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Poll: Huge Racial, Partisan Divide Over Zimmerman Trial
New findings from the Pew Research Center released today lays bare the huge divide along racial and partisan lines in the public’s reaction to the outcome of the Zimmerman trial: The public is divided...
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A Royal Fetishization
“Unquestionably the person that can get lowest down in cringing before royalty and nobility, and can get most satisfaction out of crawling on his belly before them, is an American. Not all Americans,...
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Porn On Demand
David Cameron picked the perfect time — while everyone was fixated on a certain baby — to unveil a really weird, sweeping piece of legislation throughout Britain where citizens will be unable to access...
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Latest Conservative Plan To Derail Obamacare The Most Sinister Yet
The word contemptible comes to mind: With the Obama administration poised for a huge public education campaign on healthcare reform, Republicans and their allies are mobilizing a counter-offensive...
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Quote For The Day: A New Pope, A New Message
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Pope Francis, while openly answering questions posed to him by journalists on Monday, during a flight back to the...
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Best Onion Headline Of The Day
As always, the folks over at the Onion get it right: Vatican Quickly Performs Damage Control On Pope’s Tolerant Remarks …a visibly nervous Vatican spokesman told reporters, adding that the Holy Father...
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Jeffrey Toobin, Glenn Greenwald Debate Bradley Manning Verdict, Government...
CNN and New Yorker legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald had a spirited debate Tuesday night on the verdict reached in the Bradley Manning trial, and government leaks in...
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Hawaii to Offer Its Homeless Population One-Way Tickets Back to the Mainland
Hawaii is known for clichéd luaus, world renowned beaches, unoriginal weddings, picturesque landscapes, and also for having the highest rate of homelessness in the country. Want to guess which one of...
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Some Russian Perspective for the American LGBT Community
It’s fair to say we’ve made some huge strides in this country in how we view and treat the LGBT community, and while there’s still work to be done, it’s been getting better every day. The same can’t be...
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Liberal Saudi Arabian Blogger Sentenced To 7 years, 600 Lashes for...
This story is almost too outrageous and infuriating to report: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for...
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Newsweek Is Dead; Plenty Of Blame To Go Around
We really learned two things from the New York Times article on the death of the once lauded magazine Newsweek and the leadership of its editor-in-chief, Tina Brown. Newsweek was always going to fail...
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Young Americans Aren’t Really Into Beer Anymore
Gallup finds that among the youngest Americans, beer preference is collapsing at an alarming rate: Young adult drinkers’ alcoholic beverage preferences have changed dramatically over the past two...
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Rolling Stone Founder Promotes 22 Year-Old Son To Run Website
After a long, storied career as a college student, 22 year old Gus Wenner — son of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner — has been promoted to head up all operations at RollingStone.com. Like nepotism?...
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So You Want To Live Forever? Americans Say No.
Pew Research on Tuesday released a really eye-opening survey that posed to Americans this question: would you — with the help of life-extending science and medicine — prefer to live until 120 or more,...
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Quote For The Day: Stephen Fry Calls For Olympic Boycott
I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler’s anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian “correctively”...
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“Scoop, if true”: How The New York Post Gave Up On Journalism Altogether
The New York Post is a groundbreaking news organization. Some magazines and newspapers waste time by vetting sources, checking facts, reporting on things that exist — you get the idea. Not the Post....
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No Name #1: Celebrating The Music Of Elliott Smith
I had the luck and pleasure to attend the wonderful tribute show organized by Elliott Smith’s sister in Los Angeles this past Tuesday, where his dearest friends and collaborators — including the great...
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Why, Yes, It’s a Slow News Day, Thank You For Asking
NYC finds 96 percent of luggage scales accurate Whew, thanks WSJ. I can die now.
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Does Cable News Polarize American Politics, Attitudes? Probably Not
It’s probably always been too simple of an answer to say that partisan media is to blame for what is undoubtedly an ideologically polarized country. If you’re a regular viewer of Sean Hannity, you’re...
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Chart(s) Of The Day: Peace On The Horizon?
No, we aren’t going to live in a world without war, but the chart above and the corresponding work attributed to it show that as a global society, we’re devoting a smaller percentage of manpower and...
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