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Patients face bitter choice: Pay up or lose care
Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:43 AM EST (msnbc.com)
A growing number of U.S. doctors are enacting their own brand of health reform, with some dumping insurance companies altogether and others forcing patients to pay thousands of dollars in cash to keep the care they're accustomed to. Msnbc.com's JoNel Aleccia reports.
Divorce Risk Higher When Wife Gets Sick - [The Gingrich Effect]
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:22 PM EST (The New York Times)
When Dr. Marc Chamberlain, a Seattle oncologist, was treating his brain cancer patients, he noticed an alarming pattern. His male patients were typically receiving much-needed support from their wives.
An Officer's Outrage Over Fort Hood
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:05 AM EST (RealClearPolitics)
As an officer in the United States Army, I'm angry for so many reasons over what happened at Ft. Hood. I'm angry that twelve of my fellow soldiers and a contractor were murdered.
Elite college students proud of 'pro-rape' Facebook page
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:03 PM EST ()
A GROUP of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''.
No Gay Rights. No pledge to the flag
Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:35 PM EST ()
There's a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasn't going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledge's rote recitation asserts.
After Twitter shuts down GOP accounts impersonating Dems, party complains of "free speech" infringements.
Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:33 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Twitter has shut down 33 fake accounts created by Connecticut Republicans meant to impersonate Democratic state representatives.
Being Female Is A Pre-Existing Condition
Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:45 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
It's unbelievable that there's out right discrimination towards women when it comes to health care just because of their gender.
Toddler denied insurance for being too small
Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:53 AM EDT
First, a Colorado baby was turned down for health insurance for being too big. Now, another Colorado child has been turned down for health insurance for being too small.
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Breaking the last racial taboo - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:49 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Even politicians are not immune to scrutiny of interracial marriages in our supposed post-racial.....
US authorities urged to overturn death sentence after jury consulted Bible
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:06 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
A clutch of jurors huddled in the corner with one reading aloud from the Book of Numbers: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" and "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer."
Amazing Grace Baptist Church to Burn Bibles, Other Books for Halloween; King James Bible 'Only True Word of God'
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:00 PM EDT (associatedcontent.com)
The pastor of the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina plans to celebrate Halloween by leading his fourteen member congregation by burning Bibles. Pastor Marc Grizzard is not a Satan worshiper or a militant atheist.
Religion is not a choice but being gay is, GOP leader's spokesman says
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:48 AM EDT (Raw Story)
You were born a Christian, not born gay. Religion is not a choice.
Federal judge in Ga. sanctions 'birther' attorney
Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:51 AM EDT
A federal judge in Georgia fined a leader of the movement challenging President Barack Obama's citizenship and warned her against using the legal system to pursue "political rhetoric and insults."
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Banning Abortion...
Seeded on Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:06 PM EDT ()
...doesn't reduce the number of abortions. Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report suggests.
Get In The Streets! Tell Hollywood Rape IS Rape.
Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 3:54 PM EDT (National Organization of Women)
Was it rape, or was it rape? How about rape-rape? Does it make a difference when a convicted criminal pedophile and international fugitive happens to go by the name Roman Polanski?
Molecular Biologist fired by George Bush wins Nobel Prize
Mon Oct 5, 2009 9:55 PM EDT
Elizabeth Blackburn has won the Nobel Prize for medicine. She had been on Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2001 until she was fired in 2004. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration.
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Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered?
Seeded on Mon Oct 5, 2009 7:51 PM EDT (Telegraph)
An historian has claimed to have discovered the real identity of Jack the Ripper and believes the notorious Whitechapel murderer was also responsible for killing two more women.
The Politics of Spite: If the GOP thinks something may be good for the president, they're against it, whether or not it's good for America
Seeded on Mon Oct 5, 2009 5:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)
There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago's bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.
'Bluehenge' - Archaeologists discover Stonehenge's sister-site just a mile away
Seeded on Sat Oct 3, 2009 10:09 AM EDT (Mail On-line)
Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's little sister - just a mile from the famous monument. The prehistoric circle, unearthed in secret over the summer, is one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades.
Scarborough Calls Gop Reaction 'just Plain Stupid'
Seeded on Fri Oct 2, 2009 7:05 PM EDT (Political Animal)
A surprising number of conservatives are doing a happy-dance over the fact that the United States will not host the Olympic summer games in 2016.
Canada far outranks U.S. in healthcare report card
Seeded on Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:37 PM EDT (CTV News)
The annual report card ranks Canada 10th out of 16 developed countries, with a "B" grade. The United States was the worst performer, placing 16th and earning a "D" grade. Japan was once again the top-ranking country. Switzerland, Italy, and Norway also earned "A" grades.
How to solve 9 sleep problems
Seeded on Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:53 PM EDT (CNN)
"Most of us have experienced those maddening midnight moments when, no matter how tired we are, we either can't fall asleep, can't stay asleep or our sleep is of such poor quality it feels as if we were awake.
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Did she fake breast cancer to get implants?
Elite college students proud of 'pro-rape' Facebook page
Divorce Risk Higher When Wife Gets Sick - [The Gingrich Effect]
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An Officer's Outrage Over Fort Hood
No Gay Rights. No pledge to the flag
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After Twitter shuts down GOP accounts impersonating Dems, party complains of "free speech" infringements.