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On Tuesday, Rod Blagojevich's lawyers painted a pretty clear picture of what their lives have been like since the jury began deliberations in the former governor's corruption trial."I'm going back to the office to stare at my wall," defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. said Tuesday. "That's all I can do."More...

The Waiting Game: What Is Rod Blagojevich Doing While Waiting For The Verdict? (PHOTOS)

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Mercy is what God does for us. Mercy discounts the economic sense of love and faith and care for a person and lives out of a divine sense of love instead. Mercy gives a human being who does not "deserve" love, love. And why? Because, the Scriptures answer, God know of what we are made.The fact is that we are all made of the same thing: clay, the dust of the earth, the frail, fragile, shapeless thing from which we come and to which we will all return some day. We are all capable of the same things. Our only hope is that when we are all sitting somewhere bereft, exposed, outcast, humiliated and rejected by the rest of society, someone, somewhere will "reach out a hand and lift us up."More...

Mercy Is What God Does for Us

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Flooding in Pakistan has now affected some 14 million people per the latest United Nations estimate -- more than the Haiti earthquake and Indonesia tsunami disasters combined -- and aid agencies today called for $460 million to assist the victims.Relief efforts have been slow following the disaster, dubbed the worst flood in living memory. Rescuers have been unable to reach as many as 600,000 in the Swat Valley, according to U.N. spokesman Maurizio Giuliano.More...

Pakistan Flood Victims: 'No Food,' 'No Money,' Would Have Been Better To Die (PHOTOS)

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Brightcove, the big online video platform, has switched to Akamai as its primary content delivery network, both companies have announced.More...

Brightcove Links With Akamai for Global Content Delivery Services

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Reuel Marc Gerecht, a Middle East expert and storied former CIA operative, has called, along with Fox News' Glenn Beck, for a litmus test to be given to Muslims anxious to build a mosque near Ground Zero.In a classic conspiracy-riddled "chalk talk" this week, Beck reversed his earlier defense of the Islamic center on Constitutional grounds. He rallied his minions against the mosque and cited David Horowitz' test that "the fastest way to find out who you are dealing with" is to ask a Muslim to denounce Hamas. Fox's pontificator-in-chief then made a few splendid leaps of logic to show his viewers that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is in favor of Hamas' ambitions to kill all the Jews.More...

Beck and Gerecht Call for Spanish Inquisition, American-style

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While the climate bill is withering on the vine in Washington, many of my environmental colleagues have spent the last few weeks rehashing what went wrong. And who could blame them? There is good reason to be disillusioned by Congress's inability to curb climate change, and to reconsider our movement's strategies over the past several years. In my eyes, assuming that Washington is the only place where change can and needs to happen was the first mistake.It turns out that while Washington is failing to address pressing issues such as our climate and energy future, positive change is happening in others places--even as unlikely a place as Wall Street.More...

Wall Street Bails On King Coal

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Findings released in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll suggest that the Republican Party is very much a Southern regional white party in terms of the demographics of its supporters.MSNBC relays the numbers:More...

Republican Party Only Winning Key 2010 Poll In Southern States

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger has apologized after a shocking rant on her radio show this week during which she said the n-word 11 times over the course of five minutes.In conversation Tuesday with a black female caller who was complaining about her white husband's racist friends and their use of the word, Schlessinger said:More...

Dr. Laura's N-Word Rant: Radio Host Apologizes For Offensive Language (AUDIO)

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Marking today's release of the hotly anticipated "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" movie, we've taken it upon ourselves to gather a list of the "Best Graphic Novel-to-Movie Adaptations." We've tried our hardest to stick to graphic novels and exclude superhero comics -- but all Frank Miller and Alan Moore material had to become the necessary exception. From high school loners to a Fascist in Iran, the topics covered in these graphic novels-turned-films certainly runs the gamut, but one thing remains constant: these books and movies are all amazing.

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Scott Pilgrim: Graphic Novel To Movie And The 7 Other Best Film Adaptations (PHOTOS)

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Down in Florida, the Democratic primary race between Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene has turned into a full-tilt frenzy over what did or did not go on aboard Greene's alleged-batterer-of-Belize's-coral-reefs yacht, the Summerwind.In the past few weeks, we've heard a lot of stories about Greene's yacht.  Two descriptive terms tend to jump out at you: The first is "party boat": the St. Petersburg Times' Adam C. Smith reminds readers today of an account from Gregory Zuckerman's book, The Greatest Trade Ever, that describes a Summerwind jaunt to the Black Sea that involved "Ukrainian strippers" and "stewardesses from coastal towns" that were hired as crew-slash-massage therapists.More...

Jeff Greene, Florida Senate Contender, DENIES Rumors Of Awesome Parties On His Vomit-Caked Mega-Yacht