucinich's Fight to Impeach Bush

Politics – Rep. Dennis Kucinich continued his seemingly quixotic crusade to impeach President Bush last week. But with Speaker Pelosi suggesting the House Judiciary Committee may hear his argument, Kucinich might get his day very soon.

View Story Discuss (193) (newsproject.org) 8 days ago by jovial

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 149 votes / 6 sinks

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" may go to Supreme Court

Gay & Lesbian – Federal appeals courts recently have come down on both sides of the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals serving in the military, raising the possibility that the Supreme Court might take up the issue.

View Story Discuss (98) (armytimes.com) 10 days ago by bubba2

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Barack Obama: My Plan for Iraq
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Barack Obama: My Plan for Iraq

Politics – THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.

View Story Discuss (49) (nytimes.com) 10 days ago by Beau7890

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 91 votes / 16 sinks

Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism

Politics – Barack Obama said yesterday that "instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English," Americans "need to make sure your child can speak Spanish." A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U.S. voters overwhelmingly disagree with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

View Story Discuss (301) (rasmussenreports.com) 11 days ago by RedRiverJ

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