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E.J. Dionne $13.57
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Mar 11, 2011
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 AP / Jae C. Hong
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Google is “99.9 percent” certain it will shut down its search engine operation in China after the government in Beijing warned the company that it was flouting the country’s censorship laws, which require limited access to content like “Tiananmen Square” and “democracy.”
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 From wikipedia.org
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State affiliates are severing ties with the conservative evangelical organization, in part because it’s diverting attention from abortion and same-sex marriage to address other issues—like the environment.
So: The Christian Coalition begins supporting a non-hateful cause that could actually improve the world, and it gets deserted by affiliates that see same-sex marriage as a greater threat than global warming.
In other words, the Christian Coalition got out-crazied!
Posted on Aug 24, 2006
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Two of the scientists responsible for sounding the alarm on the thinning ozone layer have reported that the hole over the Antarctic has stopped widening, and may close within a generation or two. If true, this proves what can be achieved when government works to address, rather than deny, an environmental catastrophe. Global warming, anyone?
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The former secretary of state, speaking on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, said the scandal-plagued detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be shuttered immediately.
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A United Nations panel on torture isn’t buying President Bush’s assurances that America does not send suspected terrorists to countries known for using torture to extract information. The panel also recommended the closing of America’s Guantanamo military prison in Cuba.
Posted on May 19, 2006
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The British attorney general says the continued existence of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is “unacceptable.”
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