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10 Reasons Why The New York Police Evicted the Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Last night, hundreds of New York police officers in riot gear entered Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan where the Occupy Wall Street protesters had been camping for weeks, and forcefully evicted the protesters, injuring and arresting some of them in process.  The protesters have already … Continue reading

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10 Drug Warning Labels For The Republican Candidates

According to numerous recent polls, Barack Obama would lose the presidential race to a “Generic Republican Candidate” if such a contest were held.  Unfortunately, the Generic Republican Candidate has not officially declared his candidacy (yes, “his”, not “her” candidacy – … Continue reading

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10 Other Things Which Standard & Poor’s Had Also Downgraded

Last Friday, the Standard & Poor’s rating agency downgraded the USA debt credit rating from AAA to AA+.  S&P then went on a downgrade rampage, lowering the credit ratings of Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac,  thousands of municipal bonds and basically … Continue reading

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10 Reasons Why Negotiations To Raise the Debt Ceiling Are Taking So Long

Earlier this year, White House had asked Congress to raise the US debt ceiling.  While almost everyone agrees that raising the debt ceiling is necessary, the talks on the increase to the US debt ceiling have continued for weeks so … Continue reading

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10 Reactions to the Latest Release by Wikileaks

Today, Wikileaks released over 250000 classified US State Department documents.  This action has prompted a wide range of different reactions, from some praising the founder of the Wikileaks as a hero, while others have called for him to be hanged … Continue reading

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10 Reasons Why Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner Were Re-elected To Lead Their Parties

A few days ago, both Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner have been re-elected by their respective parties to lead their respective parts of House of Representatives.  Except now Pelosi is the minority leader and Boehner leads the majority.  Here are … Continue reading

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10 Reactions to the Elections Results

The results of yesterday’s elections were disappointing to some and exciting to others, and few people had exactly the same reaction to the elections outcome.  So here are the reactions to the election results from 10 different people: 1) Christine … Continue reading

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10 Reasons These Elections Were So Damn Expensive

This election season has been called one of the most expensive ever, with estimated 3 to 4 billion dollars spent on campaigning.  Here 10 of the costs that made these elections so expensive. 1) $455,211,521 to pay for grassroots organizing. … Continue reading

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10 Fun Statistical Facts About Glenn Beck’s Rally

Note: The below was originally posted in my Facebook account on 8/30/2010 with Friends Only access and the post on the Rally to Restore Sanity was meant to be a complement to the post below. This weekend, Glenn Beck held … Continue reading

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10 Fun Statistical Facts About Rally to Restore Sanity

1) 3,819,570 people were too sane to actually to cram into the DC metro, buses and national Mall and watched the rally on TV 2) Of 211,131 people attending, only 3,175 people actually saw and heard everything Stewart and Colbert … Continue reading

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