Hail the homer! Ball flies, woes seem to go away

Memo to Jake Peavy, or whoever starts July 3 for the San Diego Padres: Don't throw a first-pitch fastball to Manny Ramirez.

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Spate of shark attacks in Australia rattles nerves

A recent string of shark attacks across Australia has rattled swimmers' nerves, but experts say fear not — it's (relatively) safe to go in the water.

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Quakes shake loose fears about Yellowstone volcano

Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to explode!

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More than 50 girls succumb to `hysteria'

More than 50 school children underwent hospital treatment Friday after developing what educators called mass hysteria, marked by fainting and screaming.

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If "achoo!" makes you jumpy these days, you're not alone. The swine flu pandemic has made people much more reactive when they hear or see someone sneeze, according to a new study.

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On the House floor Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that the health insurance reform package currently being debated by Congress would set up "sex clinics" in schools where students "taken away" to have abortions.

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To those of us in the reality based community, watching the tea-baggers, death panelist propagators, birthers and assorted other whackjobs conjure up government fascism out of whole cloth, even as they unwittingly defend the unbridled fascistic behavior of corporations, defies lo …

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Scott Ritter Debunks The Iran Hysteria in The American Media While Ariana Huffington Gets the Vapors

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While some British Nationalist Party policies seem extreme to many, they seem to have pinpointed one facet of near-term fallout from populist policies. While expressed with some of the unqualified hyperbole characteristic of political rhetoric, their objection to premature …

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However much the czars may drive the policymaking process at the White House, they cannot -- despite their grandiose (and frankly ridiculous) appellation -- determine what that policy will be.

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The truth is that a vast majority of Americans are fully on board with a post-racial America. The only problem is that conservatives were the only ones to begin treating it as a reality.

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Protest Everything Obama Says Or Does!

I certainly expected some policy disagreements after President Obama's inauguration, but I didn't expect this: complete and utter hysteria over absolutely everything having to do with the President; argument for the sake of inciting fear and hatred; lies and nonsense intended to  …

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Let's make one thing clear right up front: There are no czars. None. For some weird reason going back all the way to FDR, we have chosen -- entirely randomly -- to call some executive branch officials czars while not calling others in exactly the same positions by that title.

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There's been some hysteria about the administration's new estimate that the cumulative deficit will be $9 trillion over the next decade. Don't get me wrong: this is bad. But it's being treated as an inconceivable sum, far beyond anything that could possibly be handled.

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Conservatives are calling it their August Revolt, a surprising upsurge of activism against President Obama's proposed health care overhaul.

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On Aug. 4, President Barack Obama celebrated the anniversary of his birth, an event that occurred 48 years ago in the state of Hawaii. This is an indisputable fact, as sane critics on the right, such as the editors of the National Review and even Patrick Buchanan, acknowledge.

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According to a CNN report, the military will assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant swine flu outbreak in the U.S.

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Sex hysteria is growing in USA. We have pariahs class of subpeople, just like Germany in 1933.

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Oklahomans should prepare for the swine flu epidemic to worsen by stocking up on food, water and medicines, a state Health Department spokeswoman said.

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Swine flu! World Health Organization at alert level 4! Markets rocked by sell-offs! Howie Mandel was right! Never shake hands! Bathe in Purell! See if you can borrow a face mask from Michael Jackson! Or hold your breath whenever you are near a ham sandwich! Armies of pigs in unif …

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Look folks, it's still allergy season, so if you've got the sniffles, you're more likely to need another Claritin (or a little less nose candy - I'm looking at you, Biden offspring) than to be quarantined for fear of the suddenly terrifying Swine Flu.

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The latest indictment of the Demon Internet comes in the form of the so-called "Craigslist Killer" who allegedly trolled the online community's adult-services listings to find his victims.

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally entitled "A Costly Mistake?" When the Associated Press decided a decade ago to sell its news content to online portals, it may have hastened the decline of the daily newspapers that own the wire service," but that title has been remixed.

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"(March 9) - A skeleton excavated from a 16th century Venetian grave site may be the earliest example discovered of a body being treated at the time of its burial as a vampire."

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Something strange is going on across the Internet. Some Norton AntiVirus users are receiving pop-up messages ALERTing them about an application called PIFTS.exe that is trying to connect to a server.

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There is a time for hysteria, and a time when cooler heads should prevail. This is the time for hysteria.

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"A discriminatory, over-and-above hatred, inexplicable in its hysteria and virulence whatever justification is adduced for it; an unreasoning, deranged and as far as I can see irreversible revulsion that is poisoning everything we are supposed to believe in here – the free exch …

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n 1973, the journalist Flora Rhea Schreiber collaborated with Cornelia Wilbur, a Manhattan psychiatrist, in writing Sybil, the story of a young woman who, while under Wilbur's care, developed sixteen "personalities." In each distinct "alter"— alternative personality …

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