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Armed Revolt in the Obama Era? Right-Wing Gun Nuts Share Their Paranoid Worldview By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast Gun show enthusiasts make it abundantly clear why they're stocking up on firepower. Read more »   Super Prude Prosecutors Charge Teenagers with Pornography and Worse For Sexy Text Messages By JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation Sending a nude or semi-nude picture to a friend's cell phone is apparently a crime -- if you're a teen. Read more »   What's Behind the Epidemic of Family-Killings? Could it Be Anti-Depressants? By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Economic stress is usually blamed, but a bunch of government-approved psychoactive drugs have proven homicidal and suicidal side effects. Read more »   GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx Dishonored Matthew Shepard's Death, Saying it Was a Hoax By Jeffrey Gantz, Raw Story Rep. Virginia Foxx said Matthew Sheppard was murdered in an attempted "robbery." Read more »   Don't Be Fooled by the Taliban Hysteria in Pakistan: They Aren't Going to Take Over By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times The fear being stoked of Taliban taking over nuclear-armed Pakistan are a ruse to legitimize Obama's expanding Af-Pak war. Read more »   Is Arlen Specter the Democrats' Magic Bullet? By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate It all depends on how Democrats use him. Read more »   Farms Race: The Obama's White House Garden Has Given Fire to an International Movement By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet The first garden has spurred a race to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     MoveOn Calls for Bybee Impeachment By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress MoveOn released a video today calling for the impeachment of Jay Bybee. Read more »   Memo to the Media: Obama Did Not Invent 'Yes We Can' By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The corporate news claims Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "co-opting" Obama's election slogan. But it was never his to begin with. Read more »   British Iraq "Withdrawal" a Microcosm of Obama's Bad Iraq Policy By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports Britain ends 'combat operations' in Iraq, but, taking a cue from the U.S., London is escalating its neoliberal economic efforts and military training. Read more »   Rice Channels Nixon: Since the President Authorized Torture, That Makes It Legal By Ali Frick, Think Progress Watch Rice attempt to hide her central role in approving torture. Read more »

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