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The Only Republican Plan Is to Destroy Democrats, Not Solve Problems

Republicans want to block Obama and the Democrats from solving national problems, even at the risk of the personal safety of their political opposition. READ MORE

By Robert Parry / Consortium News

ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency, Pass Immigration Reform

A group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the President fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). READ MORE

By Frank Sharry / America’s Voice

Chemicals in the Water Are Bending Genders in Wildlife — Is It Happening to Us, Too?

Endocrine disrupters are still changing the sex of some aquatic organisms, which may continue to find its way into humans later on down the food chain. READ MORE

By Stephen Messenger / TreeHugger

Afghanistan: The World’s Number One Narco-State?

The Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which there is neither an easy end nor an obvious exit. READ MORE

By Alfred W. McCoy / Tomdispatch.com

The Catholic Church’s Dirty Little Secret Is Out: Now What?

Sexual abuse, which was allowed to continue for decades, has burst into the open. Can anything be done to restore the Vatican’s credibility? READ MORE

By Blase Bonpane / New America Media

Daily Show: “It’s Like Health Reform Was Some Sort of Intestinal Blockage for Obama”

AlterNet Staff

Anarchists Versus Teabaggers? Epic Battle on Tax Day

Tana Ganeva

Do You Speak Teabonics? Slideshow Highlights Tea Party Grammar Fails

Byard Duncan

The Bubble Baron Network

Kevin Connor

Why Don’t Militia Members Go Join a Real War?

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As Congress Leaves Jobless in Lurch, Will Grassroots Push for Strong Jobs Bills?

Art Levine

Price of Cheap Easter Eggs? 250,000 Hens Dead in Egg Farm Fire

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CA Banks: Who Are They Working For?

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Don’t let them overturn the ban on whaling

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Unions, Immigrant Labor, And Upward Mobility

The benefits of unionization: Immigrant workers who are able to bargain collectively earn more and are more likely to have benefits associated with good jobs. READ MORE

By Wes Rackley / NewsJunkiePost.com

You Can’t Understand Drug War Bloodbath in Mexico Unless You’re Living It

“Living on the border can cripple a person’s emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day.” READ MORE

By Charles Bowden / High Country News

Immigration Debate: Press One For Culture War In English

Anxiety about immigrants, immigration, and therefore immigration reform, tends to revolve around three broad categories of concern: economics, security, and culture. READ MORE

By Douglas Rivlin / NewsJunkiePost.com

ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency, Pass Immigration Reform

A group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the President fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). READ MORE

By Frank Sharry / America’s Voice

Immigration and the Future of American Innovation: Does America Need to Pump Up the Volume?

The Internet, investing in the green economy and revamping our broken immigration policies could be key ingredients to rejuvenating innovation and pumping up the American economy. READ MORE

By Seth Hoy / Immigration Impact

What Do You Say to a Screaming Bigot?

What do a Glenn Beck fan and an immigrant-rights champion have in common? That’s what Pramila Jayapal asks herself when she goes face to face with right-wing talk-show hosts. READ MORE

By Madeline Ostrander / YES! Magazine

Legendary Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

“Jaime exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time – that inner city students can’t be expected to perform at the highest levels,” said Edward James Olmos. READ MORE

By / Latino Print Network

How a Joint in Your Pocket Could Get You Deported

  Adele Stan

Courage for Immigration Reform

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Minority Opinions on the iPad

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Obama Hits Critics Who Are Rushing to Call Health Care Reform a Failure: ‘It’s Only Been a Week!’

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Why Don’t Militia Members Go Join a Real War?

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Hightower: Wal-Mart and the Essence of the Inhuman Corporation

Think corporations share some of mankind’s key characteristics, like compassion? Think again. As Joseph Casias’ case illustrates, they’re more ruthless than ever. READ MORE

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet

The Three Greatest Pranks of 2010

These pranks employed the most state-of-the-art PR and marketing tools, were engineered by the most pedigreed pranksters on earth. READ MORE

By Andy Bichlbaum, Joseph Huff-Hannon / AlterNet

Obama Expands Offshore Drilling Far Beyond Bush

Obama has unveiled his offshore drilling plans, and to the eyes of the environmentally conscious, it ain’t pretty. READ MORE

By Brian Merchant / TreeHugger

Rare Reversal Against Government Spying — Judge Rules Feds Illegally Wiretapped Islamic Charity

The National Security Agency (NSA) broke the law when it wiretapped Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation’s phones, U.S. District Court ruled Wednesday. READ MORE

By Daniela Perdomo / AlterNet

Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier

We can only transform and love ourselves if we accept both the honorable and shameful aspects of our history and our humanity. READ MORE

By Adrienne Maree Brown / YES! Magazine

Shocking Admission on Killing Civilians by Top US General Almost Completely Ignored by Corporate Media

“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,” says Afghan commander McChrystal. READ MORE

By Rory O’Connor / MediaChannel.org

Banks Could Be Biggest Winners in Obama’s New Foreclosure Plan

The biggest winners in Obama’s latest foreclosure prevention plan are the banks that created this mess. READ MORE

By Amy Goodman, Dean Baker / Democracy Now!

Republican National Committee Can’t Stop Talking About Its Sex Club Bondage Fiasco

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Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal Blamed on Hippies and Gays

Tana Ganeva

Would You Like a Degree From McDonald’s Hamburger University?

Tara Lohan

The Violence of a Recession

ColorLines

Conservative Columnist: Terrorism Lady Gaga’s Fault – Israeli Settlements? Not So Much

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As Congress Leaves Jobless in Lurch, Will Grassroots Push for Strong Jobs Bills?

Art Levine

Madoff in Prison: Beat Up, Hanging with Gangsters, Offering Financial Advice

Daniela Perdomo

Science wins, nobody seems to notice…

Doug Disney

The Long War: America’s Love Affair with the Bogeyman

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Dissident Catholic Bishop Calls for Pope to Resign over Sex Abuse Scandal

Prominent Catholics say the Pope must be ready to answer questions about “the largest institutional crisis in centuries, possibly in church history.” READ MORE

By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Hedges: Is America Yearning for Fascism?

We can laugh at the desperate people who threaten violence against elected officials. But they are not the fools. We are. READ MORE

By Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Moby on Why He Went Vegan and What He Thinks of ‘Conscientious Carnivores’

The author of ‘Gristle’ discusses his biggest food influences, why we should stop subsidizing support factory farms and agribusiness, and why he’s optimistic about the future. READ MORE

By Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Our Government Is Planning to Stay at War for the Next 80 Years — Anyone Got a Problem with That?

Without public debate and without congressional hearings, a segment of the Pentagon and fellow travelers have embraced a doctrine known as the Long War. READ MORE

By Tom Hayden / LA Times

Why I Tried to Put the Cuffs on Karl Rove

We could not allow this war criminal to tout his book around the country and get away with describing anything tied to Bush as courageous. READ MORE

By Jodie Evans / AlterNet

Obama’s Next Major Task: Jobs

We need $300 billion for jobs, and we need it now. READ MORE

By Robert B. Reich / Robert Reich’s Blog

What If Fox News Actually Wants Mob Violence?

Fox News talkers did their best to trivialize the illegal, terrorist threats made against elected officials, and implied they were deserved. READ MORE

By Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America

The $250,000 Joint

A single joint smoked by Amir Varick Amma cost him an additional 5 years in prison, and taxpayers roughly $250,000. READ MORE

By Anthony Papa / AlterNet

Conservative Conspiracy Fearmongering to Cost GOP Seats?

Tana Ganeva

Priests & Pedophilia: What Authoritarian Religion, Families & Schools Have Wrought

Tikkun Daily

Hey, Tea Partiers and Catholic Faithful: Blind Trust Just Isn’t Enough – Try Looking at Facts

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French President Sarkozy: “Welcome to the Club of States Who Don’t Turn Their Back on the Sick and the Poor.”

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When Teenagers Seek Abortion Care: 5 Myths Exposed

RH Reality Check

Jon Stewart Takes on the Right’s Violent, Post-Health Care Hysteria

AlterNet Staff

USA Today: 52% Still Want Public Option in Health Care

Adele Stan

Who is more of a threat? Some idiot on Youtube, or an armed Christianist Militia?

Doug Disney

Ricky Martin answers Barbara Walters’ homosexuality question a decade later

Robert Crook

True Patriots: Tea Bag Leaders Say They Want to Abolish Social Security

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Obama Signs Breakthrough Student Loan Legislation That Will Impact Lives of Millions

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Conservative Conspiracy Fearmongering to Cost GOP Seats?

Tana Ganeva

Thanks Health Bill for the $250 Million Back to Abstinence-Only Education

Ellen Friedrichs

Priests & Pedophilia: What Authoritarian Religion, Families & Schools Have Wrought

Tikkun Daily

Hey, Tea Partiers and Catholic Faithful: Blind Trust Just Isn’t Enough – Try Looking at Facts

lauraflanders

French President Sarkozy: “Welcome to the Club of States Who Don’t Turn Their Back on the Sick and the Poor.”

zaidjilani

When Teenagers Seek Abortion Care: 5 Myths Exposed

RH Reality Check

Jon Stewart Takes on the Right’s Violent, Post-Health Care Hysteria

AlterNet Staff

USA Today: 52% Still Want Public Option in Health Care

Adele Stan

No Charges Filed Yet in Dairy Atrocity Seen on Nightline

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Who is more of a threat? Some idiot on Youtube, or an armed Christianist Militia?

Doug Disney

Rambo in Reverse: The Dangerous Fantasies of the Huratee Losers

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Ricky Martin answers Barbara Walters’ homosexuality question a decade later

Robert Crook

Health-Care Reform More Popular After Passage than Before

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