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TPM: Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die (VIDEO) - The last two Republican presidential debates have been some of the most macabre on record. Last time around, at the Reagan Library, the crowd gave the biggest applause of the night to the 234 executions that have occurred in Texas while Rick Perry was governor. In Tampa, Florida at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate Monday night, the tea party-filled audience literally cheered aloud for the uninsured to be allowed to die. The moment came during an exchange between moderator Wolf Blitzer and Ron Paul, whose libertarian views often make for good theater at Republican debates. Blitzer asked if under Paul’s libertarian philosophy, a sick man without insurance should be allowed to die in the hospital rather than have the state pay his medical bills. Before Paul could answer that question, shouts of “yes!” and cheering bubbled up from the audience. Watch:
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Reuters: Gunmen kill 22 Shi'ite Iraqi pilgrims: police - Gunmen killed 22 Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims in an ambush in the Sunni heartland province of Anbar on Monday, a police official said.
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Reuters: Arabs to push for Palestinian statehood bid
CBSNews: Taliban lays seige to Afghan capital
NPR: Rockets Fired Toward U.S. Embassy In Afghanistan
MotherJones: Missing: Tons of US-Supplied Nuclear Weapons Material
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Politico: How the rich blew up the banks
Today: Living paycheck to paycheck, or worse
MSNBC: Business economists turn pessimistic amid uncertainty - Widely watched survey shows economists lowering their growth forecasts
Reuters: Fisher says Fed can do little now to spur economy - There is little the Federal Reserve can do at this point to help a U.S. economic recovery battered by problems at home and abroad, a top Fed official said on Monday, adding that he believes it is it incumbent on politicians to attack fiscal problems.
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Gallup: There's About To Be A Global Battle For Good Jobs
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BusinessInsider: Looking Again At The Dreaded US-Japan Bear Market Analog
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GlobeandMail: China's interest in Italian debt is purely business
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Peak oil and Energy News
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YahooNews: Oil rises on expected drop in supplies
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Commodities/Metals
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Environmental News
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VOA: French Nuclear Explosion Raises Safety Concerns in France
IReport: Bloomsburg, PA Flood Photos
CNN: Police to investigate flooding deaths of nearly 100 animals at Petco
MSNBC: World environment programs may lose US aid - Operators fear Congress to target money for foreign aid and international conservation
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America in Decline
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MSNBC: Census: US incomes fell in 2010 as poverty rate rose
Food and Water
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Science and Technology
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CNN: How many pages are on the internet?
MSNBC: Fifty new alien worlds revealed
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Medical and Health
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Doomsteading, Gardening, Urban Farming
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Politics
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