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http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5963751

' Election officials and watchdog groups are bracing for the wave of sneaky or suspicious phone calls, leaflets and emails that typically hit battleground states in the final 30 days of the presidential ' (comment by kar1a Oct 08, 2008)

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http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=10&year=2008&base_name=responsibil...

' Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a good point: I don't hold McCain or Palin accountable for the incredible hatred that we've seen at their rallies as of late. Let me rephrase--I don't think they're accoun' (comment by kar1a Oct 08, 2008)

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http://www.harbork.com/au?ustr=Ypj2bGLwI8szBURBhIHD&topic=Trance

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http://www.harbork.com/a?ustr=cEbeVIqDtLbuRFPa2uP7&topic=The Free Market

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http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2008/09/lolobama.html

' [photo]' (comment by kar1a Oct 06, 2008)

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http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2008/09/the-gop-launche.html

' [On Palin - from last month, but great commentary.] One of my famous morning-after thoughts. One thing you can take away from the GOP convention is the very stark idea that this is a party that r' (comment by kar1a Oct 06, 2008)

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http://www.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/09/palin_v_reality.php

' [Handy list] PALIN: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already. But the fact that drilling won't sol' (comment by kar1a Oct 06, 2008)

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http://biden.senate.gov/press/opeds/oped/?id=b571d33d-a469-4e2f-9f61-fb93a59807c9

' For the Senator's actual thoughts on Hezbollah in Lebanon, read the article he wrote: [excerpt] In joining with Europe (particularly France), the United Nations, and Saudi Arabia, the administratio' (comment by kar1a Oct 06, 2008)

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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

' After narrowly winning the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. As the President of the United States his greatest domestic triumph was the war on drugs, which m' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/08/28/EPA_sued_for_info_honeybee_deaths/UPI-85491219953925/

' "Recently approved pesticides have been implicated in massive bee die-offs and are the focus of increasing scientific scrutiny," NRDC Senior Attorney Aaron Colangelo said in a statement. "EPA should be' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://interestingtimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-just-wanna-fly.html

' Some people are suspicious of Obama because they think he is politically pragmatic and therefore not the fighter they want him to be. I am certain that Obama is politically pragmatic and that is why' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.leblogjardin.com/2008/08/les-insectes-so.html

' Abeille Assez, halte, stop! Cessons d'utiliser à tort et à travers tous ces insecticides chimiques qui tuent les insectes. Le problème posé par la disparition progressive des abeilles préoccupe c' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/crime/key-witness-testifies-in-witch/

' Opening arguments began yesterday in the strange witchcraft murder trial of Carla Mendez accused of the Silver Lake murder of a local snow-cone vendor who she believed had put an evil spell on Mendez' ' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/08/you_heard_it_he/

' [For the scrapbook - I actually did hear it here :) ] Huge congratulations Joe -- this is one of the great moves of the Obama campaign, one that could have gone wrong -- and they got it very right. ' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/printnews.asp?nid=27785

' A United Nations-backed group seeking to slash measles deaths has expressed concern over the recent surge in reported cases of the virus in the United States. Thanks to a successful vaccination prog' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LM402862.htm

' KINSHASA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Poachers in Congo have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa's oldest national park this year as China buys more ivory, the park's director said on Friday. Rwandan r' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080901faessay87501/richard-holbrooke/the-next-president.html?mode=pri...

' The United States is not a helpless giant tossed on the seas of history. It is still the most powerful nation on earth, and within certain limits, it can still shape its own destiny and play the leadin' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/printable.asp?art_ID=95199&cat_ID=5

' The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become increasingly overshadowed and orchestrated on both sides by extreme and uncompromising religious groups that view their political mandate as holy and sacred.' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080805/982/tsc-humans-eating-monkeys-into-extinctio.html?printer=1

' London, Aug 5 (IANS) Humans are eating their closest relatives into extinction, particularly in Southeast Asia, alarmed conservationists have revealed. Nearly half of the world's 634 species of monk' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Strategic+shift+in+North+Africa+mil...

' Cairo - A string of suicide bombings in Algeria this week has intensified concerns that the country's Islamist militancy is rising, guided by insurgents who have been trained in Iraq and are now waging' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/209395.php

' Will the McCain as trigger-happy hothead work? I suggest a different calculus. Is it true? I would suggest that it definitely is, both in personal temperament and policy prescriptions. And I believe th' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_liberal_shock_doctrine

' Progressive political change in American history is rarely incremental. With important exceptions, most of the reforms that have advanced our nation's status as a modern, liberalizing social democracy ' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/08/secrecy_impedes.html

' The Senate Judiciary Committee still finds itself unable to gain access to influential records of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) relating to interrogation, detention and torture.' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://stupidest.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/afghanistan-a-new-vocabulary/

' Okay, so Afghanistan is finally big news. All we need to do now is learn how to describe the war — and avoid the semantic pitfalls we stumbled into in Iraq. A few suggestions: * Stop calling t' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3852/

' The next president will face a daunting task in putting the house back in order: “No matter who is elected in November, it will take years to repair this damage.”' (comment by kar1a Oct 05, 2008)

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