BBC NEWS | Americas | Republican ties to murky lobbyist

Seeded on Thu Sep 4, 2008 10:20 PM EDT (BBC News)

John McCain has made a point of stressing his 'maverick' status...turns out that he wasn't full of it.

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Plan Would Shift Forces From Iraq to Afghanistan - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Thu Sep 4, 2008 10:10 PM EDT (The New York Times)

I thought this might be worthy of discussion...

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Israeli woman refuses ultra-Orthodox dictate to move to back of bus - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Sun Dec 18, 2011
- Funny enough, 'Crooks, that was the very first thought that popped into my head! "Looks like somebody hijacked Doc's DeLorean and went back to the '60s!"
Israeli woman refuses ultra-Orthodox dictate to move to back of bus - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Sun Dec 18, 2011
- How can it be right, legally or morally, to subject anyone to second-class citizenship this way? Didn't we fight this battle already? BTW...way to slip in a tip-o-the-hat to one of the classic comedies of all time!
Painted 3-D optical illusion of little girl running into street aims to slow drivers
Fri Sep 3, 2010
- If the idea is to get people to slow down, there are any number of time-tested ideas that don't involve making people think that they're about to injure or kill a child.
This Just In....I Am Newly Employed....Someone Pinch Me!
Mon Aug 16, 2010
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Scientists suggest fresh look at psychedelic drugs
Wed Aug 18, 2010
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Really Simple: We Need to Get Rid of the Perverse Notion of "Corporate Personhood"
Fri Jan 22, 2010
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Really Simple: We Need to Get Rid of the Perverse Notion of "Corporate Personhood"
Fri Jan 22, 2010
- ...but before the threw that precedent out, he strangled it, poisoned it and then shot it in the head.
An Old Question, But Worth Revisiting: Flag Burning, Okay or Not?
Thu Dec 17, 2009
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Wed Dec 9, 2009
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Israeli woman refuses ultra-Orthodox dictate to move to back of bus - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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A woman passenger on a public bus from Ashdod to Jerusalem Friday was told by an ultra-Orthodox male passenger to move to the back of the bus.
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