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- Boys of Summer by Daniel Flynn, City Journal
  Posted by HansGruen
  Backing a major-party candidate for president would have been anathema to Michael Klonsky 40 summers ago, when the organization he led, Students for a Democratic Society, urged young people to spurn elections. "By '68, our line was 'Vote in the Streets,'" Klonsky told me last spring. "We thought we had to fight with Eugene McCarthy and those people." In August 1968, protesters clashed with police outside the Democratic Party's national convention in Chicago-but far from being political innocents who took to the streets to protest Vietnam War hawks' capture of the Democratic presidential nomination, many of them never supported antiwar candidates McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. ...
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- On opting out of Public Financing: Pennies for Votes | The Agonist
  Posted by Villagenyc from Agonist
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  Until we as a nation begin to aggressively address the growing influence that money has had in politics, we will continue to witness the political pollution that money buys on an increasingly grand scale.
  
  http://agonist.org/cody_lyon/20080621/on_opting_out_of_public_financing_pennies_for_votes
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- Poisonous Plutocracy Pushes Economic Inequality
  Posted by statusquobuster from OpEdNews
  Americans must wake up and stop voting for the two-party plutocracy that is harming them.
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- Religious leaders playing for harmony during Euro 2008
  Posted by slicely
  Religious leaders of various faiths are joining forces with politicians from across the spectrum to promote a peaceful and harmonious European championship.
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- Political Cortex: Gym Pundits Worry About Obama Nomination
  Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex
  When seeking to challenge his Obama friend, he asked him about the lopsided Clinton victory in West Virginia and the other wins in Pennsylvania and places like Ohio, places in America where progressives have work to do and trust to win, where aggressive attempts to prove to the economically disenfranchised or higher education denied and affordable universal health care starved people that government can do good things for people, the Obama supporter cut deep.
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- 2008 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole (Photos and Video) | Bitten and Bound
  Posted by bittenandbound
  22-year-old Jayde Nicole is a Canadian model who began modeling for catalogs and fashion shows at age six. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 2007, and IsThisHappening.com has exclusively revealed that she will be featured in the June 2008 issue as Playmate of the Year.
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- Miss England Bikini Photos including Chloe Marshall Size 16
  Posted by gmc1
  The Miss England contestants have assembled in London for their first group photo shoot. They donned bikinis and put on their smiles. Same old same old you say? Not this year. One contestant, Miss Surrey 2008, is 16 year old Chloe Marshall. The sweet teen is a size 16, which has brought a whole new meaning to curvy amid a field of super skinny young women.
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