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If This Doesn't Violate the Clean Water Act, What Would?
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| By Dan Shapley | The Daily Green | Jul. 2, 2008
Start with a pristine mountain lake in the Alaskan wilderness. Add toxic waste. Kill all the fish. Wipe the lake off the map. Bad for that lake, yes. But is it pollution? The seemingly obvious answer to that question (umm, yes?) is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this winter. Read
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Reviews How Terrorism Paranoia Killed 1,600 Americans in 2002
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| By Jane Bosveld | Discover | Jun. 30, 2008
Widespread fear after 9/11 pushed people from (safe) planes to (dangerous) cars. In the aftermath of 9/11, many Americans were so afraid of flying that they chose to drive instead. That decision, based on the perceived threat of another airliner hijacking, led to 1,600 casualties in the following year. The families of the people who died in those crashes thought they had lost them to “the routine traffic accidents we accept as the regrettable cost of living in the modern world.” Daniel Gardner begs to differ: What killed them was fear. Read
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Something Big is Going On
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| By Dr. Ron Paul | Campaign for Liberty | Jul. 3, 2008
The following statement is written by Congressman Paul about the pending financial disaster. He will introduce this statement as a special order and insert it into the Congressional Record next week. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to debut it first on the Campaign for Liberty blog. It reads as follows: Read
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9/11 Illnesses Get Worse
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| By Susan Edelman | NY Post | jul. 2, 2008
Of 10,000 Ground Zero workers suing the city, medical records show 67 percent suffer respiratory ailments and 45 percent have a gastrointestinal disease, their lawyers claim. Read
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The Democratic National Convention Looks Like A Good Place Not To Be
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| By Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net | Jul. 1, 2008
We Are Change Colorado has now become aware that another group, Unconventional Action, is planning on being violent at the DNC protests. Violence is a broad term. Some argue that property damage is violent, others might tell you it sends a message. To most of the Truth Alliance and We Are Change Colorado activists, there is no message to property damage and is in fact, a form of violent behavior. In the eyes of the law, property damage is completely, without debate, illegal. Read
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Half of US Gun Deaths are Suicides
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| By Mike Stobbe | Time.com| Jun. 30, 2008
The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves. Read
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U.S. Charges Guantanamo Detainee in USS Cole Bombing
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| By Josh White | Washington Post | Jun. 30, 2008
U.S. military prosecutors today charged a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with murder and other crimes for allegedly planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, a bombing that killed 17 U.S. service members and raised the profile of the al Qaeda terrorist network less than a year before its Sept. 11, 2001 strikes.
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Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law
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| By Patrick Radden Keefe | Slate | Jun. 25, 2008
Why it's a lot worse than you think. Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance law since the Watergate era. Unless you're a government lawyer, a legal scholar, a masochist, or an insomniac, chances are you haven't read the 114-page bill. Don't beat yourself up: Neither have most of the 293 House members who voted for it last week. Ditto the mainstream press, who seem to have relied chiefly on summaries provided by the same lawmakers who hadn't read it. Read
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African Union Summit Welcomes Mugabe, Shuns Zimbabwe Crisis
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| By Carole Gombakomba, Irwin Chifera & Patience Rusere | VOA News | Jun. 30, 2008
Heads of state and government of the African Union disappointed hopes among international observers and Western governments that they would take President Robert Mugabe to task for his re-election in a ballot widely seen as illegitimate and his inauguration at top speed. Read
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