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Tip your cap to LindainLasVegas and her YouTube video – “What Breast Cancer is Not” (shown below).  This courageous woman talks for 4+ minutes to camera and shows all of us why this political football needs to stop being tossed around at her and other women’s expense. Cancer takes lives, does not discriminate and has no [...] Read Full Story

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Saturday, 05 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @estr4ng3d‎ The revolution’s biggest obstacle now is not #Mubarak. It’s the ignorance 30 years of his [...] Read Full Story

by Cora Currier, ProPublica Earlier this week, ProPublica and NPR detailed how Freddie Mac placed bets against homeowners that paid off if borrowers were unable to refinance their mortgage loans. The story highlighted the conflicted role of the huge and now government-controlled Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: They are supposed to maximize their profits and thus pay back taxpayers, while [...] Read Full Story

Until this week, Europeans had been enjoying an unusually mild winter with spring-like temperatures in many cities. Scientists say a string of freezing European winters, scattered over the last decade, has been driven in large part by global warming. The recent week-long cold wave, with temperatures plunging as low as minus 32 degrees Celsius, has [...] Read Full Story

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Friday, 04 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @nolanjazeera‎ And I told the protestors holding on for dear life in Tahrir last nite [...] Read Full Story

by Michael Grabell, ProPublica A group of five Republican and Democratic senators on the homeland security committee introduced a bill today that would require an independent health study of the X-ray body scanners used in airports nationwide. We have been reporting on the cancer risk associated with the Transportation Security Administration’s scanners and on the expansion of X-ray equipment at the border, in prisons and [...] Read Full Story

Over the last few weeks, Republican Party presidential nominee, Newt Gingrich, has found a way to make himself relevant again. Not to the Republican Party, because they are trying to find a way to sink him. Newt has become relevant to the always dysfunctional (and uncomfortable) race discourse in this nation. This time around, Newt [...] Read Full Story

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Thursday, 03 February 2011 Tweet of the Day: @KeithOlbermann‎ Look out window, Hoz, its chaos NOW RT @BreakingNews Mubarak tells ABC News: ‘If I [...] Read Full Story

One of the few things Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich agree on is that President Obama is turning America into “European-style welfare culture.” In his standard stump speech Romney charges Obama with creating a nation of dependents. “Over the past three years Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an entitlement society.” Gingrich [...] Read Full Story

President Obama will receive great credit from historians and many voters in November for his triumph reviving the American auto industry, and making “Made in America” a badge of honor for this key sector of the national economy. It is a useful moment to consider the career of a great man, former Michigan governor and [...] Read Full Story