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Elk River Chemical Spill And The Larger Issue Of Clean Water
"List of West Virginia customers told to avoid using water due to chemical spill grows" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/w-va-customers-told-water-chemical-spill-article-1.1571664***Audio File:...
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God Is Immanent
Alan: Immanence need not deny transcendence. This is the direction I think Pope Francis is headed."Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.""Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?' Jesus of...
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Best New Yorker Cartoon Ever. "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But..."
"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-economics-101-curricula.html
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Are Big Banks Too Big To Fail?
Debate: Are big banks too big to fail? With contributions from Anat Admati, Simon Johnson, and Philip L. Swagel that are worth reading. The New York Times5%!You've been warned...... not by "communist"...
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Obama To Use Maryland As A Laboratory For Health Care Cost Contaiment
"The Obama administration is set to announce Friday an ambitious health-care experiment that will make Maryland a test case for whether aggressive government regulation of medical prices can...
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The New York Times' Most Popular Story of 2013 Was Not an Article
It was a dialect quizRobinson MeyerJanuary 17, 2014The New York Times has released its list of most-visited stories of 2013. As The Atlantic’s business editor Derek Thompson noted, they include four...
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New York Times: "Patients' Costs Skyrocket; Speciallists Incomes Soar"
Launch media viewerDr. Brett Coldiron removes suspected cancerous skin cells from a patient during Mohs surgery at The Skin Cancer Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.Alan: It is a "dirty little secret" of...
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A Brand New, Simple Way To Do Banking
Alan: Personally I'm a big fan of credit unions and think it unfair that commercial banks have a lock on business negotiations. If the "too big to fail" banks played on an even playing field with...
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NASA Perplexed by Mysterious Mars Rock Unlike Anything They've Ever Seen Before
Life on Mars has yet to be found, although the Curiosity rover did find some compelling evidence last year that the Red Planet once had free-flowing, liquid water on its surface. That is about as...
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Where's The Train Wreck?
ObamacareWhat Republicans predicted.What Obamacare delivered.***Delusional conservatives injure The Body Politic.Given their druthers, most Americans would be in hasty retreat to the 12th...
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The Problem Isn't What Christie's Aides Did. It's What They Thought He Wanted...
BY EZRA KLEINJanuary 18, 2014Chris Christie's problem was never that some of his closest aides thought it would be a good idea to punish a mayor by closing lanes on a bridge. Christie's problem was...
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George Zimmerman's Private Arsenal
Lest we forget...Handguns are designed to kill human beings.Will we be safer with more well-armed vigilantes?Or will we be more barbarian than we already are?***Here's Jesus' answer..."Gun Cartoons and...
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., "One Speech, One Dream" (Time Magazine)
The following article by Time magazine is a fine, detailed exposition of King's civil rights movement.(Please note the somewhat hard-to-find small-font menu at the top of the...
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"Some Doctors Are Making Out Like Bandits While The Nation Drowns In Debt"
Morning Break: Docs Getting RichPublished: Jan 20, 2014By MedPage Today StaffSome doctors are making out like bandits while the nation drowns in debt mostly related to out-of-control spending on...
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Remembering Martin Luther King's Largely Forgotten Pacifist Mentor, Bayard...
Bayard RustinWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin***By Hector TobarJanuary 20, 2014Every year, Americans remember the life of the man became a symbol of courage and struggle. Martin...
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"What's Behind Iraq Violence?" (Christian Science Monitor)
Civilians gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, north of Baghdad, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. The car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded in Tuz Khurmatu, a town contested...
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Martin Luther King's "Letter From A Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy (background) leave Birmingham City Jail following their release on April 20, 1963, after eight days of imprisonment. (Associated Press)Fifty years ago today,...
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Are Republicans Taking Their Cues From South African "Corrective Rapists"
Zukiswa Gaca, Khayelitsha, Cape Town. In December 2009, Gaca left a party to buy cigarettes. A man she had just met accompanied her. He led her to a shack where someone was sleeping. "He said he was...
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It's Starting To Look Like Democrats Could Win The House In November
GOP Clown CollegeRepublican congressional candidates received more than a million fewer votes nationally than Democrats last November and the House GOP’s approval rating – according to its own...
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