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JFK's 'New Frontier' Speech at the DNC July 1960

Popular Videos – John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic nomination at the July 15, 1960 Democratic National Convention.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 15, 2008 02:48pm

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Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down MCA

Politics – In a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential power -- and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which has supported the Bush detention policies -- the U.S. Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 decision, declared Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 12, 2008 11:23pm

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Failed Super Collider lab in Texas gathers weeds

Science – Had the Superconducting Super Collider been completed as planned, the magnet would now lie in a 54-mile-long tunnel. After spending billions of dollars, Congress axed the SSC 15 yrs ago. The lab and magnet now sit near the Texas A&M campus, a weathered reminder of what might have been and an apt metaphor for the state of US high-energy physics

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Submitted and Voted for on May 25, 2008 12:27pm

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Jello Biafra responds to Savage's Dead-Ted-Kennedy rant

Do No Evil – The Dead Kennedys' front man blasts conservative attack-radio douchebag Michael Savage: "It scares the s**t out of me that the most popular radio talk-show hosts are all foaming-at-the-mouth, ultra-bigoted blabbermongers whom only North Korea or the Nazis could love."

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Submitted and Voted for on May 24, 2008 05:47pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / 1 sink

McCain's on Ambien. So much for the 3am call

Politics – Sleeping pills have been proven to be more potent in the elderly. Um, has anyone noticed McCain is elderly? Let's connect the dots. "The key is to use sleeping meds in moderation and don't mix them with other sedative drugs or alcohol. Most importantly, avoid use in the event you have to consider escalation from Defcon 4 to Defcon 3."

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Submitted and Voted for on May 24, 2008 03:26pm

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The revolution will not be pasteurized

Food – The very thing that makes raw milk dangerous, its dirtiness, may make people healthier, and pasteurization could be cleansing beneficial bacteria from milk. Milk as it emerges from the teat, it seems, is both panacea and poison.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 26, 2008 03:27pm

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Could the Universe be a Gigantic Brain Cell?

Science – One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different phenomena.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 26, 2008 02:20pm

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Chertoff's Legal Advice Led to First Case of Waterboarding

Politics – When the CIA wanted assurances in the summer of 2002 that their agents would not be prosecuted for using brutal interrogation methods against a so-called high-level detainee in custody the agency turned to Michael Chertoff, the former head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 20, 2008 02:09pm

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Unleashing the Bugs of War

Science – So what's hot at DARPA right now? Bugs. The creepy, crawly flying kind. Scientist Amit Lal and his team insert mechanical components into baby bugs during "the caterpillar and the pupae stages," which would then allow the adult bugs to be deployed to do the Pentagon's bidding.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 20, 2008 02:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / 1 sink

S.F. video cameras don't deter crime, study shows

News – A new UC Berkeley study of San Francisco's 68 security cameras appears to indicate what many city officials have long suspected: The controversial devices perched at the city's roughest street corners don't have much of an effect on violent crime.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 21, 2008 12:44pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / 1 sink

Siberian villagers contend with constant rain of space junk

Science – Altai lies along the flight path of rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in nearby Kazakhstan. Unlike rockets launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which shed excess stages into the Atlantic Ocean, large sections from rockets launched from Baikonur crash back to Earth and land on the Kazakh steppe.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 16, 2008 05:19pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / No sinks

Reporters praise McCain for embracing positions he rejects

Politics – Yes, McCain used to criticize U.S. torture policies, but last month, when push came to shove and McCain's principles ran into conflict with McCain's political agenda, his principles lost. The bill Bush is going to veto tomorrow? McCain voted against it, despite what MSNBC's national television audience was led to believe.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 08, 2008 03:57pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 53 votes / 3 sinks

Obama: I'll discard Bush's unconstitutional executive orders

Politics – Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in Casper today that he would restore respect for law in the White House by reviewing every executive order issued by President George W. Bush and discarding any deemed unconstitutional.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 08, 2008 02:52pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 40 votes / No sinks

Britons throw away half of the food produced each year

Food – About 20m tons of food is thrown out each year: equivalent to half of the food import needs for the whole of Africa. Some 16m tons of this is wasted in homes, shops, restaurants, hotels and food manufacturing.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 02, 2008 12:59pm

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Obama cabinet may include Hagel as SecDef

Politics – Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet and Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain's closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defence secretary.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 02, 2008 12:37pm

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