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Why Were West Virginia's Chemical Spill Regulations Loose? By Any Chance Money?
And guess why those regulations are loose? Could it be money? Bing, bing, bing, we have a winner. "[L]awmakers have yet to explain why the storage facility was allowed to sit on the river and so close...
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Mixed Race Comedian Trevor Noah Riffs On Life Under Apartheid
Wonkbook recommends: I am in awe of Trevor Noah.
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Laundering Money - Literally - Could Save Billions Of Dollars
"Supercritical Fluid Cleaning of Banknotes"Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchA dollar bill gets around, passing from hand to hand, falling on streets and sidewalks, eventually getting so...
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Pope Francis Encourages Mothers To Breastfeed Babies In Sistine Chapel
Pope Francis baptizes 32 babies in Sistine ChapelReutersBy Philip Pullella1-12-2014Video: http://news.yahoo.com/feed-babies-want-pope-tells-mothers-sistine-chapel-105540106.htmlRelated StoriesFrancis...
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Pastor Accused Of Paying Homeless To Fire-Bomb Ex: ‘I Never Did Pay Them’
"The Bible Belt Is Christianity's Worst Enemy"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-bible-belt-is-christianitys-enemy.htmlNot even a day after he was released from jail for allegedly...
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80% Of Congregation Quits After Indiana Church Forces Our Gay Choir Director
A church in Indiana has seen about 80 percent of its members leave after a gay choral director was forced out over his sexual orientation.Adam Fraley told The Herald Bulletin that he worked for the...
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Mikhail Kalashnikov Repented Creation Of AK-47: "My spiritual pain is...
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, turned to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the months before his death to express remorse for those killed by his...
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What Liberals Get Wrong About Single Payer
BY EZRA KLEINJanuary 13, 2013Michael Moore greeted the introduction of Obamacare with an admission many liberals will cheer. “Obamacare is awful,” he wrote.Its awfulness, Moore said, stems from “one...
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India Has Eradicated Polio. This Is A BIG DEAL
Vaccination Denial(I make no bones about the fact that vaccination resistors infuriate me. Vaccination is the greatest medical boon in...
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Barbara Ehrenreich: "It Is Expensive To Be Poor"
Binita Pradham is a single mother who runs a food business and raises her 4-year-old son. (Barbara Reis)It Is Expensive to Be PoorMinimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable...
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Peak Water Is Here And Unlike Peak Oil, Water Has No Substitute
Peak water is here and unlike peak oil, there is no substitution for water. But like peak oil the low-hanging fruit of our fresh water supply has been picked and what is left requires costly...
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Gringos Are Nuts: Ex-Cop Kills Cinema Texter
Man killed in theater over textingSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNeighbor says victim was a nice guy, didn't get angry, CNN affiliate reportsSuspected shooter is a retired Tampa police officerOnly one shot was fired,...
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Benghazibridge Is a Disaster for the Republican Party
Eric Thayer/ReutersFor the GOP to win in 2016, its candidate will have to win over people who dislike the party. Right now, Chris Christie is the only likely contender capable of doing that.PETER...
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Men Deliberately Anger Their Opponents In Order To Win
Detroit Tigers manager Billy Martin disagrees with an umpire in 1973: Was he trying to anger him?Christine Dell'AmoreNational GeographicPUBLISHED JANUARY 13, 2014From a wheedling teenager to a...
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Industrial Chemicals Are The Most Poorly Tested Chemicals In The World
Fact and Fiction »fact 1: health studies are not required»fact 2: people vary in sensitivity»fact 3: children are most vulnerable»fact 4: cancer is on the rise»fiction 1: 'doses are too low to cause...
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Scant Data Available on Chemical Spilled In West Virginia
A stretch of the Elk River on January 10, 2014, after a chemical spill that affected nine counties.***Industrial Chemicals Are The Most Poorly Tested Chemicals In The...
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Very Useful Obamacare Enrollment Graphs
Wonkbook's Graph of the Day: How Obamacare enrollment has progressed over time, the age breakdown, and the plan-level breakdown.
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December Budget Surplus Of $54 Billion
"Federal revenue climbed by 8% to $664.60 billion in the first three months of the latest fiscal year. Individual income and payroll taxes accounted for the bulk of the increase, largely a result of...
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Stiglitz: The View Behind Job "Growth" And The Sucking Sound Of "The 1%"
"A disproportionate share of the jobs now being created are low-paying - so much so that median incomes (those in the middle) continue to decline. For most Americans, there is no recovery, with 95% of...
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Why Lagging Young People Sign-Ups For Obamacare Is Probably Alright
Right wing cynicism is so ridiculous that it's politically advantageous promoting it.***"Is 24 percent of sign-ups coming in among young adults bad news for the Affordable Care Act? It is, obviously,...
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