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Shock Jocks, Hate Speech and an O'Reilly Ambush

Rory O'Connor | Posted August 21, 2008 | Media

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Brent Bozell, Fox News, Hate Speech, Media Research Council, Newsday, Shock Jocks

After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well.

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Why is Ohio Retarded but Connecticut Isn't?

Kim Stagliano | Posted August 21, 2008 | Living

Read More: Autism, Ben Stiller, Civil Rights, Farrelly Brothers, Health, Mental Retardation, Tropic Thunder

You've probably heard of the uproar over the use of the word "retard" in the new Ben Stiller movie, Tropic Thunder. It has practically whitewashed the fact that Robert Downey Jr.'s character performs in blackface. No small feat.

As a writer, and the mother of three girls with autism,...

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Why Twinkies Destroy Rainforests and Cook the Planet

Michael Brune | Posted August 21, 2008 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Fast Food, Food, Indigenous Rights, Palm Oil, Rainforests, Sustainable Food

In the end, climate change made us quit.

On most days, we're like any other card-carrying, food-conscious environmentalists. My wife and I shop at our local natural grocery store, dutifully selecting locally grown, organic produce. We planted fruit trees a few years ago, our summer vegetable garden is thriving, and...

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Gold Diggers: Why Only One Medal Matters to the Chinese

LiLi Tan | Posted August 21, 2008 | Media

Read More: Beijing Olympics, China Golds, Gold Medals, Olympics

When I first arrived in Beijing, the only gold-digger stories I'd heard of were about Chinese girls who'd prick condoms with safety pins before they'd bed expats. Now, all that reaches my ears is talk of jin pai (gold medals). At events, Chinese fans only explode into applause when gold-medal...

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New Government Policy Helps Big Businesses Hide in Small Business Database

Lloyd Chapman | Posted August 21, 2008 | Business

Read More: Abuse, Bush Administration, Ccr; Central Contractors Registration, Contracting, Economy, Fraud, Loopholes, Procurement, Small Business, Small Business Administration

A new Bush Administration policy will make it easier for large businesses to land government small business contracts by misrepresenting themselves as small businesses in government supplier databases. Under the new policy, firms will no longer be required to list their annual revenue or number of employees on the federal...

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The Purpose Driven Cheat

Mary Lyon | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, John McCain Rick Warren, Rick Warren, Rick Warren And Faith Forum

It's amazing how much mud is flying in this presidential contest - and not just that which is being flung nonstop at Barack Obama. Mudslinging is common during political campaigns, but sometimes that mud isn't exactly a guided missile. There are moments when it's splattered about with such zeal that...

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Roy Sekoff with Dan Abrams: Will Obama Text "It's HRC as VP" and Is Lieberman McCain's Biker Boyfriend?

Huff TV | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Dan Abrams, Dan Abrams Verdict, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Vice President, John McCain, Roy Sekoff

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Nigga, Please

Hermene Hartman | Posted August 21, 2008 | Style

Read More: Blacks, Dialogue, Jesse Jackson, Multiculturalism, Race, Racism, Relationships, The N Word

The word nigger is controversial.

It may be the most controversial word in the American language. It needs clarity. It is a word spoken with a forked tongue, and it speaks volumes when you consider the tonality and emphasis placed on it when used.

Its...

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Terminally Ill Economy

Grant Cardone | Posted August 21, 2008 | Business

Read More: 2008 Recession, Bankruptcies, Credit Card Debt, Debt, Economy, Foreclosures, Grant Cardone, Olympics, Selling, Success

Treat the current economic climate as you would a terminal disease! If you were told you had a terminal disease what would you do? I expect most of you would spend your last dollars in hopes of finding a cure! You would probably travel to every corner of the...

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The Shmegege Vote: 2008

Susan Isaacs | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Jewish Vote, Jewish Voters, Obama Jewish Vote, Obama Jewish Voters

shmegege [shmeh∙geh'∙geh], noun: Yiddish word meaning buffoon, idiot, ignoramus

A whispering campaign might be better because that would connote shame, or at least discomfort. Instead, anti-Obama e-mails -- by Jews, for Jews -- continue to make the rounds:

Don't believe the Christian business because he really is a Muslim;

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Green Cell Phone Evolution

Josie Garthwaite | Posted August 21, 2008 | Green

Read More: Bioplastics, Cell Phones, E-Waste, Ecophone, Environment, Green Living, Mobile Phones, Samsung, Technology

Predictions of "revolution" in the mobile tech world come at a dizzying pace these days. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year that innovative applications for mobile devices would bring the "recreation of the Internet." And when Apple exec...

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Rep. Chris Smith Wants to Criminalize the Birth Control Pill (Seriously...)

Joshua Zeitz | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election And Abortion, Abortion, Abortion Laws, Abortion Rights, Birth Control, Birth Control Pill, Josh Zeitz. Chris Smith, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Life, Pro-Lifers

I'm Josh Zeitz, the Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey's Fourth District. I want to talk to you about my strong support for reproductive rights, but first I want to tell you about the person I'm running against.

My opponent, Rep. Chris Smith, is the longtime chairman of...

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Who's Your Economic Daddy?

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted August 21, 2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Policy, Economy, Innovation, John McCain Economic Policy, Joseph Schumpeter, Keynesian Economics, Obama Economic Policy, R&D, Robert Rubin, Rubinomics, Supply-Side Economics, Technology

For most people, debating economic doctrines is a pastime best left to the Ph.D. economists working in government, think tanks and universities. Yet economic doctrines are at the heart of the economic policies being debated right now in the presidential campaign, in the halls of Congress, and in the current...

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Predator and Prey

Robert Koehler | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Mccain, Russia Georgia War

Bad bear!

Within the false outrage coursing through much of mainstream politics and the media, there is a grudging reverence for the brutality of the latest world crisis, if evinced only in the satisfaction that America has found its next enemy. Cold War sentiments stir in their hibernation, the...

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Confidential to Everybody in Business: We Need to Whip The Web Before It Whips Us

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted August 21, 2008 | Business

Read More: Entertainment Business, Internet Business, Media Business, Tech, Web 2.0

I've always had a crush on the internet. Ever since I first laid eyes on its complex, complicated character and unique ability to do all things at once, it was love. No question. Its capacity, abilities, and the fact that it's not committed to any one device or type of...

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Try a Little Truthfulness

Paula Gordon | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Belief Systems, Believers, Fundamentalists, James Carse, Religion, Right Wing, Truth, Truthfulness, Wrong Wing

Who's fueling America's Wrong Wing? We are. The bullies are using us, distracting us from creating genuine possibilities. Evil is real. It silences us or forces us into passivity. It requires and feeds upon our reactive opposition. The alternative is to laugh at evil-doers' lies and crude authoritarianism. Choose to...

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What You DON'T Know About the U.S./Mexico Border Fence

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Alien, Border Fence, BORDER ISSUES, Border Wall, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, Wall On Mexico Border

Putting a big fence between Mexico and the southern border of the United States to stop illegal immigration (and ideally put a dent in terrorist movements) makes sense to a lot of people -- and a lot of politicians. Both Obama and McCain voted...

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The Writers Workbench: Portable Sound

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted August 21, 2008 | Entertainment

Most MP3 players today provide very good sound, but without built-in speakers. As a result, some form of headphone or external sound source is needed. Though there are high-quality options for listening at home, the core of an MP3 player is its portability - so what choices are available for...

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Jerome Corsi's Long Strange, Trip

Max Blumenthal | Posted August 21, 2008 |

Read More: 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Conspiracy, Corsi, Islam, John McCain, Race, Racial Politics, Republicans, Swiftboating

These are good times for Jerome Corsi. Already notorious for his factually challenged book-length takedown of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, "Unfit For Command," the sixty-one year old Corsi has another hit on his hands. His new book, "Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" has made...

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

Paul Slansky | Posted August 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Dnc

"The McCain campaign continues to level dishonest attacks on Barack Obama's integrity and patriotism," [foreign policy adviser Susan] Rice said, adding that Americans were tired of "Karl Rove's say anything, do anything politics." Rice also accused McCain of trying to "mislead the American people in order to obscure his own...

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