One of the curious controversies I've been half-following on Twitter but haven't been motivated to write about is the case of Van Jones, a leader of the 9/11 "Truther" movement who has served since March as President Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise an …

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Murder's OK, Torture's OK, Treason is OK-- We're Conservatives

A response to "Murder's OK, But No Torture. We're Liberals" by VIEWFROM1776

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About time someone with some credibility is finally publishing that there may be other greater factors in climate science.

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Joe Scarborough falsely claimed that the president's "own OMB director admits" that his budget will "create an unsustainable debt." In fact, OMB director Peter Orszag recently said that deficits at the level estimated by CBO in scoring Obama's proposed budget "would ultimately n …

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A government spokesman is calling for U.S. cable network Fox to apologize for a recent broadcast of derogatory comments mocking the Canadian Forces during an over-the-top, late-night show. ...

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NEW YORK—For the fifth straight year, Jordan McCabe will return home for the holidays and spend the night before Thanksgiving running into every smug and unlikable @!$%# he ever went to high school with, the 26-year-old reported Monday.

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(CNN) -- A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

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All you C.S. majors and web developers: stand up and identify yourselves.

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How to Be a Pretentious Asshat in 3 Easy Steps

Ah, the smell of turpentine in the morning. Smells like... victory. And lattes. And studied snobbery designed to keep out the plebeian riff-raff.

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The Westboro Baptist Church is being told to hand over its financial data as it fights paying a $5 million court judgment. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett in Baltimore Thursday ordered two members of the church to appear at a March 6 hearing.

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Yes, yes. I know it's popular to think that the rhetoric on Newsvine sucks.

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As you look at these pictures and captions think about people on newsvine who fit these descriptions.

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Oh. My. God. If you thought the "Hey, stop being so down on us nice white people for destroying those savage Native Americans!" article was bad, do not read this piece if you are having a bad day.

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Top White House political adviser Karl Rove, who masterminded President George W. Bush's political campaigns in 2000 and 2004, said in an interview published Monday that he will resign at the end of this month.

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There's a term in the industry. It's called "a**holing your way out of the business." It basically means that regardless of your bankability, it is still possible to be such a horror to work with you that people would prefer not to.

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AHA - A Group for the Rest of Us - or "The 12 Steps of Christmas"

It all started on a dark and stormy night. Wait, that's not it. The weather was fine when we started out. My 16-year old daughter was in the front of the car being incredibly mouthy, - or perfectly 16, for that fact. She had gotten on my last frayed nerve.

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Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke visited Ukraine's largest university last week to give a stump speech on what he calls "radical Jewish extremists" — his phrase for the Israeli and American government.

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Frankly, this opinion piece isn't much, but the parallel between Lieberman and Ahmadinejad is striking.

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Pentagon bills injured Iraq vet $700 for his ruined body armor

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