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Why We Vote For The Happiest Cavemen

Rick Foster | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Voter Appeal, Cult of Personality, Physiology, Public Appearances, American Voting, Presidential Debates, Survival, Social Research, Happiest, Happiness, Attraction, Character Assassination, Happy People, Greg Hicks, Medical Anthropology, Africa, Prehistory, Debate Performances, Clan, American Political System, Leaders, Guilt by Association, Medical Research, Characteristics, Savannah, Political Backlash, Vote, American Voters, Good Leaders, Evolution, Candidate, Caves Lascaux, Truth, Politics News

Our attraction to certain personal characteristics is integral to how we evolved as humans. How do we leap from prehistoric clan success to modern day presidential politics?

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Mavericks to Nowhere

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, God, Sue Katz, Sarah Palin, Truth, Politics News

Sarah Palin makes vague claims to have gay friends -- and no one can find any of them anywhere, alive, dead or in print.

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Truth is Utterly Optional

A. Siegel | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Truthiness, Sarah Palin Reaction, Truth, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Amid the flood of revelations of biblical proportions about Sarah Palin, which seems destined to last for at least 40 days and 40 nights, here is an item that might not be receiving the focus that it merits.

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Steve Pavlina: Personal Development for Smart People

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Personal Development for Smart People, Intelligence, Courage, Steve Pavlina, Oneness, Truth, Spirituality, Love, Power, Authority, Personal Growth, Self-Help, Living News

One of the most endearing parts of Steve Pavlina's personal development system is that it works for anyone, anywhere, any time a human wants to take control of her or his life.

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More Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Please

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Vice President, Lies, Experience, Jane Swift, Face the Nation, Joe Biden 2008, Drugs, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mccain, Obama, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Bush, Bush Doctrine, Lilly Ledbetter, Domestic Policy, 2008 Campaign, Equal Pay for Women, Ireland, Bob Schieffer, Cliffs Notes, Napolitano, Surrogate, Trial Lawyers, Women, Alaska, John McCain, Wasserman Schultz, Campaign Ad, Transcript, Bridge to Nowhere, Equal Pay, 2008 Elections, 08, Lie, 2008 Election, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, Foreign Policy, Double Standard, 08 Election, Lobbyist, Iraq Kuwait, Elections, Oil Sex Scandal, 08 Campaign, Janet Napolitano, Sex, Palin, Barack, Honor, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Hillary Clinton, Truth, Bridge to Sell You, Schultz, Ledbetter, Schieffer, Politics News

Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.

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15 Reasons People Don't Tell The Truth

Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks | Posted 09.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Love, Honesty, Communication, Truth, Lying, Relationship Advice, Living News

We're big advocates for speaking honestly in close relationships. In counseling thousands of couples, we've seen an incredible amount of destruction w...

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South African Wildfire: An Allegory for Journalists

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Reporting, Journalists, Politics, World's Worst Disasters, Horses, Fire, Animals, South Africa, Truth, Barack Obama, Home News

Journalists have an important moral responsibility to find the path of integrity through moral minefields that have opened old political wounds and ignited a firestorm of misunderstanding about small town America.

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Try a Little Truthfulness

Paula Gordon | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Right Wing, James Carse, Belief Systems, Believers, Wrong Wing, Fundamentalists, Truthfulness, Truth, Jesus, Gospel, Politics News

Who's fueling America's Wrong Wing? We are. The bullies are using us, distracting us from creating genuine possibilities. Evil is real. It silences us or forces us into passivity.

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Freedom of Speech, Satire, and Revisionist History...

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media

Read More: The Holocaust, Freedom of Speech, The New Yorker Cover, David Irving, Christopher Hitchens, Deborah Lipstadt, Revisionist History, Holocaust Deniers, Truth, Media News

Walking home on the Upper East Side on Wednesday night, I saw a cluster of ten policemen and two patrol cars. It seemed quite unusual for a quiet block. "What's going on?" I asked.

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Politics on The Couch: July 4, 2008 -- It's The Truth that Sets Us Free

Justin Frank | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Lying, Mccain, Obama, Lies, George Washington, Truth, July 4th, Politics News

As we celebrate Independence Day, we acknowledge that the only way to become truly independent is to speak truth to power, as the Founding Fathers did in 1776.

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Putting Down Our Dog and Thoughts of Scott McClellan

Rob Kall | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obituary, Whistleblowers, Dog, Pets, Scott Mcclellan, Truth, Politics News

Tough day today. We had to put down our 14 year old yellow lab, Vanilla. I treated her better than a dog the past few days. It made me think about ho...

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Of Mice and Straw Men

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, John McCain, Lobbying, Convention, Mccain, Straw Men, Truth, Straw Man, Fbi, Bush, Politics News

Could it be that Senator McCain doesn't want the public to see the maverick image he worked so hard to create is nothing more than a straw man?

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jamies Rubin, Iran, John McCain, Obama, Appeasement, Hamas, 2013, Truth, Politics News

This week, John McCain and the truth parted ways again, this time citing irreconcilable differences - i.e. the fact that the truth regularly exposes the dissembling, say-anything-to-get-elected hack McCain has become. His attacks on Barack Obama's willingness to confront the leaders of Iran at the negotiating table, and his piling on agreement with President Bush's loathsome attempt to link Obama to Nazi appeasers, were shown to be nothing more than hypocritical political posturing by Jamie Rubin. The McCain camp's response was to attack the messenger (hmm, where have I seen that before?) and attempt to confuse the issue. So here's what we can expect from now until November from McCain: attack the truth tellers and pretend it's 2013.

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May Day! May Day! Hijackings of the 4th Estate

Paige Donner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

The title of this piece, Hijackings of the 4th Estate, is purposefully provocative. For any journalist, Blogger or otherwise muckraker laboring in ser...

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Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Truth, Nation at Risk, Home News

Out of the Mouths of Cry Babies There was, as you would expect, a lot of "oh woe is us" in the last week of April as the 25th anniversary of "A Natio...

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The Big Picture

Andrew Arentowicz | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Conglomerates, Oil Prices, Gen X, Media, Future, Global Warming, News, Truth, Jeremiah Wright, Politics News

I am worried about our future. I would normally be minding my own business, but I'm afraid not enough people understand what's happening in the world today.

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The Joy of Sorry

Sharon Glassman | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Rocky Mountain Living, I'm Sorry, Housemates, Netflix, American Idol, Junk Food, Corporate Doublespeak, Joy, Truth, Pilates, Living News

Signposts pointing to a more truthful way of life pop up in the Rockies where I least expect them. For instance: in an email from Netflix last week. "We're sorry," the subject line said.

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Truth and Politics

Deborah King | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Perception, Clinton, Truth, Politics, Politics News

In an election year, we are asked to sit in judgment of the candidates and then take our decision into the voting booth. How can we ever know who these people are and what they are capable of?

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