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Response to Producer, Bill Lichtenstein

By Jeanne Lenzer
Bill Lichtenstein fails to contradict the key points we made in our article; namely that The Infinite Mind series was funded in part by drug company money; ... Read More

Why do working-class Americans hate socialism?

By Ralph7
Why do working-class Americans hate socialism? The proletariat instinctually understands socialism’s flaws better than liberal intellectuals. While I agree ... Read More

Obama's Presidency: Hindered by His Supporters?

By mercadia
Now that it looks like Obama has a very strong shot for the candidacy, one has to ask this question: will he be able to get Clinton supporters on board ... Read More

"I was True but Wrong" Saletan's nonretraction mea culpa

By galtonian
Saletan approvingly quotes Metcalf's comment " It's a conflict between science and science ." More exactly it is a conflict between two opposing scientific ... Read More

So much talk about the math and that Hillary can't win

By LaurieAnnM
Just now below Lono again used this rationale for his belief that Hillary has no chance at all to win. So many Obama ites keep citing the mantra,"It's ... Read More

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Reverend Wright-true perspective

By Bigsky007
I am utterly amazed at how seemingly uninformed or intentionally ignorant many people are with respect to the Reverend Wright’s ministry. For some forty ... Read More

Musings of a republican feminist

By kamom
Yes republican and feminist. I remember growing up in the 60's and playing basketball - and having mothers of other players tell me I did not play in a ... Read More

On Obama paying Clinton's debts

By zebra
I am experiencing cognitive dissonance about the idea of a system in which one candidate is essentially allowed to spend another candidate's money (contributed ... Read More

your faith is so fragile?

By greenfield1
Seems that the paranoid perspective prevails when faith is fragile. That's when the extreme view of the world prevails... be it Christian or Muslim or.... ... Read More

Really?

By Bryguy
"Mobilize the entire Guard and Reserves. No president has ever done this, including Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War, because it would put thousands ... Read More

Dear Crabby - "The Princess of Rides" edition

By baltimore aureole
Dear Crabby, My daughter is a single mommy. She and her lowlife girlfriend came over, dumped their kids on me, and went bar hopping til all hours of the ... Read More

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Did he really leave the wife?

By Kathleen1981
Or did the wife divorce him? We don't know anything about this story. I think it's pretty clear that LW #1 does *not* have a healthy skepticism about what's ... Read More

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Anita and the Truth

By AustiniteX2
I normally completely agree with your advice, but I think with Anita and her husband's girlfriend, this information needs to come out. This could literally ... Read More

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Wait a second...

By Eric Fry
The February poll about Truman was hardly a question about his popularity. It seems to have asked specifically whether he would succeed at cleaning up ... Read More

'deathwatch'? don't get hysterical

By judefolly
yes, it's been a long, drawn out contest for the democratic presidential nomination; sen. clinton will have her soul-searching view over the precipice ... Read More

Operation Iraqi Freedom EML Advice

By soldier27
Ma'am, To clear up some bad information being stated in some of the comments your Soldier's EML for 15 month long deployments will be 18 days starting ... Read More

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While No One Is Looking…

By Demosthenes2
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. --H. Jackson Browne We all get to act when nobody is looking. We vote when nobody is looking. ... Read More

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Call to the Post: Cold, Hard Handicapping

By Urquhart
( field and odds , past performances ) Riders up! Sound the bugle for the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. And a dismal one it promises to be! For ... Read More

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ALMOST NOT ENTIRELY MINDLESS QUOTE MINING

By RonB52
from <link> "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other ... Read More

The Wisdom of the Haiku-Master

By rundeep
Dear H-M: My adult daughter gave me her kids while she drank. How can I prevent? Tell her it's open bar at your house, with free food! Then invite counselor. ... Read More

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Isolutions

By Isonomist
Dear DPers, This year, Mothers' Day happens to fall on Jesse's birthday. I'd love to tell you I'm ready to make it a celebration of the 22 years I was ... Read More

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Finally, Oil Spews From One War Horse's Mouth

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Slick McCain talks and skids on that spreading oil stain.. .. <link> <link> Iraq By Moonlight .. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the ... Read More

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A child is born to us this day...

By Sawbones
A child born in my hospital by the name of Anakin Vader R________ . I am not making this up. Little bastard tried to use the Force voice on me today - ... Read More

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