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Color, Controversy and DNA
Posted by Shemuses
A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.
The political lessons of the American Axle strike
Posted by Sandyenglish
American Axle workers began to return to work earlier this week, after the end of a three-month walkout in Michigan and New York. The struggle-one of the longest walkouts in the auto industry in decades-ended in a bitter defeat for the workers.
Gary Younge: Clinton has run her campaign the same way Bush has run the country
Posted by senselessthing from Guardian UK
It has become increasingly apparent that Hillary Clinton has run a campaign sustained by cynicism, divisiveness and fear-mongering with the same contempt for intelligence, decency and democracy that Bush has run the country.
Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO)
Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.
Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Posted by theangryindian from Live Science
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
Clinton Campaign Done in By Black Voters
Posted by Jeff
This will be history's verdict: in the end, the Clintons were defeated not by Republicans, but by African-American Democrats. How wonderful. How poignant. In the end, the karma gets you. Maybe it had to be this way. But this final coup de grace against these awful, hollow, cynical people is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Jimmy Carter: Pariah Diplomacy
Posted by Jeff from Truth Out
Through more official consultations with these outlawed leaders, it may yet be possible to revive and expedite the stalemated peace talks between Israel and its neighbors. In the Middle East, as in Nepal, the path to peace lies in negotiation, not in isolation.
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