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News Is Polygamy Legally Permitted in Canada?
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News Why are we concentrating on gay specific bullying instead of all bullying?
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News Is Ben Bernanke facing political pressure as Fed chair?
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News The Grassroots movement , and the Tea Party
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News Can the market alone fix the economy?
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News American School Makes Boy Remove American Flag From His Bicycle
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News Bogus Claim - Obama wants to implement Sharia Law
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News If East Germany Could Secure Their Border So Can America
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News Which Speech Would You Choose: Bush on the Taliban or Bin Laden on the U.S.?
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News Update on Chevron pollution case in Ecuador
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News Can Income Tax Rate Hikes Close the Deficit? (interesting article)
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News Did Sarah Palin cost the GOP control of the Senate?
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News Was the Top Russian Spy Defection a Strategic Move or a Deceptive Ploy?
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News Did the Saudis save the world from a major terror attack?
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News Latin America under the iron boot. Does USA people know about that?
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News Is Shirvell's Firing Justified for Harassing a Publicly-Elected Official?
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News UAE and Kuwait have such a low tax revenue as percentage of GDP
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News US Midterm Elections - Predictions and Post-mortems
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News An Impressive Rescue: Chilean Miners
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News Obama Admin Takes Credit for Bush Era Wind Farm Jobs
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News Inderjit Khurana: A Lifelong Contribution to Education & Community
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News Is Seeking a Religious Roommate a Civil Rights Violation?
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News What are the chances of funding cuts to science? (at the levels of the UK?)
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News Keep fear alive - Rally to Restore Sanity
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News Who is the most respected political rival across party lines and why?
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News Do Low Interest Rates Really Help The Economy?
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News Bizarre Iowa Supreme Court Campaign Ad | #1 in Strange Political Ads
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News A Trip Down Market Street [San Francisco], 1906
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News Are the Bush Tax Cuts Still Beneficial to the Economy?
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News Balancing Energy Needs: The Debate on Drilling in the Bakken Shale
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News In Delaware and it is funtime for elections
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News Are Politicians Now Openly Lying to Secure Votes?
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News High court: Does father's pain trump free speech?
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News You'll never guess who Obama us related to.
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News Death Penalty for cut and dried cases?
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News Is the Recession Really Over? Experts Declare End in June 2009
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News Business and government 100 years ago
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News Kim Jong Un Given 4-Star General Status at age 28
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News RIP Benoit Mandelbrot: Father of Fractal Geometry Passes Away
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News What’s Really Going On with Alvin Greene?
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News VA System: Better Care with Less Profit Incentive
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News China's reaction to the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
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News China's Nobel Peace Prize reaction
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News Can You Help Prevent the Internet Blacklist?
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News Are women people? The inconsistency of absolute originalism
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News Kim Jong-un, China's Deng Xiaoping & North Korea's Reforms
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News Was Jerry Brown's campaign strategy to call Meg Whitman a whore a step too far?
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News State attorney launches bizarre Internet war on openly gay college student
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News US Apologizes for 1940s STD Study Infecting Guatemalans with Syphilis
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News Where are the jobs? Perhaps they exist.
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News French Senate Approves a Ban on Burqas
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News The end of the war, finally [WWI]
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News Is Using Pain Rays in Prisons a Humane Alternative for Riot Control?
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News Should all religions in the US be tax-exempt?
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News Was Iran Targeted by the Stuxnet Worm?
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News Support for American/Nato forces in Afghanistan
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News Titanic Sank Due to Panic and Design Error, Claims Book
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News Is Removing the FICA Cap a Viable Solution for Social Security's Future?
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News Just a little respect for the President
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News Could Significantly Upping Defense Spending Help the Economy Recover?
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News Case Scenario: Iran's Nuclear Program & Oil Prices
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News Ralph Nader's Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us
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News Should the U.S. Government Control College and University Accreditation?
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News Gulf Oil Spill Disappearance: Microbes Eat Up the Oil
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News Will the San Bruno Gas Line Explosion Become a Major News Story?
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News Is the U.S. Losing Its Freedom of Speech?
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News More Demand for Goods and Services will Create More Employment ?
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News Gainesville Reverend Plans To Burn Qu'ran
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News Liberal Media Attempting to Understand Conservatives
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News Oil spill area coming back to life
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News The downside to government incentives
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News US judge cites Sharia Law in decision
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News Russian spy claims David Kelly was exterminated
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News Spain 1936-1937: Libertarian Socialism & Its Demise
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News GITMO detainees and Obama's promise
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News Can Expanding Access to Medicare Really Solve the US Healthcare Crisis?
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News Buy a condo for less than a new car
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News Is the Assault Intervention Device Ethical for Use in Jails?
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News Is Race War Inevitable? - Watch this Youtube Video to Explore the Topic!
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News Are patriotism and nationality still relevant in today's world?
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News Are the goals outlined in the United Nations Charter realistic?
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News Last combat troops pulled out of Iraq
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News Is Racism and the Race Card Still a Relevant Issue in America?
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News Becoming a Capitalist President in El Salvador. Some advices?
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News Where can I find a prescriptive English grammar book for British English?
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News Is the US a Plutocracy? Citigroup says YES.
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News Federal Judge Strikes Down Prop 8: California Gay Marriage Ban
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News Lindsey Graham's Modification of 14th Amendment
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News Is Capitalism Truly Superior to Communism?
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News No Mosque at Ground Zero, But a Prayer Room?
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News Can the cop who fatally shot a man at Oakland station be tried again by DoJ?
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News Poland Flooding: Crisis Situation Worsening
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News Who is Asif Zardari and How Has He Impacted Pakistan's Education Sector?
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News How Has the Status of Women in Afghanistan Evolved Historically?
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News Embedded Journalists - AP Reporter Shooting Rehash
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News Republican Hypocrisy: Flip-Flops on Own Policies
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News Should foreign companies pay taxes?
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News Wikileaks release classified documents
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News Why Is the Mexican Drug War Still Unresolved Despite US Funding?
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