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Deadly blasts rock southern Afghanistan (149 diggs) A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.

The New Rove-Cheney Assault On Reality (179 diggs) The revisionist history peddled by Liz Cheney and Karl Rove must be aggressively refuted, and we must remember who really failed to keep America safe.

Kissinger admitted to South Korean hospital (172 diggs) Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus, a doctor told CNN.

Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill (259 diggs) President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

More Democrats come out against health care bill (363 diggs) As House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional rank-and-file Democrats have come out against the Obama administration's signature domestic priority.

Members of Congress Boosted their budgets 5% last Year (331 diggs) Job losses, home foreclosures and the worst economy in decades have forced many Americans to cut back or do without. But not members of Congress, who voted themselves a 5 percent increase in their own budgets last year.

Barack Obama's approval rating drops to 46% (576 diggs) President Barack Obama yesterday delayed a trip to Asia amid falling approval ratings and grave doubts that his 11th hour attempt to push health care reform through Congress will succeed. A new poll by Gallup showed Mr Obama's approval rating at a record low of 46% since taking office. In the optimistic early days of his presidency 69%

Sex being AWESOME helps sell condoms in SouthEast Asia (256 diggs) With more Southeast Asians flouting cultural prudishness by speaking openly about sex, condom companies in Indonsia and Thailand, such as Thai Nippon Rubber hope to raise revenues here in 2010. But that's proving to be a challenge due to deeply engrained social and cultural views that associate condoms with extramarital sex, prostitution and sin.

Help sought in identifying people in serial killer's photos (328 diggs) Hoping to solve numerous cold cases, authorities on Thursday released hundreds of photos of unidentified women and children found in a storage unit that belonged to a serial killer who appeared on 'The Dating Game."

Hugo Chavez Sends Army to Change All Lights in Venezuela (328 diggs) It might sound like the start of a bad joke, but how many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to change a light bulb? When the country is in the midst of its worst electricity crisis for 50 years, the answer is lots. In fact, an entire army's worth.

How the Census affects you (and why you shouldn't ignore it) (330 diggs) For some people, the United States Census is a too long, too cumbersome questionnaire that is a once-a-decade hassle. That attitude, however, can be very harmful to our cities' futures. The census

Stopping Afghanistan's Fertilizer Bomb Factories (213 diggs) In a bloggers roundtable today, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, lobbied Afghan President Hamid Karzai to impose a ban on ammonium nitrate fertilizer, one of the common ingredients for homemade explosives, which are a weapon of choice and much harder to detect than other explosives

McConnell's Strategy For Health Care: No (365 diggs) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is on a search-and-destroy mission for anything that comes from the Democrats. This especially applies to health care, where he has decided that opposition boils down to one word: No. Is this a winning strategy? McConnell and his GOP colleagues are betting on it.

Sorry, Mr. Beck; Jesus Preached Social Justice. (1,001 diggs) An evangelical leader is calling for a boycott of Glenn Beck's television show and challenging the Fox News personality to a public debate after Beck vilified churches that preach economic and social justice.

'Apartheid' call system filters out poor clients (271 diggs) A new banking phone system will identify those with low credit approvals and put them through to a call centre in India.

The Top 10 Conservative Sex Scandals (315 diggs) The conservative side of the political spectrum has attempted to use their version of morality for nearly 30 years as a way of winning elections. Although both sides and the center certainly have their sex scandals, when they are done by the so called family values Christian Conservatives, it is especially hypocritical.

Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot - Yahoo! (218 diggs) Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.

Lehman Brothers Bosses Manipulated Balance Sheets ! (415 diggs) The accountancy giant failed challenge book-keeping 'gimmicks' the American investment bank was using to stay afloat, according to an official report. $700billion collapse of Lehman Brothers which triggered world recession........... ..........

Short sales to the rescue? (226 diggs) With new Treasury Department rules designed to expedite short sales set to take effect April 5, relief can't come soon enough for some area buyers, sellers and real estate agents who have waded through a long and arduous process to get short sales approved by the bank.

Homeless man lives on rewards points (367 diggs) A lingering benefit of his former well-paid and well-traveled corporate life is keeping a roof over the head of Jim Kennedy, who is now jobless, bankrupt and foreclosed on. He’s using his rewards from airline loyalty programs and hotel points to move from hotel to hotel.

Bank Takes Woman's Home and Parrot In Mortgage Mix-Up (284 diggs) Bank of America is apologizing for taking a woman's home - and her pet bird - after wrongly targeting her for foreclosure.

The Cleveland UFO: What on Earth? (452 diggs) For more than a week, a mysterious pulsating light has been appearing each night over Lake Erie east of downtown Cleveland. The unidentified flying object, which shows up at approximately 7:30 pm and zips around in the darkness for about two hours before disappearing, has been captured on film from various angles.

The Silly Debate Over Big Government (293 diggs) Sloganeering only obscures the debate over the proper role of government.

From Porn to Parliament: Director Up For Election (237 diggs) The first woman in Britain to direct adult films revealed yesterday, however, that her political colours are of a different hue. Anna Arrowsmith, hailed in some quarters as a champion of 'female-friendly porn', has been chosen as a Liberal Democrat candidate in the General Election.

Venezuela Murder Rate Has Quadrupled Under Hugo Chavez (463 diggs) One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela. Chavez blames the high crime rates on wealth inequality created under former leaders, but that doesn't explain why the murder rate has exploded during his decade-plus in power.