A case the Obama administration deserves to lose - Salon


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A case the Obama administration deserves to lose
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Absurdly or not, conservatives are likely to paint the whole episode as the Democrats' version of the Terri Schiavo debacle -- an arrogant federal overreach ...

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The real tragedy of a "Real Housewife" - Salon


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The real tragedy of a "Real Housewife"
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Are the Giudices just a pair of selfish, shortsighted Jersey knuckleheads who got what was coming, or a deeply deluded duo who need an intervention? ...

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Tonight's TV: Jennifer Love Hewitt Is Up To No Good At That Massage Parlor - NPR (blog)

Tonight's TV: Jennifer Love Hewitt Is Up To No Good At That Massage Parlor
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At 8:00 pm, VH1 has an Usher-themed episode of Behind The Music, while ABC has another episode of The Bachelorette, so you have your choice ...

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When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist - Washington Post (blog)

When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist
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Ezra's handling of this entire episode is a revealing case study in passive-aggressive behavior. Why won't Tucker Carlson release all the emails? ...

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Modest weight loss may curb urine leakage - Reuters India

Modest weight loss may curb urine leakage
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A significant reduction was defined as a decline of at least 70 percent in the number of incontinence episodes a woman had each week. ...

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What went wrong with stimulus - Washington Post (blog)

What went wrong with stimulus
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Ten percent unemployment and a terrible recession ended up discrediting the people trying to do more for the economy, as their previous intervention was ...

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Srebrenica 15 Years After: The Politicization of "Genocide" - Monthly Review

Srebrenica 15 Years After: The Politicization of "Genocide"
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It helped justify intensified military intervention by the United States and NATO, including eventually NATO's Kosovo-Serbia bombing war of March-June 1999, ...

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Mel Gibson and the Ugly Face of Addiction - Newsweek

Mel Gibson and the Ugly Face of Addiction
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I guess people don't watch a lot of Intervention, the A&E reality show that follows an addict and his family's attempt to get him (or her) sober. ...

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This Day In History

Maximilien Robespierre: Reign of Terror leader was guillotined in Paris during the French Revolution (1794)

Quote of the day

"I love the irony — I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap."...

by Alan Hale