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"Why Students Do Better Overseas," New York Times
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDPublished: December 17, 2013Why Other Countries Teach BetterWhy Students Do Better OverseasQ. & A. With Arthur LevineMillions of laid-off American factory workers were the...
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"Is Polygamy Really So Awful?" (Slate)
The Brown Family from TLC's Sister WivesA new study shows that despite what you see on reality TV, plural marriage isn’t very good for society.By Libby CopelandThese are boom times for memoirs about...
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Will Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence Subject Humankind? Science Fiction?
"Her"The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4***By Matt Miller, Published: December 18Even when our debates seem petty, you can’t say national politics doesn’t deal with weighty matters,...
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NPR: "This Stanford Ph.D. Became A Fruit Picker To Feed California's Hungry"
Sarah Ramirez runs an organization that brings excess produce to the hungry. Here, she gleans apples from a front yard.By some estimates, we Americans throw away about 40 percent of our food, from the...
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Rebirth Of San Francisco Communes, This Time For Young Professional People
"Bay Area's Steep Housing Costs Spark Return To Communal Living"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/12/19/250548681/bay-areas-steep-housing-costs-spark-return-to-communal-living
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Pope Francis: NPR's Interview With Author Of "Radical Pope"
"Who am I to judge?" With those five words, Pope Francis "stepped away from the disapproving tone, the explicit moralizing typical of popes and bishops," writes columnist James Carroll. Francis made...
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"Inequality Doesn't Matter," National Review
Alan: Notably, the following article makes no reference to successfully "socialized" civilizations in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand. Nor does it discuss America's post-war "Golden Age"...
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From Eisenhower To Obama: What The Wealthiest Americans Pay in Taxes
Ronald Reagan: Pushing the deadliest drug known to humankind.(And wishing you a Merry Christmas!)***Alan: How can nominally rational people read the following facts and still shriek "Obama is a...
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Civil War In GOP: "Even Messier Than It Looks," E.J. Dionne
By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: December 18, 2013The Republican civil war, like all civil wars, is even messier than it looks. It’s a battle between two different conservative establishments,...
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Mitt Romney Ironing a Tuxedo While Wearing It (VIDEO)
For six years, filmmaker Greg Whiteley followed Mitt Romney around as he tried, and failed, repeatedly, to become president of the United States. The product of all that access, Mitt, won't debut on...
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Poll: Many Of "The Uninsured" Think Obamacare Will Harm Them
Alan: About one third of "the uninsured" think Obamacare will hurt them. Wow. The bad news is that so many Americans have been degraded by the nation's educational and political process that they...
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How To Get A Real, Live Person To Help You Sign Up For Obamacare. It's Easy
Excerpt:"Both the federal website and most of the states operating their own health exchanges have easily identifiable ways to get help. The toll-free help lines run by the states and the federal...
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Sarah Palin Defends Duck Dynasty Star Suspended For Anti-Gay Remarks
Phil Robertson puts homosexuals in the same category with "terrorists,""prostitutes" and "drunks."(What's that Robertson's sucking on?)Alan: Mr. Robertson is welcome to say what he wants. No one is...
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Pope Francis Refers To Christians Who Don't Serve Others As "Pagans.""Ugly" Too
Alan: There is nothing wrong with being a pagan. But it is not the same as being a Christian whose prime directive is service to the poor. "Oh when did we ever see you naked or hungry Lord?" Perhaps...
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Ronald Reagan: The Smile That Could Sell Anything
Here's (pro-Apartheid) Reagan selling humankind's most deadly drug.
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Putin: "I Envy Obama's Spy Program"
Russia President Vladimir Putin says his government is not working with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, and defended President Obama over his spying program — sort of."How do I feel...
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Jon Stewart Lacerates Liberal EPA Official, John Beale, In "Charlatan's Web"
"Charlatan's Web"Part 1: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-18-2013/charlatan-s-webPart 2: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-18-2013/charlatan-s-web---john-beale
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Obamacare: Spawned By Satan (And Not Even The Christian Satan But The Islamic...
Dear Fred,Thanks for introducing me to Pyjama Boy. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366643/pajama-boy-obama-machines-id-charles-c-w-cookeRight-wingers are so caught in the heat of "the alarmist...
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The Four Gospels Online With All Jesus' Words Highlighted In Red
The Four Gospels featuring Jesus' spoken words in red.http://www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/JBPRed.htm
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New Zealand's Recently Extinct 12 Foot Tall Moa Bird
Extinct Giant Moa Bird Loses Weight, Strength, in New StudyBy Laura Poppick, Staff Writer | December 18, 2013 07:01pm ETA computer model of D. robustus (pink) next to the much smaller but more...
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