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The Disenfranchised Antiwar Voter

It seems not to matter that the voters are themselves dissatisfied with the course the country seems to be taking overseas: while growing numbers oppose the "nation-building" extravaganza proposed by the Obama administration in Afghanistan, the alleged "conservatives" who funded  …

Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes

We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties.

Computer models 'overstate species risks' if you ignore the microclimate significant at smaller scales

Some large-scale computer simulations may be overestimating the impact of climate change on biodiversity in some regions, researchers have suggested.

Experts map the body's bacteria

Scientists have developed an atlas of the bacteria that live in different regions of the human body. Some of the microbes help keep us healthy by playing a key role in physiological functions.

Are you doing anything in public you shouldn't be - maybe grooming yourself and grossing people out?

These days, if someone seated near me on my morning ride is putting on makeup, someone else is clipping his fingernails (and, on one odd occasion this summer, a toenail). Or they're plucking eyebrows, tying ties, squeezing pimples, even spraying perfume.

Poll: Will Health Care Reform Pass This Week End

The house is expected to vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) This week end. Have you read the bill and called your congress person?

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Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospital

School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn't sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.

The Time Has Come

Saturday November 7, 2009 at 6pm Eastern Time is ZERO HOUR for health care reform in the United States. I implore you to call your representative, you only have one, and demand that they vote FOR an affordable and fair health care plan for all Americans.

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Fort Hood Tragedy

The "thing to focus on" is not, I believe, as a previous caller had stated that the man doesn't want "to do his job" and is thus a "coward." The focus for all Americans is to ask "Why?" Why did this soldier, obviously a good military man who reached the rank of …

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