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ASTROPHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING: ALIENS ARE OUT THERE BUT COULD BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, April 25, 2010 (364 hits)
LONDON - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 8:48PM
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MAN VS. WOMAN. BLACK VS. WHITE. GOOD VS…WELL…BETTER. SNL’S GREAT CHERRY SPITTING WAR (986 hits)
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S ANDY SAMBERG AND GABOUREY SIDIBE FACE OFF IN COMPETITION, ONE ON ONE, MANO A MANO, TO SEE WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN THE BATTLE OF PRECISION CHERRY SPITTING. And the winner is… ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 2:21PM
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ANDERSON COOPER CONFRONTS ARIZONA “BIRTHER” ON CNN (1115 hits)
ANDERSON COOPER: “BUT I MEAN THE INFORMATION IS OUT THERE. IT HAS BEEN RELEASED. SOME PEOPLE DON’T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THE MOON IS MADE OUT OF CHEESE.” Have you heard that the Birthers are making a comeback? ...
Posted Thursday, April 22nd 2010 at 3:43PM
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WATCH: TEA PARTIERS ON TAX PROTEST DAY IN WASHINGTON DC STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE SO AFRAID (454 hits)
A correspondent for New Left Media ventured out among the tea partiers during their tax day protests in Washington D.C. to interview them about what it is that's fueling their fierce opposition to to the government in general and President Obama in p ...
Posted Wednesday, April 21st 2010 at 5:30PM
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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE POKES FUN AT TEA PARTIERS: “They got no sense of humor.” April 17, 2010 (739 hits)
Bill Hader made an appearance as James Carville last night on "Weekend Update," and had some fun at the Tea Baggers expense. Referring to their dispeasure with Obama poking fun at them, Carville pretty much spelled it out: "You can't dress how you ...
Posted Sunday, April 18th 2010 at 10:37AM
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RACHEL MADDOW TALKS ABOUT LAWSUIT AGAINST GOLDMAN-SACHS AND THE NEED FOR FINANCIAL REFORM April 16, 2010 (644 hits)
Rachel Maddow talks with Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson about the S.E.C. lawsuit against Goldman-Sachs and the ill-advised Republican opposition to financial reform. ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 10:48AM
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A MIGHTY PALE TEA: NY TIMES COLUMNIST CHARLES M. BLOW ATTENDS TEXAS TEA PARTY RALLY, April 17, 2010 (519 hits)
AT FIRST I THOUGHT, “WOW! THIS IS MUCH MORE DIVERSE THAN THE RALLIES I’VE SEEN ON TELEVISION.” THEN I REALIZED THAT I WAS LOOKING AT STADIUM WORKERS. I SHOULD HAVE FIGURED IT OUT WHEN THE GREETER ASKED, “ARE YOU WORKING TONIGHT?” On Thursday, ...
Posted Saturday, April 17th 2010 at 9:18AM
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FLORIDA GETS IT RIGHT: GOV VETOES BILL LINKING TEACHER PAY AND JOB SECURITY TO TEST SCORE, NY Times, April 15 (1319 hits)
“I AM NOT A PUPPET MASTER. I CAN’T PULL STRINGS AND MAKE THEM PERFORM,” SAID ONE MIAMI-DADE TEACHER. “I CAN’T EVEN MAKE THEM COME TO SCHOOL.” MIAMI — Gov. Charlie Crist has been jawboned and buttonholed as he has traveled around the state in r ...
Posted Friday, April 16th 2010 at 9:22AM
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NO WOMAN NO CRY, Bob Marley (536 hits)
GOOD FRIENDS WE HAVE HAD, OH GOOD FRIENDS WE’VE LOST ALONG THE WAY/ IN THIS BRIGHT FUTURE YOU CAN’T FORGET YOUR PAST/ OH MY LITTLE SISTER, DON’T SHED NO TEARS/ NO WOMAN NO TEARS. No woman, no cry (Repeat 4 times) Said I remember when we used ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 7:31PM
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EMANCIPATE YOURSELVES FROM MENTAL SLAVERY; NONE BUT OURSELVES CAN FREE OUR MINDS (797 hits)
WON’T YOU HELP TO SING/ THIS SONG OF FREEDOM/ CAUSE ALL I EVER HAVE…REDEMPTION SONGS, REDEMPTION SONGS. by BOB MARLEY Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit. But ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 5:27PM
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ASTRONOMER FOR FRANKLIN INSTITUTE EXPLAINS OBAMA’S NEW NASA POLICY April 14, 2010 (386 hits)
On COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts explains how the administration’s revised plans for NASA will save space exploration. ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 4:56PM
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HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE: SUCCESS IN EDUCATION. Watch Ed Bradley’s Report from 60 Minutes, Nov. 13, 2006 (1235 hits)
“IF YOUR CHILD COMES TO THIS SCHOOL, WE WILL GUARANTEE THAT WE WILL GET YOUR CHILD INTO COLLEGE. WE WILL BE WITH YOU, WITH YOUR CHILD FROM THE MOMENT THEY ENTER OUR SCHOOL TILL THE MOMENT THEY GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE.” GEOFFREY CANADA, HARLEM CHILDRE ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 7:55AM
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OKLAHOMA REPRESENTATIVE WILL INTRODUCE LAW TO CREATE A STATE MILITIA TO FIGHT THE U.S. GOV’T, (544 hits)
ON COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN, PRINCETON PROFESSOR MELISSA HARRIS LACEWELL EXPLAINS HOW STATES FORMING MILITIAS CONTRIBUTES TO ANTI-GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, An Oklahoma Representative throws his support behind a Tea Party eff ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 7:58AM
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SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: NEO-CONFEDERATES CHANGE HISTORY by Jon Meacham, New York Times, April 11, 2010 (1275 hits)
THAT HAS NOT STOPPED THE “LOST CAUSERS” WHO SUPPORT MR. McDONNELL’S PROCLAMATION FROM TRYING TO RECAST THE WAR IN MORE RESPECTABLE TERMS. THEY WOULD LIKE WHAT LINCOLN CALLED “OUR FIERY TRIAL” TO BE SEEN IN A POLITICAL, NOT A MORAL LIGHT. In 1956, ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 8:28PM
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“MISSISSIPPI GODDAM”: FORGETTING SLAVERY A MISTAKE? “I DON’T THINK SO,” SAYS MISSISSIPPI GOV. ON CNN (549 hits)
ASKED IF THE SLAVERY OMISSION WAS A MISTAKE, HE SAID, “I DON’T THINK SO…ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT SLAVERY IS A BAD THING, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING…IT’S SORT OF FEELING THAT IT’S A NIT, IT’S NOT SIGNIFICANT.” Mississippi Gov. Ha ...
Posted Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 8:23PM
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VIRGINIA GOVERNOR PROPOSES GIANT STATEWIDE HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, The Borowitz Report, April 10, 2010 (312 hits)
RICHMOND, VA-- In his most ambitious effort yet to connect Virginia to its past, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) today proposed building what he called "a gigantic, state-of-the-art hot tub time machine." Once completed, the enormous hot tub time mac ...
Posted Saturday, April 10th 2010 at 9:47AM
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CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES: HARDBALL DEBATE ON VIRGINIA GOV’S CELEBRATION OF CIVIL WAR WHILE IGNORING THE CAUSE (701 hits)
Watch: Karen Finney, African-American Democratic Strategist and descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee debates Pat Buchanan, member of the Sons of the Confederacy, moderated by Hardball’s Chris Matthews Chris Matthews asks: “What kind o ...
Posted Friday, April 9th 2010 at 9:15AM
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"THE PARTY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ACTING LIKE THE PARTY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS" Chris Matthews April 7, 2010 (356 hits)
Watch HARDBALL's Chris Matthews jump on the historical distortions and the idiocy of celebrating a war of rebellion to destroy the country. ...
Posted Wednesday, April 7th 2010 at 9:04PM
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WE STILL DON’T HEAR HIM: WHY ARE WE IN AFGHANISTAN? Bob Herbert, New York Times, April 3, 2010 (353 hits)
DR. KING SPOKE ABOUT THE DAMAGE THE VIETNAM WAR WAS DOING. “A NATION THAT CONTINUES YEAR AFTER YEAR TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON MILTARY DEFENSE THAN ON PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL UPLIFT IS APPROACHING SPIRITUAL DEATH.” The great man was moving with what seem ...
Posted Monday, April 5th 2010 at 5:32PM
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WANDA SYKES ATTEMPTS TO OUT-BADU ERYKAH IN HILARIOUS TAKE ON “WINDOW SEAT” (324 hits)
Comedian Wanda Sykes' showed singer Erykah Badu her take on the "Window Seat" controversy in a video clip where Wanda is trying to take her clothes off as she walks down the street, but has a few problems along the way. Erykah Badu loved the vid ...
Posted Monday, April 5th 2010 at 10:46AM
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GOT GAME? OBAMA PLAYS BALL. WATCH P.O.T.U.S. PLAY P.O.T.U.S. CBS News, April 4, 2010 (321 hits)
Call him the Basketballer-in-Chief. On Saturday night, during halftime of the Butler-Michigan State game, CBS aired footage of Barack Obama taking on CBS Sports analyst Clark Kellogg in a game of P-O-T-U-S - a presidential version of H-O-R-S-E. In ...
Posted Sunday, April 4th 2010 at 9:09PM
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AN ARTICLE OF FAITH: CONFUSION AND MISINFORMATION VS. INFORMATION AND REASON New York Times, April 3, 2010 (380 hits)
THIS UNDERSCORES THE CURRENT FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THIS COUNTRY. IT’S NOT JUST A TUG OF WAR BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT. IT’S A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE HEART, BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND EMOTIONS, BETWEEN REASON AND ANGER, BETWEEN WHAT WE KNOW AND WH ...
Posted Saturday, April 3rd 2010 at 8:31PM
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNING WRITER ALICE WALKER TALKS ABOUT BALANCE, NATURE, MEDITATION, PEACE (452 hits)
BALANCE, PEACE, MEDITATION, NATURE. WHY WE NEED IT. ...
Posted Saturday, April 3rd 2010 at 8:14PM
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SENEGAL’S CONTROVERSIAL NEW AFRICAN RENAISSANCE MONUMENT DRAWS CROWDS, CRITICS, Reuters, April 3, 2010 (3570 hits)
SENEGAL’S MONUMENT TO THE “AFRICAN RESISTANCE” WILL BE FORMALLY UNVEILED BEFORE FOREIGN DIGNITARIES AND CELEBRITIES ON SATURDAY. SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK’S STATUE OF LIBERTY, THE GIANT STATUE OF A MAN, WOMAN AND INFANT IS PERCHED ON A HILL OVER ...
Posted Saturday, April 3rd 2010 at 12:14PM
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EASTER UNDER INVESTIGATION: DID HE COME BACK TO LIFE? The Historical Record, Washington Post, April 3, 2010 (372 hits)
I SAW PLENTY OF DEAD BODIES AS A REPORTER FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE COME BACK TO LIFE. THAT IS STUFF OF MYTHOLOGY AND LEGEND. AT LEAST, THAT IS WHAT I THOUGHT… By Lee Strobel I saw plenty of dead bodies as a report ...
Posted Saturday, April 3rd 2010 at 10:56AM
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