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How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill. - High Society
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John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship. - The Trouble With Climate Science
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Monday, March 8, 2010
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Eight reasons why the health-insurance industry should change its position and support reform. - Gather Ye Ringwalds
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A post from DoubleX writer Claire Gordon: In Salon, Mary Ann Sorrentino writes that Angie Jackson’s live-tweeted abortion makes a mockery of the right to choose—fought with tears and placards—and finally won under the 14th Amendment’s “right to privacy.” Here at DoubleX , Read More -
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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland shattered Avatar 's record for a 3-D premiere this past weekend — raking in $116 million to Avatar 's $77 million. Alice also set a record for the "biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel." How did Alice slay the blue cats? As Box Office Mojo's Brandon Read More -
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There's something odd about the billboard campaign against aborting black babies. The child who appears beside the text is fully born. Abortion doesn't kill such children. What kills them, all too often, is shooting. If you wanted to save living, breathing, fully born children from a tool of extermination that is literally targeting blacks, the first problem you would focus on is guns. They are killing the present, not just the future. But the sponsors of the billboards don't support gun control. They oppose it. Read More -
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