Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut It: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change

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McNamara in Context

Errol Morris writes of Robert McNamara. Morris is the creator of the 2003 "The Fog of War"

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After U.S. Strikes, Afghans Describe 'Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies'

Rage spreads in Afghanistan after a U.S. bombing kills some 130 people; Meanwhile the Pentagon spins a cover-up and Obama readies more troops.

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Five U.S. Soldiers' Deaths Came at Hands of Comrade, Military Says

BAGHDAD, May 11 -- An American soldier opened fire on comrades Monday on a large military base in Baghdad, killing five, the U.S. military said.

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Islam Times - One forth of the worlds inmates in America

One forth of the world's inmates in America American senator Jim Webb (Virginia) announced that one fourth of the world's inmates are in America.

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Teenage Birthrate Increases For Second Consecutive Year

The rate at which teenage girls in the United States are having babies has risen for a second year in a row, government statistics show, putting one of the nation's most successful social and public health campaigns in jeopardy.

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Israel's Dirty Secrets in Gaza: It Was Pure Murder

Army veterans reveal how they gunned down innocent Palestinian families and destroyed homes and farms.

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Meet Derek the Chastity Clown - paid for by your tax dollars

The abstinence education clowns are now hiring actual clowns to teach sex education to middle schoolers - and they're using your tax dollars to do it! Of course their idea of "sex education" is the same tired misinformation religious fundies have been pushing since Reverend Ted  …

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Bush is Broken, Frightened, And Plagued By Voices

Psychiatrist Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says Bush's final speech revealed a fragile man still fighting imaginary enemies to battle his inner demons.

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Fermilab Director: Unexplained Noise may show that the Universe is a Hologram

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation.

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Why we yawn: To cool our brains

If your head is overheated, there's a good chance you'll yawn soon, according to a new study that found the primary purpose of yawning is to control brain temperature.

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American Thinker: Obama's Abortion Socialism

If FOCA is passed, all current restrictions on abortions will be eliminated.

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Amoebas turn to family during tough times

When times are tough, many of us turn to family and develop closer ties. So, too, with amoebas.

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Palin: 'I Don't Know' If Abortion Clinic Bombers Are Terrorists

Palin resisted the suggestion that if Ayers was a "domestic terrorist" -- a standard line in her campaign addresses -- then so were conservative religious activists who bombed abortion clinics. "I don't know if you're going to use the word 'terrorist' there," she said.

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Another Dragging Death in Texas Raises Tensions

In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder.

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Former McCain Supporter: McCain Is "Unleashing the Monster of American Prejudice"

Frank Schaeffer, a life-long Republican and from a renowned evangelical family, comes out against John McCain (whom he supported in 2000) and the hatred his campaign is generating.

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An urban farmer is rewarded for his dream

Will Allen wins a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation for his non-profit, Growing Power. His organization helps to fill "food deserts" in American cities, where access to organic, healthy food is limited.

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Code Pink seeks fast exit for Bush

The women of Code Pink have taken up fasting as they campaign for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

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What's left to dream, after all?

"Super Tuesday was, according to one radio commentator, 'the Super Bowl of politics.' Now that we've crested the mountaintop, transcended race, trounced gender stereotypes and broken through the old glass ceiling, I guess there's nothing left to do. Yawn.

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Long 'Roe' to Hoe

Reproductive rights are in a sorry state in the United States. Not only should abortion remain safe and legal, but we need to focus on prevention services as well.

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Blackwater's Business

Blackwater has not lost out in any way after the scandals in Iraq. They are changing their name to Blackwater Worldwide, but they are still up to the same old tricks.

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Ladies of the French Resistance

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This is what your brain looks like on faith

Sam Harris is best known for his barn-burning 2004 attack on religion, The End of Faith, which spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-seller List. The book's sequel, Letter to a Christian Nation also came out in editions totalling hundreds of thousands.

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Sealed Off by Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary

GAZA CITY -- The batteries are the size of a button on a man's shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City.

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