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08 August 2011
The 'green' thing....
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Denny Roberge
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green...
28 July 2011
If you declare bankruptcy, will everything be OK in a few days, weeks?
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Michael Collins
The crazies in the United States House of Representatives would have you believe it were so. They say fix that budget before we'll raise the debt ceiling. If we don't get our fix, they announce, there's no deal. We'll just default...
28 July 2011
Blaming the Muslims
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Robert Koehler
“I saw people being shot. I tried to sit as quietly as possible. I was hiding behind some stones. I saw him once, just 20, 30 meters away from me. I thought ‘I’m terrified for my life,’” the young survivor said to a Reuters reporter. “I...
25 July 2011
If Bush or Giuliani had been Stoltenberg
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David Swanson
The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact. Nonetheless, it's tempting to wonder how many people would still be alive today if...
21 July 2011
Ground your warplanes, save the horn of Africa
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Ramzy Baroud
"When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless." Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless' people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the pain of...
20 July 2011
Balance the budget on the backs of billionaires
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David Swanson
The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don't need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one on earth. We don't need to fund health insurance corporations instead of...

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