Recent Votes

• Ron Paul warns of 'soft fascism' taking over America

  Source: Raw Story

  Mentioning a documentary entitled "Freedom to Fascism," Paul responds, "We're not moving toward Hitler-type fascism, but we're moving toward a softer fascism: Loss of civil liberties, corporations running the show, big government in bed with big business.

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• Is Theory of Origin of the Universe Wrong?

  Source: Science: Current Issue

  The findings--presented here at a cosmology conference this week--are still preliminary, but if confirmed, they could change cosmologists' understanding of the moments immediately after the big bang.

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• Hoover Planned Mass Jailing of "Disloyal" Amerciancs in 1950

  Source: The New York Times

  A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

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• Man Waterboards Self

  Source: The Straight Dope

  From the Striaght Dope message boards, so take it for what it's worth. If true, a HIGHLY trained individual waterboards himself. Results in article...

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• Tom Hanks Tells Hollywood Whopper in 'Charlie Wilson's War'

  Source: AlterNet.org

  In the latter half of the movie, there is one big lie and one item of anti-Afghan propaganda. The lie is that U.S. support to the mujahiddin went only to the faction led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Afghan leader who was assassinated on Sept. 9, 2001. I spoke with Rep.

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