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    Liberals blame external causes. Conservatives blame internal

    MAY 21, 2012 1:07AM

    By David Satterlee


    Topics: society, community, punish, equality, education, moral, injustice, oppression, education, responsibility, ethics, values, conservatives, liberals

    • 12 Ratings
    • 659 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Are We Doomed? (Seriously, Are We?)

    MARCH 19, 2012 10:04PM

    By dunniteowl


    Topics: solutions, now, past, future, progress, character, honor, integrity, honesty, change, compassion, love, treachery, deceit, manipulation, domination, control, power, tolerance, ethical and social conduct, moral, philosophy, are we doomed?, is there a better way to live than this?, survival, death, life, chance, fate, cassandra, calamity, doomed, spirit, human, rational, logic, thought, reason, epiphany

    • 13 Ratings
    • 836 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Goodbye Joe, and good riddance!

    NOVEMBER 10, 2011 12:23AM

    By Wren Dancer


    Topics: sports, politics, news, family, business, belief/religion, religion, outrage, moral, ethical, legal, pedophiles, football

    • 0 Ratings
    • 128 Views
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    Protecting the Sanctity of Marriage

    NOVEMBER 2, 2011 11:49AM

    By Mark Daniels


    Topics: belief/religion, family, news, gossip, gay/lesbian, television, politics, right, values, moral, marriage, divorce

    • 11 Ratings
    • 1089 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Curse of the Zombie Weiner

    JUNE 20, 2011 7:37AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: government shadowiness, government transparency, shadow government, transparent government, not a dead issue, dead issue, not dead, not over, undead, zombies, zombie, constitution, due process, osama bin laden, bin laden, new york's 9th district, new york's ninth district, ny's, new york's, nth district, 9th district, ny, new york, weiner's district, michael blozen, msnbc, ed schultz, lying, lie, anthony weiner, weiner, barack obama, obama, birth certificate, show your papers, show his papers, papers, stepping down, step down, shamed, shaming, shame, immorality, immoral, morality, moral, establishment clause, first amendment, eye on the ball, magic trick, trick, magic, sleit of hand, legerdemain, we the people, distraction machine, distract, witch hunt, hounding, hounded, hound, harrassed, harrassment, mischief, cognitive dissonance, benefit of law, laws all being flat, cut down every law, a man for all seasons, robert bolt, politics

    • 16 Ratings
    • 905 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    A Quickie about Weinergate

    JUNE 10, 2011 11:35AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: high crimes and misdemeanors, crime, bad judgment, poor judgment, judgment, unethical, ethical, ethics, gays in the military, litmus, war, elected official, election, elected, resignation, resign, stepping down, step down, hounding, hounded, hound, plutocracy, citizens united, money, consent of the governed, due process, immoral, moral, immorality, morality, embarrassment, embarrasing, embarrass, harrassment, harrassed, harrassing, weinergate, anthony weiner, weiner, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 117 Views
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    Not Ambivalent About Osama's Death

    MAY 5, 2011 3:07PM

    By Strongmier


    Topics: moral, death, osama bin laden

    • 0 Ratings
    • 113 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Kosovo War Crimes Institute established

    MAY 1, 2011 2:07PM

    By Korrik Sofalia


    Topics: yugoslavia, war crimes, war, uck, pdk, moral, kuci, kosovo, kosova, kla, justitia, justice, croatia, crimes, bosnia, politics, news

    • 4 Ratings
    • 132 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    The Cat & the Mice

    DECEMBER 22, 2010 10:03PM

    By aesopshead


    Topics: aesop, moral, fiction, fables

    • 4 Ratings
    • 339 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    How Capitalism Suffocates Intellectual Life

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 2:47PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: waugh, strachey, stagnation, single payer health care, renewable energy, psychotropics, pharmaceutical lobby, moral, map, irritable bowel syndrome, innovation, history of psychiatry, food lobby, food borne illness, faulkner, ethics, depression, crohn's, corporatism, coming struggle for power, capitalism, big pharma

    • 0 Ratings
    • 122 Views
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    "Stormy weekend deer venture"

    APRIL 28, 2010 4:10AM

    By dbflower


    Topics: impulse, deer, hunting, moral, life lessons, family, wheather, animals

    • 1 Ratings
    • 174 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    "CHEROCK and OLD GLORY"

    FEBRUARY 23, 2010 11:04PM

    By TAR-PAPER SHACKS' and ALL-GLASS VILLAS' BLOGS


    Topics: self preservation, education, lessons, poetry, entertainment, fun, kids, character, mind, heart, political satire, politics, old glory, stories-in-rhyme, different perspectives, truth, lies, deceptions, hidden agendas, moral, plausible denialibility

    • 15 Ratings
    • 947 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Point of No Return

    JANUARY 19, 2010 12:06AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: condoning, condone, not proper, improper, impropriety, bad character, character, standards, bad role model, not a role model, role model, setting a bad example, setting an example, fraud, stuffing, stuff, ballot, vote, election, lying, lie, innuendo, hinted, hint, recommendation, low road, high road, moral high ground, right from wrong, right vs wrong, right and wrong, wrong, right, analysis, morality, moral, immoral, unethical, unacceptable, not accepted, accepted, acceptance, breach of trust, inappropriate, over the line, crossing the line, cheater, cheating, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 323 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Lively Doesn't Want Gays Killed, Just Eliminated

    JANUARY 6, 2010 11:28PM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: abiding truth ministries, american family association, anti-homosexuality bill, caleb lee brundidge, christian, criminal, cure, death, dick cheney, don schmierer, employee free choice act, gay, gay agenda, george w. bush, glenn beck, hiv, homosexual, homosexualize, jesus, latvia, lgbt, moral, national labor relations act, nazi, prison, sarah palin, scott lively, southern poverty law center, stephen langa, the pink swastika, uganda, watchmen on the walls

    • 28 Ratings
    • 1214 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    My Brother’s Reality Intrudes

    JANUARY 4, 2010 7:15PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, adoption, unethical, moral, immoral, keep, keeper, catholic, birth control, dui, dwi, drunk driving, accident, crash, welfare, jail, prison, lost job, losing job, adopted, ward of the state, foster child, foster children, unwanted, pregnant, pregnancy, abortion, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-abortion, unwanted child, unwanted pregnancy, carry to term, finances, financial, economics, afford, care for, raise, child, children, health care, health insurance, universal coverage, public option, responsible, irresponsible, ethical

    • 1 Ratings
    • 294 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Random Saturday Thoughts

    NOVEMBER 8, 2009 2:04PM

    By Matthew Phelps


    Topics: gay, lgbt, fundamentalist, fundamentalism, moral, government, dadt, enda

    • 29 Ratings
    • 2749 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    My Brother Is Pregnant

    OCTOBER 29, 2009 5:59PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, birth control, catholic, keeper, keep, immoral, moral, unethical, ethical, irresponsible, responsible, public option, universal coverage, health insurance, health care, children, child, raise, care for, afford, economics, financial, finances, carry to term, unwanted pregnancy, unwanted child, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, adoption, abortion, pregnancy, pregnant, unwanted

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    • 1 Ratings
    • 1241 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Closing of Gitmo "On Track" Despite Delay of Key Reports

    JULY 21, 2009 9:37AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: liberty, freedom, civil liberties, aclu, news, politics, government, cia, cheney, interrogation, detention, prison, guantanamo bay, gitmo, guantanamo, intelligence, republicans, democrats, moral, immoral, illegal, legal, rule of law, law, detainees, torture, bush, obama

    • 0 Ratings
    • 488 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Battlefield of the Uterus

    JUNE 4, 2009 6:40PM

    By david smith


    Topics: uterus, war, abortion, right to life, right to choose, iraq, freedom, republican party, moral

    • 13 Ratings
    • 1320 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Injecting Hope into Stem Cell Research

    MARCH 8, 2009 2:00PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: grant money, federal funding, paralysis, alzheimer's, parkinson's, heart disease, insulin, diabetics, immorality, morality, immoral, moral, catholic church, vatican, pope, human embryos, gene therapy, taxpayer money, bush, obama, hope, dogma, religion, medical ethics, fetus harvesting, cloning, embryonic stem cell research, stem cell research, embryonic stem cells, stem cells, health care

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