Obama's Smoking Cure?, written 3 days ago, Under the circumstances, let this president smoke.

Obama Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure, written 2 days ago, Now that Eric Holder is in the process of trying to graduate from Barack Obama's vice-presidential search committee to President-elect Obama's apparent nominee for Attorney General, it's a good ...

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The Stupid Party, written 3 days ago, The Economist doesn’t pull its punches. JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who have been busy reinventing conservatism for a new era. As Lexi...

Where's the Library Bailout Plan?, written 3 days ago, The housing collapse has dire implications for public libraries

Quinn trivializes same-sex marriage effort, claiming: "[G]ays never wanted to get married until ... about five years ago", written 2 days ago, On the November 19 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent said of the nationwide protests that have followed...

Enya Gets Played (On The Media: Friday, 14 November 2008), written 1 week ago, This week, the Supreme Court declined to review a case about whether it was legal to play Enya under a video montage of a murder victim’s life. Such "victim impact statements" serve as testimony submitted duri...

Asylum's Photo of the Day, written 2 days ago, On the Asylum daily beat, we come across some pretty amazing images -- visual celebrations of human and animal weirdness. We see so many cool photos that we feel the need to share with you on a daily basis. Seen an image that can't be surpassed? Let... ...

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Is this the world's weirdest face paint?, written 2 days ago, James Kuhn, 46, is an artist with a thousand faces... Well. At least 365 faces. Every day this year Kuhn has created a new persona for himself using the world's most inventive face paintings, and then shared those creations with the world...

Contrarian Thinking Secured Me Against Over Optimism in the Boom Years, written 2 days ago, I call myself a contrarian, and contrarian thinking secured me against over optimism in the boom years of the 1990s and early 2000s...

Dan Dubno about how to become President in the US, written 1 week ago, Dan Dubno is a journalist, 6 time Emmy winning TV anchor and american election commentator. He is talking at Sime now. It was not only a Internet campaign. The campaing helped people to connect to other people in their neighborho...

with Dan Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Pervert Bitches about Sentence, written 1 week ago, Honestly, I have this little issue with people who sexually abuse at least six children (five girls and a boy) all under the age of 13- and then whines about the fact that he gets sentenced to 14 to 40 years in prison. "That's life," l...

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Sarah Palin Ruins Thanksgiving?, written 2 days ago, You may have heard Sarah Palin can hunt and skin a moose, but did you know that she could give an interview while someone else slaughters turkeys in the background? In the video below (warning! watching this video could prevent you from eating tur...

Marriage Equality And Religious Freedom, written 2 days ago, A reader makes a point that isn't made often enough: I am another gay man who has no problem with a church refusing to conduct a same-gender marriage rite. What I don't understand is why the conservatives/fundamentalists can't get it...

13 Christmas Gifts for our Muslim Friends, written 3 days ago, I'm Jewish but in my home we decorate our home for Halloween and go with our grandchildren trick-or-treating because it is an American Holiday and certainly not because we worship witches or hobgoblins; the pagan antecedents for All Hall...

Honeytrap Lies and Women Spies, written 2 days ago, Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.