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George Carlin ~ The American Dream
"You have to be asleep to believe it." A short excerpt from the video "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005).
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Instead of elections, let’s use lotteries
It is easy to feel that what you do won’t make any difference. Recycle that can, bike or drive, buy from this company not that one, march in the streets against the factory closing or the looming war. It’s never enough: the forces are large and anonymous, and there aren’t enough of us. Or there are too many of us. Vote, petition, protest. It can all feel pointless: a kind of precious dancing around, keeping a low causal profile, with an eye on some imaginary Future Judgment.
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BUSTED: Paul Krugman removed 20 years of data from a chart to show a correlation that wasn't really there
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PowerPoint should be banned. This PowerPoint presentation explains why.
Make these slides the last ones you ever read.
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California Legislature Moves Forward With Assisted Suicide Bill
California lawmakers on Thursday revived a bill that would allow physician
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FBI is operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities
The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the US carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology – all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, the Associated Press has learned.
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The EU country where drugs are decriminalised – and hardly anyone dies of an overdose
Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course. But now getting caught with them meant a small fine and maybe a referral to a treatment program — not jail time and a criminal record.
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Will TPP Kill the Post Office?
Will TPP enable the privatizers to declare things like our beloved U.S. Postal Service, schools and roads to be
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As of Tomorrow, Oregonians Can Legally Smoke Pot
Obtaining it is another story.
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Ten Commandments monument must be removed from grounds of state Capitol, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday
The Ten Commandments monument must be removed from the grounds of the state Capitol, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a 7-2 opinion the Supreme Court found the placement of the monument on the grounds of the state Capitol violate Article 2, Section 5, of the Oklahoma Constitution which prohibits the use of public money or property to directly or indirectly benefit a “church denomination or system of religion.” The ruling overturned a decision by Oklahoma County District Judge Thomas Prince.
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Sanders: US campaign finance 'a national disgrace'
Sanders supports a constitutional amendment to undo the 2010 Citizens United decision.
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Bernie Sanders wants to 'move us to the middle' on guns
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is running to Hillary Clinton's left on nearly every other issue
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How to Disrupt the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Ever since the Supreme Court’s shameful Citizens United decision, big corporations have been funneling large amounts of cash into American politics, often secretly. Bad enough. But when big government contractors do the funneling, American taxpayers foot the bill twice over: We pay their lobbying and campaign expenses. And when those efforts nab another contract, we pay for stuff we often don’t need. This is especially true for defense contractors – the biggest federal contractors of all.
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The Quantum Theory of Presidential Politics
Our 44th president wanted to be No Drama Obama. But that hasn't stopped us from turning our experience of him into a story -- a melodrama -- whose future keeps changing its past, whose ending we don't know and whose reality will continuously be remade until, inevitably, no one who's around now will be left to find out what happens next.
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U.S. Government is Still Funding Dubious Abstinence-Only Sex Education Program
Independent studies have shown time and again that abstinence-only education is not effective in preventing pregnancies or sexually-transmitted diseases. Programs such as CTB’s often perpetuate dangerous gender stereotypes, in one instance saying: “‘Occasional suggestions and assistance’ from women ‘may be alright, but too much of it will lessen a man’s confidence or even turn him away from his princess.’”
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FBI chief tells Senate committee we’re doomed without crypto backdoors
James Comey, the director of the FBI, told a Senate committee Wednesday that the government should have the right to lawfully access any device or electronic form of communication with a lawful court order, even it is encrypted.
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Scott Walker set to revive abortion hard line on eve of presidential bid
Before his re-election last year, Governor Scott Walker struck a conciliatory tone on the issue. Now he’s behind a bill to ban terminations after 20 weeks.
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When Money Decides a Father’s Rights, Both Men and Women Suffer
Kevin Noble Maillard has written a fascinating piece for the Atlantic about Christopher Emanuel, a South Carolina man who struggled to gain custody of his daughter after her mother gave her up for adoption without telling him about it. The story exposes some major flaws in the adoption system that stem, in large part, from the knotty question of how to find balance between father's rights and the well-being of children in a world where many fathers refuse to take responsibility.
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The old critique of “judicial activism” is back with a vengeance.
Many of the liberal decisions this spring, including the Obamacare, gerrymandering, Confederate flag and fair-housing rulings, were not “activist” at all. In fact, they were examples of judicial restraint since they deferred to the determinations of other branches of government.
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Does belief that God is in control reduce support for government welfare?
There’s an enduring puzzle about religion and government, and it’s about what effect religions have on government welfare policies. That’s down to an intriguing observation: that more religious countries tend to have a weaker welfare state.
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