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• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. Canada, Toronto Star: “Organ Donations Lag” Hey, let’s get to work killing some more people. UK, The Independent: “Could This Be The House Where Jesus Lived” Does it have a halo over the top? South ...
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• Are Immigrants A Risk Factor?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  HSB Skare asked housing associations to assist their process in identifying which factors create a high risk in the health and safety environment of various of their properties. They simply wanted to get a sense of factors which might serve to reduce the health of its tenants. Among the 39 items on the list that ...
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• UK Used Water Torture In Ireland

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and George Bush can heave a sigh of relief now that news has come of use of waterboarding by British forces in Ireland during the 1970s. It proves the dynamic trio were simply using the same techniques of interrogation as used by British police against the Irish. Liam Holden in 1973 was ...
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• This Story Nothing To Sneeze At!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  There will be no sneezing for two young men during the coming fifty years that they will spend in jail for kidnapping a young girl whose family rejected the marriage proposal of one of the men. Being good Pakistani young men, being proud Muslims, they thought a man had every right to kidnap a girl and cut off her ...
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• Wrong Training For Wrong War?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  President Barack Obama has made eloquent speeches about the need to fight in Afghanistan and made clear to the American people he was sending troops to that nation in order to wipe put the enemy and create conditions for peace. Republican congressmen are adamant in support of more troops and more troops and regard ...
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• Iranian Opposition Leader Attacked

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 146
  If there is one thing to be said about President Ahmadinejad of Iran is his inability to grasp the need to lay low during certain moments in life. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri died over the weekend of illness and many people representing a cross section of Iran attended his funeral. On the way home, ...
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• What Book Is Hugo Chávez Reading?

  
  ChelseaGreen — Authority: 149
  By Makenna GoodmanIt’s four days before Christmas. If you’re like the other snowed-in 40-something percent of consumers this year, you’re probably way behind on gifts. If so, you may want to give the (last-minute) gift of…the book that Hugo Chávez is reading.Let me back up a minute. When browsing for books, ...
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• What Book Is Hugo Chávez Reading?

  
  ChelseaGreen — Authority: 149
  By Makenna GoodmanIt’s four days before Christmas. If you’re like the other snowed-in 40-something percent of consumers this year, you’re probably way behind on gifts. If so, you may want to give the (last-minute) gift of…the book that Hugo Chávez is reading.Let me back up a minute. When browsing for books, ...
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• 30 Minutes to Wapner -The Real Rain Man Has Died

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  RIP I had no idea in real life he was physically disabled. Ann Althouse has the story at "I have so many things in me that you cant even guess them all." — Kim Peek.
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• Democrats Not Concerned About Blacks and Hispanics In Nursing Homes? More Health Care Bill Monkeyshines?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  HOPE AND CHANGE!!!! What a Catholic Social Justice Friendly bill this is. How come I have a idea this was put in to protect certain folks that might own certain nursing homes from liability. Serious Racial Discrimination in Obamacare [Peter Kirsanow ] As Hans von Spakovsky notes, the U.S. Commission on ...
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• Can Liberal Catholics Who The Support Health Care Bill Do Two Things!!

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  Please Pretty Please. First say no to abortion in the health care bill. Your progressive pro-choice friends will cave on this at the end. Do you actually think they will not!! After coming this close? Plus the public supports that. Second can we please get rid of the freakin Death Panels. Yes I said Death Panels AKA ...
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• Motivations for Giving

  
  Tutor Mentor Connection — Authority: 122
  I encourage you to read this article, titled Selfish Giving: Does It Count If You Get In Return? . Its from a NPR report. Then read this article about Ayn Rands Virtue of Selfishness philosophy. Then read the articles on this blog about poverty, workforce development and leadership (see tags at left). Unless ...
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• George Weigel Talks Health Care Reform

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  George Weigel is talking about Health Care Reform from a "Conservative" Catholic Social Justice view it appears. Aggie Catholics has it at Another Approach to Health Care Reform . I agree with a lot of that except his small pitch for TORT Reform. Conservatives and Republicans seem to take it as gospel that ...
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• Resolutions, Not Hopes

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 640
  I resolve to do everything in my ability, while preserving my power to continue in future years, to reverse the destruction of the environment, the proliferation of weapons and wars, and the concentration of wealth. I resolve neither to panic nor to behave as if we have a moment to lose. I resolve neither to be ...
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• Flares in the Political Dark

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 640
  The winter solstice of 2009 arrived as a grim metaphor for the current politics of healthcare, war and a lot more. "In a dark time," wrote the poet Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see." After a year of escalation in Afghanistan, solicitude toward Wall Street and the incredible shrinking healthcare reform, we ...
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• Is It Ok To Steal From Wal Mart If You Have Too?

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 150
  A British Anglican Priest has caused a stir : Poor people who are desperate for cash have been advised to go forth and shoplift from major stores - by an Anglican priest. The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution. He told ...
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• Our Top 10 Most Popular Humane Education Activities for 2009

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 130
  Humane education activities and lesson plans are just one of the perks we provide in our Resource Center . We now have more than 75 humane education activities available for free download, and we add new ones often. Here are our 10 most downloaded activities as of the end of 2009 : The Worlds Most Powerful ...
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• What the World Needs Now… Is a Morale Boost

  
  ChelseaGreen — Authority: 149
  Depressed? Demoralized? Maybe it’s not you. Maybe it’s society.There’s an alienation epidemic, and modern psychiatry doesn’t seem to have much to offer beyond brain-chemistry-”correcting” medication. How do we fix this?From the Portland Press-Herald:I can’t tell you how many times I have mentioned to ...
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• What the World Needs Now… Is a Morale Boost

  
  ChelseaGreen — Authority: 149
  Depressed? Demoralized? Maybe it’s not you. Maybe it’s society.There’s an alienation epidemic, and modern psychiatry doesn’t seem to have much to offer beyond brain-chemistry-”correcting” medication. How do we fix this?From the Portland Press-Herald:I can’t tell you how many times I have mentioned to ...
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• History Lost & Found

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 137
  The ominous entrance sign (” Arbeit Macht Frei ” = “Work will set you free”) to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz has been recovered by police: The metal sign had been cut into three parts, apparently to make it easier to transport. The arrest late Sunday night came after more than 100 tips, said ...
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