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Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate (521 diggs) When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception. Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of W ürzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move into a nursing home, and r

Hey Condoleezza, How Do I Get These Nasty Stains Out? (1,443 diggs)

The evolution of a conspiracy theory (827 diggs) It wasn't only the Twin Towers that collapsed on September 11. A third World Trade Center tower that wasn't hit by the planes also fell. As a report into Tower 7 prepares to publish its findings, Mike Rudin considers how this conspiracy theory got to be so big. 9/11 is the conspiracy theory of the internet age.

US War On The Third World: 40 Years of CIA Activity (710 diggs) John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates over 6 m people were killed.

Trust [PIC] (4,278 diggs)

Thoreau: Routine War Degenerates the Army (744 diggs) "But when war too, like commerce and husbandry, gets to be a routine, and men go about it as indented apprentices, the hero degenerates into a marine, and the standing army into a standing jest." No political statement intended, simply something to ponder.

The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency (1,185 diggs) In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration's 10 greatest moments -- disastrous failures, all -- is about as pointless as picking out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: There are entirely too many of them, and taken together they all add up to a throbbing mass of pain

An Open Letter To Senator Obama: Vote NO On Telecom Immunity (2,207 diggs) The people who support you are speaking loudly and clearly. I believe you will hear them and will uphold your promise to oppose any FISA bill which includes immunity for for the telecommunications companies which unlawfully went along with President George W. Bush's program of warrantless wiretapping of ordinary American citizens.

Did An Activist Supreme Court Punt On Heller? (454 diggs) This weeks 5-4 Supreme Court decision on District of Columbia vs. Heller was widely touted as a landmark ruling. The court settled, finally, the big question; did the Second Amendment provide for private ownership of guns or did the Founding Fathers intend only to guarantee the right to arm militias?

Bob Barr - A Real Choice (1,499 diggs) Finally a viral video from the Barr campaign!

Fox Hosts Outraged Al Qaeda Might Watch C-SPAN (987 diggs) Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade claimed to be upset at the notion that Al Qaeda may be watching hearings about Bush Administration interrogation policies that aired on C-SPAN. Kilmeade says he believes that Al Qaeda may target David Addington for his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. So much for open government. Can you say LAME?

CNN's Beck: Don't Detain Terror Suspects, Just Kill Them (1,482 diggs) Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming that if he were President, he would do away with detaining and prosecuting terrorism suspects altogether.

The only place in the U.S. where privacy is still valued (1,374 diggs) Now that the Senate moved one step closer towards tracking all online transactions, it appears that there is only one place in the United States where your security is truly valued. Unfortunately, it's a members only club.

McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy (753 diggs) What's actually disturbing is the Swift Boat Media's complete indifference to McCain's bald-faced hypocrisy on the same issue. Amidst all the attacks on Obama's "flip-flop," how much have you read in the MSM about the fact that McCain has "completely reversed himself" on public financing -- and is currently breaking the law on a daily basis, making

Thomas L. Friedman: Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave! (1,068 diggs) Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. The new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.” It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe."

Damaging McCain Comments Missing from FOX News Transcript (2,590 diggs) Three months ago, John McCain told Sean Hannity that he "really didn't love America" until became a POW. FOX has scrubbed that part of the interview from their official transcript on their website.

Bush’s Post-Presidency To-Do List (633 diggs) We all know President Bush can ’t wait to say “Adios” to the White House next January. Here’s a look at his post-presidency agenda—a back-to-the-basics approach to life in Crawford.

10 of the Most Shocking American Political Sex Scandals (793 diggs) The last two decades have brought us so many political sex scandals that we might be tempted to think they ’re a new thing. However, looking back over the history of this great nation, you’ll see that political sex scandals have been embarrassing politicians and causing a stir since the very beginning.

CBS News Correspondent: "I'd blow my brains out" (6,180 diggs) The latest in a series of recent high-profile media "mea culpas," CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan told Jon Stewart she'd "blow her brains out" if forced to watch what passes for TV news coverage in America.

Stephen Elliott: As Long As We're Talking About Michelle Oba (1,647 diggs) Mrs. McCain was adicted to prescription pain killers, stole them from a non-profit agency where the stolen drugs were intended for the poor, and avoided jail by going to rehab.

George Bush Doesn't Care About White People (1,077 diggs) The Daily Show tackles Bush's Katrina-speed response to the Midwest floods.

Jon Stewart Mocks Media For Peddling Insane Obama Rumors (3,796 diggs) On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon mocked the media's willingness to peddle insane rumors about Barack Obama — and their tendency to blame the rumor-mongering on internet sites. Calling it "Baracknophobia," Stewart showed clips of anchor and pundits from all three cable networks repeating baseless rumors (Muslim, plagiarist, sexist, etc.) .

Democracies Can't Compromise on Core Values (761 diggs) As the American president embarked on his farewell tour of Europe last week, Der Spiegel, echoing the sentiments of a number of leading newspapers on the Continent, pronounced "Europe happy to see the back of Bush." Virtually everyone seems to believe that George W. Bush's tenure has undermined trans-Atlantic ties...

Kucinich, O'Reilly face off over impeachment (2,598 diggs) Man I hate Bill O'Reilly.

NY Times: Justice 5, Brutality 4 - Supreme Court Swats Bush (1,277 diggs) The Supreme Court ’s most recent ruling was a good day for people who abhor President Bush’s attempts to turn Guantánamo Bay into a constitutional-rights-free zone. For years, with the help of compliant Republicans and frightened Democrats in Congress, President Bush has denied the protections of justice, democracy and plain human decency.