Protesters are brutally suppressed in TV footage direct from Honduras.
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Today in Moronia
- Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
- The lowly groundhog: long may they Live
- American Apparel refuses to give prize to woman who won their photo contest
- Huge pythons are wiping out Everglades mammals
- Teach your child how to survive being arrested at school
- Gingrich urges students to get jobs, but his wife and family paid for his school
- Paul Krassner’s Lunar New Year predictions for 2012
- Welfare drug testing bill withdrawn after being amended to include lawmakers
- Coming for science: Why I orgasmed in an MRI scanner
- Miss America: auditioning for center stage
Today’s News
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Police battle street rioters in Honduras
12 Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Coal Town
By Walter Brasch The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results–it determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life. Norman E. Nickle, 54, who lived in Pottsville, the county seat, was sentenced in April...
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Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun responds to “The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention”
Often forgotten, the some 800,000 Middle Eastern Jews fled or were summarily expelled for being Jewish in the 20th century, were the topic of “The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention” by André Aciman in an op-ed published by The New York Times, June 8, 2009. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun responds. The article reminds...
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Report: Clean Energy Economy Generates Significant Job Growth
Contact: Brandon MacGillis, 202-88… and Andrew McDonald, 202-55… Washington, DC – 06/10/2009 – The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007, according to a report (PDF) released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew developed a clear, data-driven...
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