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• Remember when?

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  Writing my column about President Barack Obama’s first year I was looking for some articles about his stop in Bloomington before the Indiana presidential primary. I stumbled across this YouTube video: I remember attending that rally. Everyone in Assembly Hall was pretty excited. The person sitting next to me was so [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:07pm EST
  by Nathan Dixon

• Maine: pot is more important than equal rights

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  The citizens of Maine voted yesterday by 20 percentage points to effectively legalize marijuana. Unfortunately, they also apparently thought that smoking pot was more important than allowing gay people to be able to have the same marriage rights as the rest of the state because they repealed the states already-approved [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:22pm EST
  by Zach Ammerman

• Italy Convicts 23 Americans for Rendition

  An Italian court convicted 23 American intelligence officials of kidnapping in broad daylight a 23 year-old Muslim man that they suspected (incorrectly) of terrorism from the streets of Milan and subsequently sending him to Egyptian authorities (a country known to torture prisoners), where he was then (surprise) tortured. Unfortunately, this is [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by Zach Ammerman

• Breaking News: Glenn Beck Still Alive

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  news from wisconsin: Glenn Beck not burned alive. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  by Matt Straw, IDS Columnist