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Strange Currencies: 18 Facts You Need to Know About Bitcoins Now

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Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that allows users to bypass banks, avoid transaction fees, and maintain complete financial anonymity if they so desire. Because no physical money changes hands, bitcoin exchange can seem perplexing to…
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15 Tragic Reasons Why America is Still a “Columbine Nation”

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The word Columbine strikes fear in parents all over the world. The tragic 1999 shooting in Colorado was every parents’ worst nightmare. We send our children to school, expecting them to be safer there than on the streets, but sometimes they…
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15 UFO Tales that are Hard Not to Believe

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July 2 happens to be National Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Day. If you’re like most of us, you’re not so sure you believe in them but aren’t so sure we’re alone in the universe either. Regardless of how you feel about the matter,…
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13 Reasons Why Fecal Transplants are Hot Right Now

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Are you reading this while eating? You may want to step away from your food and bookmark this for later. We are about to get real. Real about your poop. This is not to gross you out, but to inform you.  People are talking about fecal transplants…
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15 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton’s Memoir is this Summer’s Big Book

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Hillary Clinton’s memoir Hard Choices (Simon & Schuster) will be available in stores and online June 10. The book is said to be a personal and professional account of her time as Secretary of State. And, of course, it’s generating…
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10 Reasons Why the Death Penalty is a Dividing Issue

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“I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.” This quote from Eric Holder, the first African American Attorney General of the United States, reflects what many Americans feel,…
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President Obama Introduces Television Premiere of "Cosmos"

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On Sunday, President Barack Obama introduced the Fox television broadcast of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. President Obama screened Cosmos at the White House Student Film Festival, where he spoke about how NASA had reported it discovered 700…
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How the Farm Bill SNAP Cuts Will Affect Latinos

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President Obama, accompanied by Senator Debbie Stabenow and Secretary Of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, visited Michigan State University to sign a five-year, $956 billion farm bill into law. The compromise took almost three years to resolve and…
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In Defense of Addicts, Alcoholics, and Philip Seymour Hoffman

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When I posted the news of the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on my Facebook page, a friend from my school days commented on it. It was something to the effect that Hoffman was a great actor but not a great human being.  Then he…