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• Confessions of Republican Convention Security Guard view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • about 6 hours ago
  • (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feat...)

  From sushi-scarfing Secret Servicemen to drunken Sarah-Palin lust, witness the underside of the Republican shindig.

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• European spacecraft flys by asteroid, camera stops view story

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  • Submitted by s_lockyer
  • about 13 hours ago
  • (http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/sci...)

  The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass.

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• Take The Quiz: Palin or Bush? view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • 1 day ago
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  See if you know your Hockey Mom from your Shrub

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• So Much Misery, So Little Time... view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • 1 day ago
  • (http://www.salon.com/books/review...)

  Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it.

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• McCain: No, Really, We Vetted Her! And I Met Her Once... view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • 3 days ago
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  A few hours before dawn Tuesday, the Intrade predictions market started taking bets on a new proposition: that Sarah Palin would drop off the Republican ticket before the election. Speculators started buying a few hours later; by mid-afternoon, nearly 2,0

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• An analogy of the Iraq War view story

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  • Submitted by troyforlife
  • 4 days ago
  • (http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/...)

  Iraq: A brief parable.

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• August 31Opus | Salon Comics view story

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  • Submitted by ron8588
  • 5 days ago
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  August 31st Opus

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• Drivers rely on OnStar to evade Hurricane Gustav view story

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  • Submitted by s_lockyer
  • 5 days ago
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  As more than 2 million people tried to outrun the deadly storm, General Motors Corp.'s OnStar beefed up its staff to around 500 and put emergency plans in place at three call centers.

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• Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors in Minneapolis view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • 6 days ago
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  Glenn Greenwald, New York Times bestselling author and former constitutional law and civil rights litigator, shares opinions through his political blog.

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• This Place Is The Bomb: Cold War Nuke Sites Overflow With Nature view story

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  • Submitted by VioletPlanet
  • 6 days ago
  • (http://www.salon.com/env/feature/...)

  What can be found in abundance, however, is nature. In the intervening decades since the era of nuclear-weapons testing, the natural world has quietly rebounded. Today, Christmas Island, Bikini Atoll and other Cold War proving grounds, like Monte Bello no

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