U.S.
Ballot prop to legalize pot gets everyone’s attention
September 29, 2010If you want voters to pay attention to propositions, try putting one on the ballot to legalize pot.
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“Pro-Muslim” textbooks banned in Texas
September 28, 2010By focusing on Texas, the extreme right has been able to keep Thomas Jefferson and Thurgood Marshall out of textbooks in districts around the country.
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Global warming at stake in November elections
September 28, 2010Not one Republican running for the US Senate in the November elections favors action to curb greenhouse emissions causing global warming.
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Science: did wind help Moses part the waters?
September 28, 2010There may be a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red Sea.
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Obama discusses elections with student journalists
September 28, 2010Today's young people, the so-called "Lost Generation," is going to be just fine, says President Barack Obama-but only if the progressive reforms made in the past two years are defended from the Republicans-and expanded upon.
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