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Is the Twice-Divorced Newt Gingrich Converting to Catholicism for a 2012 Run? By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast A leading Catholic conservative says Newt's sins -- including an affair with a congressional aid -- have magically been absolved. Read more »   A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way -- We've Got to Stop It By William Greider, TheNation.com If Wall Street gets its way, Washington will pass new "reforms" that consolidate power and ratify a corporate state. Read more »   Kids Do the Darndest Things: Joe Biden's Cocaine Dilemma By Tony Newman, AlterNet The allegations about Ashley Biden offer her father a chance to join the millions who challenge the irrationality of our drug laws. Read more »   Top Neocon Max Boot: Obama 'Continuing and Expanding' Bush's Foreign Policy By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet In his latest love letter to Obama, Boot calls his Afghanistan plan "all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for." Read more »   Will the Tanking Economy Ruin Your Sex Life? By Dan Dorfman, Huffington Post Financial turmoil is taking its toll in the bedroom. Read more »   Nickelsville: Seattle's Homeless Name New Tent City After City's Mayor By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! An encampment is made up of over a hundred pink tents and is named to protest Seattle Mayor Greg Nickel's policies around the homeless. Read more »   Merrill Lynch Bonuses Were 22 Times the Size Of AIG's By Megan Slack, Huffington Post Merrill Lynch's bonuses to execs totaled $3.6 billion, one-third of the money they received from the feds' TARP bailout. Read more »   Three Mile Island: Exposing the Government's Cover Up of Our Most Infamous Nuclear Accident By Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet We mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history. Read more »   OMG Gitmo! Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo Bay, Finds it 'Relaxing' 'Calm and Beautiful' By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Dayana Mendoza on the U.S. prison camp: "I didn't want to leave." Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     My Final Day In Afghanistan By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films Being in a dark room in Kabul while being able to post on Facebook and Twitter truly speaks to the connected universe. Read more »   Gen. Petraeus Denies U.S. Torture; Meanwhile Pinochet Judge Launches Criminal Probe of Bush Attorneys By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The six targets named include former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who cold face "immediate arrest" upon entering Spain. Read more »   Sick Around America: Half-Assed Health Insurance Doesn't Work By Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake This infuriates me. And not just because I have a pre-existing condition that would likely have me on the "insurance blacklist." Read more »

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