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Is the Military Ignoring Its Heroin Problem in the Ranks?
Occupy the world's largest heroin producer in Afghanistan and it's no wonder the methadone clinics are overpacked -- but the military is mum on the subject.The U.S. military has known about the problem...
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What You Should Be Watching For This Election
From the battle between moderate Republicans and the teabaggers, to marriage equality legislation, there is hot political action in the voting booths this year.While most of the country remains...
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Why Do Airstrikes in Afghanistan Keep Killing Exactly 30 People?
Pentagon policy from the Rumsfeld days on acceptable kill rates still seems to be the guiding logic for what field commanders are telling the news media.This first appeared onAir America Radio.On...
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Why Does Republican Senate Candidate Scott Brown Hate Rape Victims?
In 2005, Brown pushed to allow doctors and nurses to turn away rape victims from Mass. emergency rooms if they didn't want to give rape victims emergency contraception.This first appeared on Air...
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How Right-Wing Extremist Rick Perry Passes Himself Off As A Regular Guy--And...
While Rick Perry's fringe positions give him status with the far right, his ability to seem like a guy you'd like to have a beer with could win him an election. Texas's Republican governor, Rick Perry,...
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The Roots' Big Bachmann #Fail: 5 Songs They Could Have Used To Snark Her --...
The Roots are famous for their satiric walk-on song picks on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." But it's easy enough to "snark" Michele Bachmann without going super-sexist.This piece originally appeared...
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I Was Sexually Assaulted: The Shocking Reasons My Attacker Didn't Get Prosecuted
"The prosecutors explained to me that I wasn’t a very good victim"I am not a victim of sexual assault.At least, I am not a victim of sexual assault according to the commonwealth ofVirginia. Jesus...
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The Possibility that You Might Get Shot Is a Depressing Fact of American Life
The Virginia shootings are part of a cycle in which innocent people are murdered and politicians get away with doing nothingThe first time I did something about America’s epidemic of mass shootings was...
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