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40 Million Nonbelievers in America? The Secret Is Almost Out By Ronald Aronson, Religion Dispatches Secularists have very quietly become one of America's largest minorities -- how long before they use their power? Read more »   GOP Has Hit the Dead-End of Politics: Who's Going to Buy Their Fear and Hysteria? By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com What sort of psychological bent would lead people to want to be part of a dead-end political party like the GOP has become? Read more »   Are We So Addicted to Meat That We Can't See Where the Swine Flu Came From? By Kathy Freston, AlterNet A virus like swine flu is a completely predictable outcome of our cruel and appallingly filthy factory farming systems. Read more »   Saving Death Row Inmate Troy Davis's Life Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week By Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet Troy Davis faces execution for murdering a Police Officer, despite that 7 out of 9 witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony. Read more »   Outsourcing the Bosses: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler By Dean Baker, AlterNet What the new Chrysler will be getting from abroad is technology and top management. Read more »   Dems About to Pass the Filibuster Barrier, But Why Should Having 60 Votes Matter? By Roy Ulrich, AlterNet The word filibuster doesn't appear in any of our founding documents. How on earth did this take control of the legislative process? Read more »   The Wholesale Sedation of America's Youth By Andrew M. Weiss, Skeptical Inquirer Eight million kids today have been diagnosed with mental disorders, and most receive some form of medication. Is this child abuse? Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     'Body Language Expert' on CNN: Condi 'Mopped Up' Student Who Confronted Her on Torture; 'Wish I Could High-Five Condi For That' By Liliana Segura, AlterNet "It's like confronting the Webster dictionary on a word," Janine Driver told Roland Martin. "You can't beat Condoleezza Rice. She is awesome." Read more »   The Most Racist Comments About Mexicans Ever Allowed On-Air By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks Jay Severin's insanely racist rant -- and what you can do about it. Read more »   Is Sarah Palin Violating Ethics Rules (Again)? By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Is is legal for Governor Palin to back the parental consent ballot initiative? Read more »   White House: We Can't Save Newspapers By Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post Gibbs on newspaper bailout: "I don't know what, in all honesty, government can do about it." Read more »

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