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"As to date, the M.O.D. is not aware of any evidence which might substantiate the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, the matter of abduction by ‘aliens' remains a nonissue as far as the M.O.D. is concerned."

The health-care mess isn't merely the unintentional result of political dysfunction, in other words.It is also the deliberate consequence of the way in which American policymakers have come to think about insurance.

The Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.

"At the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading."

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Blair idiot not liar, says Blair.

But Chinese boys now outnumber Chinese girls by the millions, and the impact of the lopsided sex imbalance is starting to spill beyond China's borders.

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[Given that it took at least four days after the earthquake before the U.S. military permitted relief supplies to land at the Port-au-Prince airport, turned away planes from such NGOs as Doctors Without Borders, and that Defense Secretary Robert Gates refused to release aid until a full week had passed, one can hardly call the deployment of 10,000 troops a relief operation.]

Obama has brought change, says one of Obama's employees.

The "common sense"-the unschooled instincts imparted by upbringing and inherited ideology-of people in this country is individualist and self-reliant. That common sense has become increasingly dysfunctional. [Includes a photo of Our President bravely facing down one of those fat cat bankers he's going after now.]

The immediate reason the word Negro is on the Census is simple enough: in the 2000 Census, more than 56,000 people wrote in Negro to describe their identity — even though it was already on the form. Some people, it seems, still strongly identify with the term, which used to be a perfectly polite designation.

Because nothing says Christian Crusade like Biblical codes on gun sights.

How did Haiti get so poor? Despite a century of American colonialism, occupation, and propping up corrupt dictators? Even though the CIA staged coups d'état against every democratically elected president they ever had?

Remember when TSA said that full-body imagers "couldn't" store or distribute pics of your nekkid bod, could help thwart terrorism, and are harmless? Yeah, about all that.

The president has reportedly eschewed the supplementary Mellencamp Little Pink Housing Index used during the Reagan administration, as economists now widely believe it conveys a derivative, shallow view of the American fiscal landscape.

About six million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income, according to an analysis of state data collected by The New York Times. In declarations that states verify and the federal government audits, they described themselves as unemployed and receiving no cash aid - no welfare, no unemployment insurance, and no pensions, child support or disability pay.

The long-anticipated National Archives release of the secrets of the John F. Kennedy assassination show that a conspiracy did, in fact, exist, that two shooters were involved in the death of the mop-haired leader, and that all of the conspiracy theories had it wrong.