Today, Media Matters for America denounced Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, who recently declared that Glenn Beck was "right" when he called President Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
Tensions over the complex containing the al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall have boiled over into rioting several times in the past two weeks.
"Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's little sister - just a mile from the famous monument."
A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counselors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and "rescue" them.
An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver sword decorations, crosses and other items, British archaeologists said Thursday.
With the White House zeroing in on the insurance-industry practice of discriminating against clients based on pre-existing conditions, administration allies are calling attention to how broadly insurers interpret the term to maximize profits.
Newsvine has, over the last two year since I joined, had a large increase in members. This is due to the merger with MSNBC. That was great.
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ANCIENT Egyptian temples were aligned so precisely with astronomical events that people could set their political, economic and religious calendars by them. So finds a study of 650 temples, some dating back to 3000 BC.
British archaeologists said Monday they believe they have solved the ancient mystery of how the giant stone statues on Easter Island acquired distinctive red hats.
The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
If a Newsvine member has been banned, do you think they should be covered by the C of H?
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excerpt: ""What's most noteworthy, perhaps, is that Goldberg's thesis is being used to attack anyone who points out the frequently violent and intimidating behavior of these extremists.
In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Texas for setting a fire that killed his three children. He maintained his innocence until the end. Even those who looked into his case, including the Chicago Tribune, have concluded that he was in fact wrongfully executed.
Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet.
In early August, a protester came to a raucous Tennessee congressional forum packing heat.
The judgment is harsh in a new poll that finds Americans worried about the government taking over health insurance, cutting off treatment to the elderly and giving coverage to illegal immigrants. Harsh, but not based on facts.
Conservatives keep insisting that Obama and his allies want to force end-of-life planning on the elderly, so that it'll be easier to pull the plug on grandma when she gets sick.
Income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression, according to a recently updated paper by University of California, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez.
In the land of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie, it has fallen to a taxidermist to uncover whether foul play is to blame for the corpse found floating in a lake here late last month: Benson, the legendary 52-pound carp whose untimely death has captivated a nation's anglers. …
FOX News has always been the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, willing to twist facts and even lie to promote the Republican agenda.
CNNMoney.com readers describe how President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package has helped them
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As soon as my father's foot crossed the threshold of the room, the storm of mediators immediately rushed to introduce us, but true to form, my father cut right through the thick tension of hurried salutations and offered the Sergeant his hand and joked, "You looked bigger the …
The Fox News pattern of using the Henry Gates arrest as an excuse to make racial attacks on President Barack Obama continued last night (7/30/09) on Hannity. White-rights champion and bigotry-supporting Sean Hannity called on his gal pal uni-thinkers, Kimberly Guilfoyle and S.E.
During the past week, Glenn Beck has put forth a steady stream of race-baiting and race-based fearmongering on his television show and radio program.
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One of the best and brightest of the 'Vine. Keep on keeping on, jdoyle!
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Thanks for all your participation and contribution my friend
Peace be unto you/Sallam alaykum
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Thanks for sharing your insights - keep it up!
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Thank you.
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jdoyle, I think you should change your title block too.
"But, but Iraq ... waa... waa..."— ajs
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I greatly admire your persistence in the face of what I know must be frustrating. Keep fighting the good fight friend!
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You might like the Everyday Citizen blog at www.everydaycitizen.com since you have an interest in both faith and social justice....
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More power to your pen, jdoyle! I admire your passion and commitment to peace. Thank you.
— Djehuty
jdoyle has not published any private articles or seeds that you have access to.
Capuano said yesterday it appears that the orders to subject al-Qaeda terror suspects to waterboarding could be traced to Cheney's office. If so, Capuano said Cheney should be prosecuted.
On their respective radio shows today Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh went on the attack against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) because she voted for advancing the healthcare debate forward in the Senate.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice.
Beck insists his critics are imagining things, that he does not engage in racial fear-mongering, that a string of guests with ties to hate groups do not form a meaningful pattern, and that he's not a racist.
A small group of Ku Klux Klan members want Mississippi students to know that they're fans of the song "From Dixie With Love."
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