Christie's No Messiah and can the GOP afford anything less then a full on Messiah is the question...

Well. After that performance at the Reagan Library, Chris Christie, the man who doesn’t want to run, is likely to be dragooned into the arena.

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Moment 'peaceful' female Wall Street protesters were maced by police | Outstanding Photo and Video Journalism

A collage of media from the protests in New York. These are some brave kids standing up and doing the right thing all alone and facing a mob of cops trying to stop them... Its a must see.

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Murdoch Offering to Buy Off Victim's of Hacking For Millions

The family of Milly Dowler, the teenage murder victim whose voice mail messages were illegally intercepted by The News of the World, has been offered a multimillion-dollar settlement by the tabloid’s parent company, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Mond …

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Sick Gulf residents continue to blame BP - Features - Al Jazeera English

Taylor asked Captain Rose and the other Coast Guard personnel on the panel, "How much money has BP given you folks? Because it appears to us, who are having health problems, you are being silenced from addressing the dispersant and health issues". Inadequate compensation Untold …

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Obama signs 1st major patent law change since 1952

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a major overhaul of the nation's patent system to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market.

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Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?

Fundamentalist religion plays a big role in today's Republican party--but has it gone even further, spreading dangerous beliefs as articles of faith?   This country needs a lot of things, and maybe first and foremost among them is for our brand of conservatism to return to …

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Republican Party's Base: A Gallery of Ghouls

Audience outbursts at recent Republican Party debates reveal the often vicious sentiments of the party's base. n a rather shocking - yet sadly, not surprising - display of the bloodlust and viciousness usually reserved for members of law enforcement pulling over a driving-while- …

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BBC - Fears over THOUSANDS of Libyas missing SURFACE TO AIR MISSLES.

While Libyan rebels have taken some of the weapons in recent months to arm their conflict against forces loyal to Col Gaddafi, it is unclear where the rest have ended up. Most notably, some empty boxes seen by reporters were marked as having held 9M342, which experts linked to th …

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Right-Wing Religious Corruption And The Christian Dominionist Perry Agenda - The Daily Beast

During the last weeks of his 1998 race for Texas lieutenant governor, Rick Perry was tied with Democrat John Sharp, and many expected him to lose.

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Nobel winner urges Japan to abandon nuclear power

The nuclear accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was like "a third atomic bombing" that Japan inflicted on itself, Oe said. "We already faced the major threat of radiation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The Republicans are now the anti-science party

Mr Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissingevolution as "just a theory", one that has "got some gaps in it" That's a remarkable statement – or maybe the right adjective is "vile". So how has Mr Romney, the other leading contender for the …

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Marijuana Is Going to Be Sold One Way or Another -- Question Is, Would You Rather it Be Cartels or Regulated Businesses?

“Market alternatives,” he said.  This is the new debate in a nutshell.  Criminal market vs.

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Why Rick Perry Would Put the World on a Fast Track to Total Meltdown | Environment | AlterNet

Burned trees, charred wildlife, destroyed homes — Texas has endured more than 16,000 wildfires since January, which have consumed over 3 million acres of land. With little rain, the state has become a tinderbox.

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Why 'Constitutional Conservatives' Like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry Have No Respect for the Constitution | News & Politics | AlterNet

The problem with the Tea Partiers’ claimed fealty to the Constitution is that it's a form of religion rather than analysis.

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Why Is the Military Spending Millions on Christian Contractors Bent on Evangelizing US Soldiers? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

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