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• Why the Greens Aren’t Very Green
• Bush ordered spying on American citizens :: The New York Times said Mr Bush signed a secret presidential order following the attacks on 11 September 2001, allowing the NSA, based at Fort Meade, Maryland, to track the international telephone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people without referral to the courts.
• It’s Odeo! Not it’s Multikino
• Morgan Freemon on Black History Month :: “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” Freeman asks Wallace. After noting there is no “white history month,” he says, “I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history,” he tells Wallace.
• How the original King Kong was made
• Wikipedia equals Enclyclopedia Brittanica in quality?
• Estonia vs. the United States? :: Estonia is holding its own…
• Ten Steps to Turn Around Wal-Mart :: Wal-Mart has offered a classic case of corporate denial, with management refusing to pay heed even as its stock has dropped more than 25% since Lee Scott became its CEO in 2000. But as of very recently, it does seem as though some folks at the top have are in fact paying attention, a sudden arousal triggered by a perfect image storm: The documentary The High Cost of Low Prices, a leaked and magnificently callous internal health-care memorandum, and the chronic jabbing of activist groups like Wake Up Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart Watch. The company is responding with an ill-conceived blast of defensiveness — in their mind it’s a long-overdue gust of truth-telling — that will eventually be memorialized as a business-school case of strategic and communication blundering; their Iraq.
• Even Healthy Churches Need to Change
• GOP leadership calls for ethics refresher :: Frightening thought that congressional leaders need to be taught ethics :: House Republicans have been reluctant to discuss ethics for fear of feeding Democratic attacks. Mr. Hastert and other top leaders said little about Mr. Cunningham until Monday, when his resignation was formally submitted to the House. But the speaker and others then took a hard line, saying Mr. Cunningham had strayed too far.
• Coming to America :: From Sen. Barack Obama :: If we hope to bring the 11 million undocumented immigrants out into the open, we must give them a reason. This means granting them an interim legal status to work with the opportunity to eventually earn citizenship. We can do this, without amnesty, by imposing a hefty fine for having illegally entered our country, and by forcing the undocumented to go to the back of the line in their pursuit of citizenship. The interim status should only apply to those already here, so as not to open the door for others.
• TDH Strategies has this 2003 quote from then Finance Minister Paul Martin, “Our bilateral relations must be conducted on a far more sophisticated basis than they have been to date. We must engage the Americans face-to-face at important levels of our respective political systems – prime minister and president; premiers and governors; members of parliament and members of Congress; mayors, business and union leaders, and civil society.”
• Rick Bennet has the story of the first 1000 days of the Iraq War
• The Raptors are horrible but so are the Knicks
• What is a sports hernia?
• Tony Kornheiser shooting his mouth off again
• Movies whose fans are more annoying then the film itself
• Can someone please tell me why the religious right doesn’t protest cuts in food stamp programs? :: When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them. That is a great relief to Republican leaders, who have dismissed the burgeoning protests as the work of liberals. But it raises the question: Why in recent years have conservative Christians asserted their influence on efforts to relieve Third World debt, AIDS in Africa, strife in Sudan and international sex trafficking — but remained on the sidelines while liberal Christians protest domestic spending cuts?
• The the game starts, these sports executives get lost :: I can totally relate, I was too sick too my stomach to watch Denver win its two Super Bowls. I watched them later after I found out they won.
• Top 10 Nitpicked Sites
• Patriot Act blocked in the Senate

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