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Laughing off the horrors of prison rape
feature In our culture, there
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Stop whining and pay your taxes
feature 'Tis the season
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Sean Penn and other 'useful idiots'
feature Back in the days of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin referred to sympathetic foreigners as
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Why we need a day without music
feature Imagine, for just one day, turning off the insipid music constantly playing in airports, supermarkets, department stores, and restaurants, said Kevin Berger. It would be such a relief to eat a meal or visit the Jiffy Lube waiting area without hearing. . .
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Why a college education is overrated
feature High school students who show no aptitude for academics are better off earning a career-oriented associate degree, joining the military, or enrolling in job-training programs, said Marty Nemko in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Quote of the week: Former Vice President Dick Cheney
feature From a speech at the National Press Club: "“As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to ...
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We need a new national anthem
feature “Anything would be better than those ‘bombs bursting in air,’” especially since they usually arrive off-key, said Michael Kinsley in The Washington Post.
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The selling of Dr. King’s message
feature For years, Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving four children have shamelessly mined their father’s image for private profit, said Jonathan Turley in the Los Angeles Times.
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The GOP’s do-nothing agenda
feature When President Obama gave his health-care address to Congress last week, Republican legislators waved copies of their own health-care bill at him, said Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune.
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How I became a Twitter quitter
feature Twitter, in fact, reminds me of a “lightning-fast tattooed bike messenger who never brings a package worth opening,” said Melissa Dribben in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Big Pharma’s health-care extortion
feature The White House has already sold out to Big Pharma, said Robert Reich in Salon.com.
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When love is just another commodity
feature The old courtship narrative has been fundamentally altered by texting and vast, virtual networks, said David Brooks in The New York Times.
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Why infidelity is on the rise
feature Among young marrieds, there’s a lot of cheatin’ going on, said Naomi Schaefer Riley in The Washington Post, and the reason can be traced to habits in past relationships and maintaining opposite-sex frien
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The price we paid for torture
feature A former U.S. military interrogator in Iraq says it isn't necessary to use torture to extract information from hardened terrorists; it instills foreign jihadists with a desire for revenge and costs the lives of American soldiers.
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