Running on Empty

Real solutions to America's crisis go beyond short-term sops like $100 rebates or gas tax relief for consumers.

You Are Not Safe

"One would think, looking at the priorities outlined by the National Asset Database, that the most populated cities, the most critical infrastructure, the most important financial and national security institutions, don't have a lot to worry about from terrorism.

Fallacy: Straw Man

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:

Red Sox or Yankees in AL East?

The Yankees have won eight straight AL East titles and haven't missed the postseason since 1993. But they trail the Red Sox, and one likely will miss the playoffs. Which team might it be?

Film Rolling On Ian Curtis Biopic

Film Rolling On Ian Curtis Biopic Jul 13, 2006 Story by: Amanda Farah

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TIME.com: Toying With Terror Alerts? -- Page 1

n these perilous days, we must be ready to think the unthinkable. No, I don't mean the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, that's all too easy to imagine.

US Army to call reporters in officer's case or Watch What You Say About The Bush

The US Army will call two journalists as witnesses to support charges filed against First Lt. Ehren Watada.

Syd Barrett, troubled co-founder of Pink Floyd, dead at 60

Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60.

Anne Frank diary burning sparks outrage in Germany

BERLIN (Reuters) - The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity.

Howard Zinn : Patriotism and the Fourth of July

In celebration of the Fourth of July there will be many speeches about the young people who "died for their country." But those who gave their lives did not, as they were led to believe, die for their country; they died for their government.

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    Real solutions to America's crisis go beyond short-term sops like $100 rebates or gas tax relief for consumers.

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    "One would think, looking at the priorities outlined by the National Asset Database, that the most populated cities, the most critical infrastructure, the most important financial and national security institutions, don't have a lot to worry about from terrorism.

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    The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:

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