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Senator's Ties to Real Estate Draw Criticism
New York Times - May. 9 (News Report)
He has made millions as a title insurance executive, landlord and real estate developer in this college town, where the economy, despite trouble nationwide, is still growing... More »

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Gas prices rattle Americans
USA Today - By Judy Keen, Paul Overberg - May. 9 (News Report)
Record high gas prices are prompting Americans to drive less for the first time in nearly three decades, squeezing family budgets and causing major shifts in driving habits,... More »

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Bill Clinton funds at issue
McClatchy - By Greg Gordon - May. 9 (News Report)
Hillary Clinton's decision to lend her presidential campaign $6.4 million from assets she holds jointly with her husband is rekindling questions about millions of dollars that... More »

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The US War on Journalists
TruthDig / Common Dreams - By Amy Goodman - May. 9 (Special Report)
Targeting journalists, the Bush administration has engaged in direct assault, intimidation, imprisonment and information blackouts to limit the ability of journalists to do their... More »

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Council on Foreign Relations - By Eben Kaplan, Jeremy Sherlick - May. 8 (Special Report)
An in-depth, multimedia look at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its geopolitical repercussions. This interactive, graphical overview covers this crisis from a... More »

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5 Myths About Being 'Pro-Israel'
Washington Post - By Jeremy Ben-Ami - May. 10 (Opinion)
Criticize or question Israeli behavior and you're labeled "anti-Israel," or worse. But unquestioning encouragement for short-sighted Israeli policies such as expanding... More »

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American democracy in all its filthy glory
The Independent - By Matthew Norman - May. 9 (Opinion)
From 3 January, when the caucus-goers of Iowa packed into each other's houses to argue the toss with courteous fervour, all the way to Tuesday when the good people of Indiana... More »

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The Clinton Divorce
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - May. 9 (Editorial)
We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of... More »

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A Somber Anniversary
The Nation - By Avi Shlaim - May. 9 (Opinion)
Israelis approach the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of their state in a subdued and somber mood. More »

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Charles Warner: Note to Senator Obama
Huffington Post - By Charles Warner - May. 9 (Blog Post)
"We did not give Hillary Clinton a penny. Her mendacious, destructive, poorly managed, and pandering campaign has demonstrated how unfit she is to be president... More »

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Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain: Scientific American
Scientific American - By Siri Carpenter - May. 8 (News Report)
psychologists have established that people unwittingly hold an astounding assortment of stereotypical beliefs and attitudes about social groups: black and white, female and male,... More »

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Pentagon's Accounting Mess
Portfolio - By Scott Paltrow - May. 3 (Special Report)
The basic defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... More »

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Chinese firms bargain hunting in U.S
Los Angeles Times - By Don Lee - May. 5 (News Report)
Liu is part of a growing wave of Chinese entrepreneurs expanding into the U.S. From Spartanburg to Los Angeles they are building factories, buying companies and investing in... More »

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Faith, Hope, and Chastity
Texas Monthly - By Katy Vine - May. 5 (Special Report)
Texas ranks number one in teenage births, which, all told, cost taxpayers at least $1 billion a year. (Twenty-four percent of those births are not the girl's first delivery... More »

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Love Thy Neighbor
Columbia Journalism Review - By Tim Townsend - May. 6 (Interview)
As a reporter covering religion at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the last four years, I've been a witness to attitudes and language on my beat that would make veteran political... More »

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This Week's Top Rated - Opinion

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Media complicit in making Wright look bad
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Kenneth F. Bunting - May. 3 (Opinion)
Barack Obama's forceful denunciation and disavowal of his former pastor doesn't change the fact that it is an irrelevant distraction entirely created by cable television pundits... More »

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10 ways to blow your tax rebate
San Francisco Chronicle - By Mark Morford - May. 3 (Opinion)
ere's the bad news: Your little recession-deflecting tax rebate? No rebate at all. Not even close. It's more like this: You've been continuously mugged and beaten and robbed blind... More »

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Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime
Wall Street Journal - By Patrick Fleenor - May. 7 (Opinion)
Traditional organized crime is involved, terrorist groups are involved, and street gangs are involved." Rivalry among these groups has resulted in numerous shootings and... More »

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Cap and trade: "inefficent and ineffective"
The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 7 (Blog Post)
Over the weekend, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two Oakland, CA EPA attorneys, speaking as private citizens, sent an open letter to every member of Congress indicating that the... More »

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Those Chickens: The Economic Crisis and America's Poor and Struggling
3 Quarks Daily - By Michael Blim - May. 6 (Opinion)
Banks made greater profits on sub-prime loans because they could charge working class and near-power households more for their mortgages... More »

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'We Have Nothing. How Do We Go On?'
Washington Post - By Jennifer Cavagnol - May. 9 (News Report)
the baby girl is growing weaker by the day. Ma Gan is not producing breast milk, and almost a week after the storm blasted through, there is virtually no clean water in Bogale or... More »

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Conservationists make most of real estate crisis
USA Today - By Haya El Nasser - May. 9 (News Report)
Plummeting real estate values and demand for new housing are hammering developers but helping conservationists, enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for... More »

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In F.E.C. Moves, Some See Effort to Aid McCain
New York Times - By Michael Luo - May. 9 (News Report)
Bob Bauer, Senator Barack Obama's campaign lawyer, penned an essay on his own legal Web site that sought to connect the dots with the White House's announcement... More »

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Global Inflation
World Politics Review - May. 9 (News Report)
In addition to the credit crunch, the spectre of inflation is haunting the global economy, hitting the world's poor More »

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Jamal Dajani: Civil War in Lebanon?
Huffington Post / LinkTV - By Jamal Dajani - May. 8 (News Analysis)
The war of words between Lebanon's political leaders has finally turned into battles on the streets of Beirut. Today, gun battles have erupted in Beirut following a speech by... More »

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Pat Buchanan: Where's the what?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board - May. 9 (Editorial)
"We hear the grievances," wrote Buchanan in his treatise on cluelessness, "A Brief for Whitey." He continued, "Where is the gratitude?" And for what... More »

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Why the Obama-Clinton speculation is nuts
The Politico - By John F. Harris, Jonathan Martin - May. 9 (Blog Post)
The Clinton veepstakes is an ideal subject for pontificating because so few people have any hard information to know what they are talking about... More »

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Government in secret
Los Angeles Times - By Russ Feingold - May. 8 (Opinion)
The Bush administration recently announced it will allow select members of Congress to read Justice Department legal opinions about the CIA's controversial detainee interrogation... More »

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Israel at 60
American Prospect - By Daniel Levy - May. 9 (Opinion)
Not 20 kilometers from liberal Tel Aviv is a reality that is unforgiveably ignored. In the West Bank, Israel imposes one of the longest, last remaining and most dehumanizing of... More »

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Faking it
Bitter Lemons International - By Rime Allaf - May. 9 (Opinion)
Facts have rarely gotten in the Bush administration's way when demonizing a political opponent, even when that opponent has actually tried to accommodate multiple American demands... More »

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Pressed freedom -
Boston Globe - May. 8
judge walton said from the bench, that he hoped his ruining locy would make other government officials less likely to talk to reporters. More »

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Damascus: The Destruction of The Old City
Global Voices - Apr. 20
Damascus prides itself on being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. The history of Damascus goes back well into 8000 BC... More »

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Wronging Wright: Obama denounces the reverend
Voices without Votes - May. 2
Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been a thorn in presidential hopeful Barack Obama's side since his controversial comments from the pulpit emerged in March... More »

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The Pentagon vs.America
TruthDig - May. 9
In short, instead of serving as a force of protection for the American people from external threats, the military views the American people as the threat, "targets"... More »

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A Somber Anniversary
The Nation - May. 9
Israelis approach the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of their state in a subdued and somber mood. More »

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American democracy in all its filthy glory
The Independent - May. 9
From 3 January, when the caucus-goers of Iowa packed into each other's houses to argue the toss with courteous fervour, all the way to Tuesday when the good people of Indiana... More »

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Many Economists Back McCain, but More Are Silent
Wall Street Journal - May. 8
Almost half of the economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey decided against answering a question on which presidential candidate offers the most responsible... More »

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The Clinton Divorce
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - May. 9
We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of... More »

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Radiohead Figures Out How To Sell 99-cent Song for $4.95 to 2,250 People
Portfolio - May. 3
The contest certainly is another interesting experiment by Radiohead in how to sell music in the Internet Age. The band posted five "stems" of the song on iTunes -- one... More »

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techPresident - Political Implications of the Cognitive Surplus
TechPresident - May. 8
In 2003, Howard Dean supporters who rallied around the candidate's fierce opposition to the Iraq War used their Cognitive Surplus to organize themselves on Meetup... More »

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