Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Salon: "My opponent is on Bill Maher’s radar": Meet the Marine intent on ousting a Tea Party nut

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September 9th, 2014
Wesley Reed, Blake Farenthold

"My opponent is on Bill Maher's radar": Meet the Marine intent on ousting a Tea Party nut

Marine Wesley Reed tells Salon why his opponent Rep. Blake Farenthold makes voters "cringe"

Bruce Levenson, Ray Rice

Pro sports' fake morality play: Ray Rice, Atlanta Hawks and our deep dishonesty about race and gender

Yes, the NBA and NFL are rid of Bruce Levenson and Ravens running back. But both moves are reactionary and cynical

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Southern secessionist group forming paramilitary unit called the "Indomitables"

The neo-Confederate organization is training to advance a second southern secession by any means necessary

George W. Bush speaks about the Iraq War supplemental, Monday, April 16, 2007.

Bush apologist hits new low: An infuriating attempt to rewrite Iraq history

Washington Post's Marc Thiessen feels George W. Bush is owed an "I told you so" on Iraq. Nope, not even close

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If only American kids could eat school lunches like they do in France

Compare these meals. Now see if you can guess which country is facing an obesity epidemic?

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"I want a straight white male gaming convention": Inside the culture war raging in the video gaming world

As a gamer myself, I've seen tensions simmering in the community for years. So #gamergate doesn't shock me at all

Iggy Azalea, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj

Turn down for butt: How the derrière took over pop culture

From Iggy Azalea to Nicki Minaj, rear ends have never been more in vogue. So Salon asked an expert: Why?

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Fox News takes 12 seconds to apologize for making light of Janay Rice's assault

The hosts of "Fox & Friends" were criticized Monday for their insensitive comments about domestic violence VIDEO

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How Apple built the greatest hype machine in the history of the world

That nation impatiently awaits huge news of iPhone tweaks and the return of the wristwatch. What's wrong with us?

John Boehner

Do-nothing GOP plans to do even less: Here's Congress' big plan for September

Aside from a couple of spending bills, Congress will mostly focus on "midterm messaging." How about an ISIS debate?

Robert Reich

Robert Reich: Housing segregation destroyed Detroit

The former secretary of labor on why the burden of the city's recovery shouldn't fall squarely on its employees

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4 ways greedy capitalists rig the system to profit off our misery

Each of us is a source of profit, as long as we rent or own a home, save a little money and drink water

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Tinder settles sexual harassment lawsuit with former executive

Whitney Wolfe, former co-founder of the dating app, filed the complaint in June 2014

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So Taylor Swift is a Shoshanna: Now maybe we can stop declaring which "Girls" character we are

Swift has joined a long list of famous and not-so-famous people who claim to identify with someone from the show

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Keith Olbermann on Roger Goodell: "An enabler of men who beat women" who "must resign"

The former MSNBC pundit blasts Goodell for allegedly covering up Ray Rice's abuse of then-fiancée Janay Palmer VIDEO

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We are on the verge of a sixth mass extinction

A new study shows that humans are killing species faster than they can be created

Rupert Murdoch

WSJ continues to make things up about climate science

Amid misinformation, a columnist makes a ridiculously short-sighted argument for delaying action

Pakistan Flooding

These photos powerfully portray the flooding devastation in Kashmir and Pakistan

Hundreds have died in floods in Pakistan and India

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking: "God particle" could demolish the universe

The physicist warned that under high energy levels, the Higgs boson could collapse space and time VIDEO

John Harbaugh, Ray Rice

Ray Rice fired — but every other terrible person associated with the Ravens still has a job

If the only thing causing action is bad PR, it's time for John Harbaugh and Roger Goodell to be PR problems, too

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