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Salon's War Room

War Room
• Sharron Angle denies saying things she said
• Job discrimination claims by Muslims on the rise
• Pastor Terry Jones: P.R. visionary
• A tale of two Tea Partiers
• Insurers blame rate rises on Obamacare
• Arizona Green Party wants "fake" candidates off ballot
• Republicans flunk government shutdown history
• Obama won't back Bush tax cut extension for rich
• Tuesday link dump: Chicago tribulations
• CNN introduces show with opinionated former politician and lady
• Anti-Obama protester violently wrestled to the ground in Alaska
• Will Rahm Emanuel run for mayor of Chicago?
• Bob Woodward's Obama book: Will it be as bad as its cover?
• Meet the newest Reagan Revisionism Hall of Fame inductee
• New Republic owner Marty Peretz sick of pretending Muslims "are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment"
• Fringe 9/11 church pastor opposes even fringier Quran-burning pastor
• The revolution the South forgot
• Ground zero church launches with anti-Muslim, anti-Mormon sermon
• The most important race you don't know about -- yet
• Friday link dump: Empowering people

Washington Post: OpEd

washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns

• Will 2010 midterms be 1994 all over again?
• Obama vs. Boehner
• Democats, on the run from Republicanines
• The harsh math behind Obama's tax-cut pledge
• A tax cut we need -- but won't get
• Gov. Barbour's civil rights fairy tale
• In Europe, it's no longer East vs. West
• Even if peace talks fail, Palestine's independence is inevitable
• Obama's shrinking presidency
• A speech from the Far Side: What our enemies heard
• Finding a way out of Afghanistan

StarTribune: Opinion

Yahoo Opinion/Editorial

Yahoo! News: Opinion

• Is the GOP ready for prime time? (The Week)
• Florida Sept. 11 Koran-Burning Plan Spurs Debate (The Atlantic Wire)
• Will Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Seek Vengeance on HP at His New Job? (The Atlantic Wire)
• A bank bailout for Afghanistan? (The Week)
• How Old School Is George Clooney's 'The American'? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Why Are the Feds Suing Brash Arizona Sheriff? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Obama's new infrastructure plan: By the numbers (The Week)
• The Skinny on Google Instant (The Atlantic Wire)
• Newt's Faint Presidential Prospects (RealClearPolitics.com)
• Obama must not let Taliban rule over Afghan women again (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Schneiderman for Attorney General (The Nation)
• D.C. SCHOOLS CONTROVERSY SHOWS IT'S HARD TO SHAKE THINGS UP (Cynthia Tucker)
• MEXICO SEETHES WITH CHAOS AS WE FIGHT ABROAD (Georgie Anne Geyer)
• 'We must do better' in combating mass rape in Congo (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Who Is Terry Jones? (Huffington Post)
• What Ever Happened to Equal Rights for Women? (Huffington Post)
• Bloggers Respond to Imam Feisal Rauf's NYT Op-Ed (The Atlantic Wire)
• Are Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Cashing in on 9/11? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Happy Hour Vid: WSJ vs. NYT as Taiwanese Cartoon (The Atlantic Wire)
• What Happens If We Just Let the Housing Market Crash? (The Atlantic Wire)

Anorak

Anorak News
• Guy Ritchie And Naked Jude Law Create The Worst Perfume Advert Ever
• Video: Andy Coulson And The New York Newspapers Wars
• Florida Wonk Charlie Crist’s Demonic Rat Crap Lube
• Beautiful Photographs Of Soy Sauce And Other Small Things: A Gallery
• Video Invite To The Burn A Koran Day Jesus-Mo Smack Down And Gay Spit Roast!
• Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival – Bottom Of The Mornin’
• Larissa Riquelme Naked In 3D (NSFW)
• In Photos: Playboy Pumper’s Kendra Wilkinson’s New Breasts
• Wayne Rooney And Rebecca Hayes’ No Sex Stag Night: Photos
• Champion Budgie Penmead Pride Stamped To Death In Cornwall – Facebook Erupts
• Chicken Gives Birth To Penis: Photo
• The Goldfish That Weighs As Much As Edward Nino Hernandez In His Boots
• When Jedward Met Tony Blair
• Andy Coulson: D-Listers, Bad Losers And No Marks Demand To Know Why NoTW Did Not Hack Their Phones
• Big Brother’s Josie Gibson And John James Sign Six Months’ Contract
• Canadian Drivers Encouraged To Kill Schoolgirl In Sick Video Game
• Bad Police Sergeant Mark Andrews Jailed For Attack On Pamela Somerville
• Hilarious Video: Aboard The Pacific Sun Cruise Liner In Heavy Seas
• Tongue Tattoos – A Gallery That Says So Much
• Koran Burning Pastor Terry Jones And ‘Niggers’ Torching The US Flag
• Wayne Rooney’s Women – Alleged
• In Photos: Helen Wood And Jennifer Thompson Lesbian Show For Wayne Rooney
• Tabloids Link Wayne Rooney’s Alleged Shag Jennifer Thompson To Ashley Cole
• GQ Men Of The Year Awards Are All About The Women (In Photos)
• Jeffrey York Is America’s Josef Fritzl? Photos

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A new word is presented every day with its definition and example sentences from actual published works.

• gerrymander: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

gerrymander: the dividing of an area into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while reducing the strength of the othe

Quotes of the Day

Quotes of the Day

Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page

• Paul Valery

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

• A. J. Liebling

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."

• Will Rogers

"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators."

• G. K. Chesterton

"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."

• Philip G. Hamerton

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

• James Thurber

"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."

• Charles M. Schulz

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

• Alfred North Whitehead

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

• Dalton Camp

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."

• Arthur Schopenhauer

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

• Hubert H. Humphrey

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

NY Times Opinion

NYT > Opinion
• Editorial: Alms for the Rich and Powerful

Gifts to charities set up by lawmakers have become a popular way to curry favor on Capitol Hill. But these “donations” need to be fully disclosed and strictly limited.

• Editorial: Forced Labor

The Justice Department has brought the largest human-trafficking case ever against a Los Angeles company. The accusations are disturbingly familiar.

• Editorial: Reforming Meat

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants to create competition in the meatpacking industry. We want him to go further.

• Op-Ed Contributor: Keeping Track of the Kids

It may seem innocuous to attach chips to our preschoolers’ clothes. But do we really want to raise a generation of kids that are accustomed to being tracked?

• Letters: Back to School: Grading the Teacher

Readers respond to an article about the value-added formula to evaluate teachers.

• Letters: The Democrats’ Strategy

Readers respond to an article about how the Democrats will stop giving funds to the party’s most endangered incumbents.

• Letter: Uses for the O.E.D.

A reader responds to an editorial about the putting the Oxford English Dictionary online only.

• Letter: A Preference for Print

A reader responds to an article about how the book business is trying to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.

• Letter: Goodbye, and Hello

A reader responds to a letter about children going off to college.

• Letter: Our Oil Addiction

A reader responds to an article about the dangers of offshore drilling.

• Op-Ed Columnist: Saudi Time

A Middle East peace plan from King Abdullah has been floating out there in the ether for years now. It’s time to bring it out of the air.

• Op-Ed Columnist: Lincoln’s Forgotten Fort

Fort Stevens in Washington is an endangered battlefield. Coming to a historical site near you: Wal-Marts and Gen. Robert E. Lee slot machines.

• Op-Ed Contributor: Weird Weather in a Warming World

Though today’s extreme weather can’t be reliably attributed to the greenhouse effect, it does give us the feel of what’s to come if emissions are not reined in.

• Op-Ed Contributor: Building on Faith

Why, despite the controversy, plans will proceed for building an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan.

• Experiments in Philosophy

How can scientific experiments possibly help us to answer the traditional questions of philosophy?

• War and the City: The Gyre

The second of a five-part memoir chronicling an Iraq war veteran's passage from youth to soldier to civilian writer.

• Mystery and Evidence

Is it realistic to expect religion to satisfy the demands of science?

• Copy That: A Response

The author answers critics of her theory of "temes," a "third replicator" in the evolutionary process.

• Wall Street's Still-Warped Incentives

An exchange with Senator Carl Levin about Goldman Sachs and the new financial reform law.

• Rooms Worth Keeping

What draws museum visitors to carefully preserved period rooms?

• Extreme Weather in a Warming World

Debates over the human element in recent weather calamities are a distraction from climate realities.

• In Earthquakes, Poverty, Population and Motion Matter

Why the New Zealand earthquake, a tad stronger than the Haitian disaster, had a relatively minor impact.

• Labor (Less) Day?

Is working less the only way to get more people working?

• Yesbuttery

Portmanteau term denoting agreement tempered by a contrary view.

• Mercury is in Retrograde

This weekend, co-vocabularists have generously shared the excuses they have used, overheard or been offered.

• Daily Lexeme: Marigenous

Produced in or by the sea.

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The Morning News

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An online magazine published weekdays since 1999.

• September 8, 2010 [Afternoon Edition]