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Paulson talks, markets tank almost 700 points
America Blog 47 minutes agoMy goodness, another horrible day on Wall Street. Can he just shut his mouth and stay away from a microphone until the grownups arrive? It seems like every time he says something - anything - the market drops hard.
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Three Millennia Of Medical Marijuana, Ctd
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish about an hour agoA historian reader writes: This is from Oxford, Bodleian MS Ashmole 1462, a 12th-century English collection of various medical and herbal texts.
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Deconstructing Mark Halperin, quite possibly the biggest tool in the political punditry
America Blog just under two hours agoJohn wrote a post last week about Mark Halperin's hissy fit over election coverage. The guy who gets paid by Time Magazine to call Obama the "Land of Lincolner" thought media coverage was biased towards Obama.
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The Global Baby Boom
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 3 hours agoCurzon looks at projected changes in world age structure: The emergence of new economic tigers by 2025 could occur where youth bulges mature into “worker bulges.
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The Blogosphere Comes Of Age ...
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 3 hours ago... when this obit appears in the NYT: The blogger Tanta, an influential voice on the mortgage collapse, died Sunday morning in Columbus, Ohio.
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Lobbying and blissful ignorance led Bush to back off regulation
America Blog 3 hours agoThe Republicans continue to spin the credit crisis as the fault of the poor and minorities. Yes, the global credit crisis had nothing to do at all with repackaging complex securities where Wall Street made trillions in a program that would be commonly known as a Ponzi scheme or Amway-like.
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"The Most Deadly Crisis Since The Second World War"
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 3 hours agoAnna Husarska draws welcome attention to the conflict in Congo: ...even at times when fighting is less intense, Congo suffers from the indirect effects of the war.
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Straight African-American Man Who Supports Civil Rights for LGBTQ People
Pams House blend 3 hours agoFem.men.ist Blog - A Must Read.
Here is the description for the awesome Fem-men-ist Blog I discovered recently:
Collaborative brainstorming and revolutionary heartstorming towards conscious community.
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Good As You 4 hours agoImagine waking up to this. For those of us who were pooping our diapers or were completely nonexistent on this July '81 day, it's hard to even comprehend how frightening the early days of the epidemic must've been.
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The Joys Of Modern Retirement
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 4 hours agoSaletan makes an obvious, unsettling point: As the latest Reuters report notes, over the last four decades, U.
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I Drove All Night (only to have my concert cancelled)
Good As You 4 hours agoThis completely unconfirmed report comes from the website CyndiLauperNews.com. Make of it what you will: HUGO CHAVEZ CANCELS LAST TOUR DATE Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez canceled the last date on the "Bring Ya To The Brink World Tour" in Caracas.
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Black Friday
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 4 hours agoA cautionary tale about believing the first sales data.
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Dow closes down 679.95
America Blog 4 hours ago8,149.09Krugman on CNBC just said we're in an economic "free fall." "It looks worse than Japan." He recommended a $600bn stimulus in the first year.
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Crist mass protest: Fairness advocates RSVP for guv's wedding
Good As You 5 hours agoBecause of the Republican governor's support for the state's recently-passed marriage ban, activists with the Impact Florida group have announced plans to peacefully demonstrate at Charlie Crist's own (opposite-sex) wedding: Gay Marriage Proponents Plan to Crash Governor’s Wedding [GaySoFla.
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A Medal Of Freedom For Lynndie England?
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 5 hours agoA reader writes: This response is a little late for the post on the Kristol editorial lionizing Bush administration torturers, but where are the medals for the low-level patsies who took the fall for those brave CIA agents in the.
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Tina Fey on Sarah Palin and sexism
America Blog 5 hours agoThere's a ridiculous article I just read on AP or Reuters (I don't know which, and don't plan to link), talking about how both Hillary and Sarah Palin were both victims of torrid sexism.
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World AIDS Day
Gay Patriot 6 hours agoNever forget those who have been lost to this terrible disease, nor those living every day with it. From the HRC website:
World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
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The World Is Fat
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish 6 hours agoSaletan reviews Barry Popkin's new book: If you're like me, you grew up worrying about people starving in other countries.
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Barack Obama on World AIDS Day
Pams House blend 6 hours agoIt is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, and President-elect Obama delivered taped remarks to the Saddleback Civil Forum on Global Health hosted by Pastor Rick Warren in Washington, D.
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White House Christmas Tree Hails From Tar Heel State
Gay Patriot 6 hours agoWe, the residents of North Carolina, proudly deliver this year’s Christmas Tree to you, the American People.
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