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Read the Latest News and Political events from US. Get the most read news and happenings in the United States and the world through The Huffington Post.

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No time to page through thousands of eBay listings? Then just sneak a peek at my weekly eBay roundup of top vintage clothing finds.This eclectic mix of designer and non-designer vintage clothing and accessories caught my discerning eye because of their uniqueness, contemporary feel or highly collectible nature.More...

Source: Weekly Roundup of eBay Vintage Clothing Finds (PHOTOS)

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"Cheer up, watch funny shows, laugh heartily and you'll stay healthy!" It's ever-present advice, but it's wrong, wrong, wrong. We hear it all the time. If you're ill, spend a few days glued to the screen watching the exuberance of "Glee" and the laugh-out-loud comedy of "Seinfeld" reruns and, so goes the common wisdom, you'll have a speedy recovery. Or even better, stay cheery and you won't get sick in the first place. Unfortunately, there's no good scientific evidence for this sort of progression. Worse, this misconception draws attention away from the real relationships between happiness, health and long life. What does science really say?On the face of it, the idea that an Elizabeth Edwards or any other brave person riddled with cancerous tumors could laugh away the disease -- that they would get better if only they tried really hard to cheer up -- is a form of magical thinking that is terribly implausible. Of course, someone will always offer up an example -- an anecdote of a miraculous recovery -- and there are indeed rare cases of a seemingly miraculous healing. But for every miracle, millions of brave patients succumb. Was it because they did not laugh enough?More...

Source: Does Being Happy Improve Our Health? You Might Be Surprised

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By Bill RigbyMore than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation.More...

Source: Malicious Attack 'LizaMoon' Hits A Million Web Pages

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Or put another way, is there any limit to how small or poorly attended a Tea Party rally can be before the press finally stops showering the right-wing movement with coverage? Based on the avalanche of reporting that yesterday's minuscule Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., generated, the answer appears to be, no.Just how sparse was the Tea Party crowd? A Bloomberg dispatch tactfully noted the rally attracted "dozens" of supporters.More...

Source: Does A Tea Party Rally Attracting "Dozens" Qualify As News?

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By Adelle M. BanksReligion News ServiceMore...

Source: Group Says Park Service Stalling On Religious Displays

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Glenn Beck told Bill O'Reilly that Donald Trump's recent comments have been making him "uncomfortable."Trump has been in the news lately for his controversial remarks about President Obama. In a widely seen interview on Wednesday, he repeated his claims that Obama may not be a citizen of the United States, and even hinted that the president could be a Muslim.More...

Source: Glenn Beck: Donald Trump Making Me 'Uncomfortable' (VIDEO)

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Minimal Impact to the Global Supply Chain?In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it has become fashionable for some in the global business community to believe that the economic impact of Japan's earthquake will be minimal.  No one can truly know the ultimate impact because the world has never experienced such a severe natural disaster in an economy so critical to the global supply chain: This is not Indonesia, New Zealand, Chile or Pakistan -- which have also experienced recent severe earthquakes -- this is Japan.More...

Source: Japan's Government Needs to Move Quickly

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With this essay, I issue a challenge to LGBT Americans across the country regarding one of the most important priorities for our community at this moment: the urgent need to contribute our voices, our efforts and our resources to the existential struggle that the labor movement is currently waging against the Republican forces seeking to cripple the right of workers to collectively bargain and roll back workplace protections.  I believe that our national organizations need to be putting feet on the streets and money on the table to support labor.  I believe that we, as individuals, need to show up to support and defend workers.  I do not suggest that this work should happen to the exclusion of our continued advocacy on traditional LGBT issues, but I do suggest that it should be a major commitment of the LGBT community right now, not just a symbolic statement of support.  I urge this course of action for three basic reasons.First, labor rights is an LGBT issue.  As Gary Gates and others have long since demonstrated, LGBT Americans come from the same economic and demographic origins as all Americans.  That means that 65-70% of LGBT Americans have no college degree.  The median household income for LGBT Americans ranges from about $35,000 per year in the poorest states to about $65,000 in the richest.  Huge numbers of LGBT Americans have either no health insurance or inadequate health insurance.  If anything, these economic challenges are even more acute for LGBT workers, who enjoy no federal protection from workplace discrimination and no protection under the laws of many states, no access to equal health benefits in most companies, no access to equal treatment for their families under the laws of most states, and unequal treatment for their relationships under federal law. Working-class LGBT people tend to be less socially visible in our civil rights efforts, just as working-class people tend to be less socially visible in American public life as a general matter, but a large majority of LGBT people are directly at risk from the Republican assault upon workers.More...

Source: Labor and the LGBT Community

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Meat Loaf will do anything for love -- but he wouldn't share his art supplies. That, he most definitely won't do.You see, he bought "those motherf**king sponges!"More...

Source: Meat Loaf's Epic 'Celebrity Apprentice' Meltdown At Gary Busey (VIDEO)