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Karl Rove vs. Karl Rove | The Bald-Faced Lie that Is Karl Rove

In his weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove has written about how Obama is jeopardizing his chances for re-election by appearing too liberal or too populist...American Crossroads, the big money GOP group founded by Karl Rove, is warning Republicans that Presiden …

Senate Democrats Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires

The proposal would replace the range of tax deductions for wealthy people, oil companies and other businesses that the president had proposed to end to offset the cost of the job-creation initiatives in his plan. Democratic leaders said they hoped to bring the revised plan to  …

Defeatism : Austerian Policies Bring US to the Brink

Throughout modern economic history, whether in Western Europe in the 1920s, in the US and elsewhere in the 1930s, or in Japan in the 1990s, every major financial crisis-driven downturn has been followed by premature abandonment—if not reversal—of the macroeconomic s …

Tobacco Firms' Own 1960's Research Showed that Tobacco Smoke is Radioactive

As the U.S. government begins regulating tobacco, a new study says tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept that information from the public. More Seeds :: JCAtom

The Strength Of Perry's Ignorance

"[Perry]: I don't think our founding fathers when they were putting the term 'general welfare' in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care... "Q: So in your view those things fall outside of general welf …

'Nobody in this country got rich on his own. Nobody.'

An August video of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail is heating up on the internet, and some commentators are pointing to the clip - in which Warren makes a case for progressive economic policies - as evidence that the newly minted Democratic …

Is Human Resistance Futile? Maps Show March Of Drug-Resistant Germs

So just tool around this collection of interactive maps showing the march of drug-resistant germs across North America and Europe. The global health nonprofit Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy came up with the ResistanceMap.    

Almost 1 Million Young Adults Get New Health Insurance

As of September 2010, the Affordable Care Act allowed young adults up to the age of 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance plans.

Harvesting 'Limitless' Hydrogen from Organically Self-Powered Cells

US researchers say they have demonstrated how cells fuelled by bacteria can be "self-powered" and produce a limitless supply of hydrogen.   More Seeds :: JCAtom

Turning Point - ReProgrammed Immune System Vanquishes Cancer

At first, nothing happened. But after 10 days, hell broke loose in his hospital room. He began shaking with chills. His temperature shot up. His blood pressure shot down. He became so ill that doctors moved him into intensive care and warned that he might die.

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