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"tag:salon"
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Nader refers to Obama as Uncle Tom
During a radio interview on Election Day, independent candidate Ralph Nader said of Barack Obama, "His choice, basically, is whether he's going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations." From Nader refers ... |
Nov 5, 2008 |
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Adam Smith:Pinko
Adam Smith was a pinko. So says Tom the Dancing Bug |
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Palin rocks the Internet
While many of those in the big-league media are chronicling Sarah Palin's slide, especially following her disastrous interview with CBS' Katie Couric, the Internet continues to be the best source for Palin-related Internet oddities. From Palin rocks ... |
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Paying for sterilization
Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo announced on Tuesday that he is "studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied." Seriously. Because he's worried that "people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly ... |
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare
Eleven studies now show that the MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism (the most recent just came out). Six have shown that thimerosal doesn't cause autism; three have shown thimerosal doesn't cause neurological problems. Studies showing the opposite, like ... |
Sep 21, 2008 |
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Paint your roof white, save the planet
According to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory scientists, there's an astonishingly low-tech solution that may help to cool the planet and reverse global warming. Paint your roof white. From Paint your roof white, save the planet - Machinist ... |
Sep 14, 2008 |
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Rice: Military power is not the way to deal in the 21st century
Just during the time Rice has served in the Bush administration, we bombed, invaded and occupied Afghanistan; did the same to Iraq; repeatedly bombed Somalia, killing all sorts of civilians; fed bombs to Israel as they invaded and bombed Lebanon; top ... |
Aug 19, 2008 |
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New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right
That story begins during the final weeks of 2003, when everyone in the White House was suffering severe embarrassment over both the origins and the consequences of the invasion of Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. No evidence ... |
Aug 12, 2008 |
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Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater
If John McCain is running for George W. Bush's third presidential term, as Democrats have suggested, Barack Obama is campaigning for John F. Kennedy's second term. Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater | Salon Normally this is the type of political ... |
May 21, 2008 |
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Obama, get ready for the Clinton rules
And as Barack Obama should have learned during the debateâs first 45 minutes, if not before, the same fuzzy but obsessive focus on "character" that plagues Bill and Hillary Clinton will be turned on him with equal or greater ferocity by those who once ... |
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Everything you know about absinthe is wrong
Perhaps you already have your own absinthe story. You drank it in New Orleans one foggy night, too full of fumes to remember much aside from the cloudy green swirl of the drink as water drip-dropped into the glass. You smuggled a cheap bottle back from ... |
Dec 21, 2007 |
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Newt is a Theodore Roosevelt Republican?
I don't know of anybody who argues for unregulated free enterprise. I'm a Theodore Roosevelt Republican. I like the fact that the government requires that I have clean water to drink no matter what restaurant I walk into anywhere in America. From Salon ... |
Nov 13, 2007 |
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Religious right may blackball Giuliani
A powerful group of conservative Christian leaders decided Saturday at a private meeting in Salt Lake City to consider supporting a third-party candidate for president if a pro-choice nominee like Rudy Giuliani wins the Republican nomination. From ... |
Sep 30, 2007 |
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Glenn Greenwald on imperial ideology
It may very well serve our "national interests" to start a war because we want to control someone else's resources, or because we think it would be good if they had a different government, or because we want the world to fear us, or because we want to ... |
Aug 20, 2007 |
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the secret plan?
This secret plan makes sense in a weird kinda way. |
Aug 19, 2007 |
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The collapse of Karl Rove
A month ago, a friend who has spent his entire career working for the Republican House leadership pulled up beside me at the intersection of Seventh and Pennsylvania in Washington. A House institutionalist, and a fiercely partisan secular Republican, he ... |
Aug 17, 2007 |
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The three stooges
Omertà (or a code of silence) has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together. Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law. Protecting higher-ups is patriotism. Stonewalling is idealism. Telling ... |
Aug 2, 2007 |
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We are meant to be here
What Davies proposes is truly mind-bending. Drawing on the bizarre principles of quantum mechanics, he suggests that human beings -- through the sheer act of observation -- may have helped shape the laws of physics billions of years ago. What's more, he ... |
Jul 5, 2007 |
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Olbermann: Even Richard Nixon knew it was time to resign
Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers. Did so even before the appeals process was complete. Did so without as much ... |
Jul 3, 2007 |
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real conservative
The great fraud being perpetrated in our political discourse is the concerted attempt by movement conservatives, now that the Bush presidency lay irreversibly in ruins, to repudiate George Bush by claiming that he is not, and never has been, a "real ... |
Jun 6, 2007 |