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Why It MattersIn the end, the Lieberman fight isn't entirely about Lieberman. Yes, people want to see consequences doled out for the perennially back-stabbing Senator who formed his own political party when his own Democratic voters voted him out, who used his committee as a protectorate of the abuses of the B... |
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Animal experimentation: morally acceptable, or just the way things always have been?Following the announcement last week that Oxford University’s controversial Biomedical Sciences building is now complete and will be open for business in mid-2009, the ethical issues surrounding the use of animals for scientific experimentation have been revisited in the media—see, fo... |
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Indiana Libraries Consolidation?Remember this from November 2007: Save our Small Libraries! http://sospl.blogspot.com/ Dear Michael: I want to tell you about my new blog. Aside from the standard issues that Librarians face here in Indiana we have a new one that has the potential for disastrous consequences for small public libr... |
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Spinelessness, as usual [Pharyngula]The Democrats are giving Joe Lieberman everything he wants, and this is symptomatic of the party: they stand for nothing but the status quo and internal accommodation. "Bipartisanship" is a dirty word when one of the two sides is a discredited, corrupt mob of wannabe theocrats and greed... |
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David Kirby: Somali Autism Mom: "We thought America was the last and best stop in this world"When I first wrote about the large number of Somali children with autism in Minneapolis, back in August, I was contacted by a young mother named Idil, who told me she had been trying for more than a year to get Minnesota officials to pay attention to all the sick kids in the local Somali communit... |
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Hank Morris: HoneymoonThe Electoral College hasn't even met yet, but already political speculation has shifted from who won the election to how long President-elect Barack Obama's honeymoon will last. That's a good question. The honeymoon may be sweet, but it won't last for President-elect Obama's whole first term. ... |
