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No Olympics for Chicago; Obama's Credibility Shot?

So the news is coming in that Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting for the 2016 Olympics. With Obama's heavy involvement with the bid from his adopted city, not to mention rumors of political favoritism, is this going to have widespread political consequences?

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Joe Wilson Was Right: Obama Lied

By now, we're all aware of Senator Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst during President Obama's speech last night. He's taken a beating in the press; he's apologized: can't we just just let this go? Nope. Analytics... onward!

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McCain Supported Universal Healthcare, Too. What if the Republicans Won Last November?

The healthcare debate has reached a fevered pitch in this country, with partisan attacks, lies, and misdirection on both sides.

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How To Argue Like a Viner—Political Edition

The three topics that lead to the most debate are, according to latest popular Newsvine opinion: Politics; Religion; & Sports. Today, we're going to talk about #1, everyone's favorite: Politics.

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Conversations With Rhys: Clarifying My Moderation Style

A bit of background: I deleted several comments on this thread that were off-topic and inflammatory. Rhys M. Blavier found my moderation style to be partisan and unfair.

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December Earnings Released

December earnings are out. This message has been provided by your friendly neighborhood penny pincher. Discuss hits, etc., below.

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President Bush Leaves the Stage

Next Tuesday, George W. Bush will board Marine One at the Capitol and fly to Andrews AFB where he will board Air Force One, presidential seal removed, and fly back home to Texas. With that, eight years of controversy, courage, poor decisions and steadfastness will come to an end.

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Against Gay Marriage? You're Sexist.

It's a simple statement. Basically, if you don't believe in the right of homosexuals to marry, you believe that men and women should be treated differently; in short: you're sexist. "But wait," you say. "Gay marriage has nothing to do with men versus women." Or does it?

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September Earnings Released

Run! Do not walk. Check out your most recent Newsvine earnings. And, unlike last time, this is real. They're out! A little early, too. How'd you do?

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Obamaites: Something To Remember

Barack Obama will be our next president, but here's something to remember: about 55.8 million people voted against him. 46% of the country voted for The Other Guy.1

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A Place For Rational Election-Day Talk

This is a safe place to talk politics tomorrow. This will be aggressively moderated.

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Eat Your Way Through November 4th - For Free!

Why do we vote? The unalienable right to vote for due process of our democratic leadership? Ha! We vote for all the free food national chains are giving away. Here's the skinny on eating for free on November 4th: Breakfast

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Corruption and Nancy Pelosi

I came across this information today and thought I would share it at the community for your thoughts. My general feeling on most of these "A + B + C + D = CORRUPTION" logical threads is skepticism: you could imply almost anything given enough steps. But here we go:

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The Top 10 Reasons Why I Could Never Vote for Obama

There is an appeal about Obama that has brought in most of the Democrat party and much of Europe. That is if you like rhetoric of "change" and "hope". America needs more than empy words of "change" and "hope" though.

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Obama's Problem With The Big Picture

Listening to the candidates talk about the economic situation last night, I realize that Obama's grasping at straws when it comes to the economy.

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The NYT Foretold the Buyout in 1999

Today I was sent an article written by Steven A. Holmes and published in the New York Times on September 30, 1999. It's about the beginning of sub-prime lending, and includes some forecasts. One of the most interesting paragraphs (emphasis mine):

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Newsvine Spam Filtering: Now With Editor Alerts!

You may remember the original Newsvine spam filter, a bookmarklet available to collapse (temporarily) comments with all the hallmarks of a terrible comment.

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BREAKING: Bailout fails in House; DOW falls

More as the major outlets publish. Discuss. ----- Newsvine Articles Insist09 thinks we should all make a run on the banks. ----- Seeds -----

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Newsvine Leaderboard Secrets

Sometimes when I'm bored I play with the leaderboard. Today, I made a decent effort to find the weights Newsvine uses on each column to determine the popularity ranking.

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Introducing the One-Branch Government

The United States is employing 544 people unnecessarily, not to mention countless secretaries, clerks, drivers, secret servicemen, clowns, and mistresses.

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Heartbeat From The Presidency

Stephen Colbert's guest last week (I caught the re-run) mentioned that nine Vice Presidents had become President in the history of the United States; the underlying argument being that Sarah Palin is, according to the coined phrase popular with pundits, a heartbeat from the presi …

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Introducing Newsvine Spam Filtering

Tired of the trolls and idiots on Newsvine? Aren't we all. Wish there was some way to overlook comments like "lolz everybdoy knows that obamaa is teh best cuz he doesnt leik george bush either ^_^"

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