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A legislator from Virginia cites a passage from the Bible that says if a woman has a child with some kind of disability, then she must have aborted her first pregnancy based on dramatic evidence. Now, if the Bible is true as this lawmaker claims, then Sarah Palin had an abortion the first time she was pregnant because her baby has Down syndrome.

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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-31532-Modesto-Political-Issues-Examiner~y2010m2d26-Sarah-Palin-had-an-abortion

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from suddenly losing their unemployment benefits next month.

As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused to go along.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html

26-year-old Andrew Benton does not expect to hold a traditional 9-to-5 job unless he starts his own business again, and he is not overly concerned on the recession’s longterm effect on his career. Whatever you make of this attitude, Benton is arguably the prototype of the new and perhaps ideal worker in the post-recession economy.

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/234177

In this wide-ranging interview, Murdoch discusses his rise from proprietor of the Adelaide News at age 22 (on the death of his father) to international media mogul.

Weighing in on topics as varied as capitalism, feature films, China, and Google, the conversation invariably returns to newspapers and journalism.

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http://fora.tv/2010/02/05/Rupert_Murdoch_The_Future_of_Newspapers#Murdochs_POV_on_Paywalls_Print_Media_and_the_iPad

The crash of Air France flight 447 from Rio to Paris last year is one of the most mysterious accidents in the history of aviation.

After months of investigation, a clear picture has emerged of what went wrong. The reconstruction of the horrific final four minutes reveal continuing safety problems in civil aviation.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,679980,00.html

Senator Jim Bunning takes a stand to block extending jobless benefits unless Democrats figure out how to pay to them.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/bunning-objects-over-and-over/

Unable to find the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Senate Democrats abandoned proposals to reform the Patriot Act and voted Wednesday night to extend key parts of the controversial security law to 2011.

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http://rawstory.com/2010/02/dems-abandon-reforms-extend-patriot-act/

Internal documents show one of the country’s largest for-profit health insurer spent tens of millions of dollars on corp. retreats, doled out seven-figure salaries to more than 3 dozen corporate executives, dropped its sickest policy holders and planned to increase rates on individual premiums in Calif by as much as 39 percent, all profit motivated

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http://www.truthout.org/documents-reveal-anthem-blue-crosss-california-rate-hike-purely-profit-driven57159

The evolving conventional wisdom: Baghdad isn’t ready.

Could the difficult political and security situation in Iraq scuttle plans for a March 7th withdrawal?

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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Why-Were-Not-Ready-To-Leave-Iraq-2632

(+ PICS) The January 2009 incident was caught on videotape and set the tone for a year that brought the largest number of mass evictions in Phnom Penh since 1975, when Pol Pots Khmer Rouge evacuated the entire city in the process of killing more than 2 million Cambodians.

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/100201/cambodia-evictions