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How We Can Live with Less and Still Feel Rich By David Villano, Miller-McCune.com Here's how government can help curb America's seemingly endless appetite for "more." Read more »   Cheney's Shocking Admissions on How Close He Came to Nearly Destroying the Country By Robert Parry, Consortium News In a series of departing interviews, Cheney challenges anyone to repudiate the imperial presidency constructed in the Bush era. Read more »   Rick Warren Is an Unapologetic Christian Radical -- And There's No Need to Apologize for Opposing Him By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Progressives are right to hold the line against Warren's bigoted positions on abortion and homosexuality. Read more »   Pentagon Tries to Lock Obama Into an Outrageously Bloated Budget By Mark Engler, In These Times The U.S. spends as much on the military in a single year as it did in the $700 billion financial bailout. Yet the Pentagon is now calling for more. Read more »   A $50 Billion Con Job Rocks Wall Street By Danny Schechter, AlterNet Outlaws used to rob banks; now banks rob us. Meet the new poster boy for Wall Street excess and larceny. Read more »   Is Obama's Education Pick the Sarah Palin of the School System? By Annette Fuentes, New America Media Education advocates say Arne Duncan's qualifications are slim. Read more »   The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much By Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium That's right: Conservatives are terrified that a new system would be so good we would never want to get rid of it. Read more »   Why Do People Cling to the Myth of the Nuclear Family? By Mark Steel, Independent UK A glance through history suggests there's nothing natural about the "traditional" family. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Dick Cheney Calls 9/11 the "Highest Moment" of the Last Eight Years By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly "[I]t tells you something about the darkness of Cheney's mind that this was the first thing to come to his mind when looking for bright spots ... " Read more »   Germany Could Take in Gitmo Prisoners By Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist Legal News and Research Germany supports closing Guantanamo and is calling on other members of the European Union to take in prisoners too. Read more »

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