• Health Issues in Red America
  • South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds spent part of his day Tuesday urging hunters to get into better shape. Rounds said they would feel better tramping ...
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  • Cliche Watch
  • Time magazine writers this week prove the importance of writing about what you know -- even if what you know is only a cliche. Reviewing ...
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  • Following Pinchback
  • Now that Deval Patrick has taken the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts, there's a pretty good chance that the nation will have an African-American governor. (...
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  • Heads Up: 9.20.06
  • WA tries all-mail-in voting; turnout dips to lowest point in years. Olympian NYC is the safest big city -- again. NYDN A green community grows ...
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  • Moving Back to Ground Zero
  • A couple days ago, the federal government and the New York State government announced they would occupy a large chunk (1 million sq ft out of ...
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  • I Say It's Spinach
  • posted by Alan Greenblatt I've been waiting for this. The Heartland Institute is the first, on my radar at any rate, to lay blame for ...
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  • Apostates Need Not Apply
  • The Bush administration sent "the loyal and the willing instead of the best and the brightest" to govern Iraq in the early days ...
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  • How to Hack a Voting Machine
  • Wanna know how to hack the election? Not only have some scientists at Princeton told us how to do it. They've also made a hacker-friendly ...
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  • Heads Up: 9.19.06
  • Jewish leaders: God positively abhors foie gras. Can't stand the stuff. Chicago Sun-Times Is Buffalo's losing streak over? NYT Ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey's affair turns into &...
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  • Pension Puzzle
  • Amid all of the justifiable concern about underfunded public pension systems, most recently in Alaska, it's easy not to notice that some places appear to ...
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