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  • August 2008

    • Trouble the Water Vividly Mixes Katrina, Race

      Salon  |  Aug 21, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Trouble the Water Vividly Mixes Katrina, Race

      (Newser) - Trouble the Water , a new documentary, is ostensibly about Hurricane Katrina, centered around home-video footage shot during the disaster by a resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. But the film, which frames Kimberly Roberts’ footage within a larger context, transcends that one event to put forth a peerless discussion of race in America, Andrew O’Hehir writes in Salon. More »

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      Hurricane Katrina  • race  • New Orleans  • racism  • African Americans  • America  • African-Americans

    • US Women's Soccer Claims Gold

      Associated Press  |  Aug 21, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      US Women's Soccer Claims Gold

      (Newser) - The US women’s soccer team claimed Olympic gold today, besting Brazil 1-0 with a goal scored in extra time, the AP reports. Carli Lloyd scored the crucial goal, but goalkeeper Hope Solo was the star of the game, shutting down shot after shot from Brazil’s unrelenting offense. It is the American team’s third gold medal since women’s soccer was added in 1996. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Brazil  • soccer  • America  • US women's soccer  • US Olympic athletes

    • Georgian War Lays Bare Bush Policy's Failures

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 19, 08 3:45 PM CDT

      Georgian War Lays Bare Bush Policy's Failures

      (Newser) - The Georgian war crystallizes the failure of the Bush administration's foreign policy, writes HDS Greenway in the Boston Globe . Besides the ready-made justification the Iraq war provides to any invading country, America has stoked Georgian boldness, "and now America's client is wiping blood from its nose," he writes. "The wreckage of Georgia's towns and countryside, however, is not as complete as the ruin of Bush's policies." More »

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      Russia  • Georgia  • United States  • Vladimir Putin  • NATO  • America  • Tbilisi  • missile shield

    • We're Down, We're Really Down: Poll

      CNN  |  Aug 1, 08 7:20 AM CDT

      We're Down, We're Really Down: Poll

      (Newser) - Only 24% of Americans think the country is on the right track in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. That number is the lowest since 1980. The other times it has dipped below 30% were during Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, and the economic slump of 1992. As recently as April 2007, 49% were optimistic about the country's direction, CNN reports. More »

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      poll  • America  • optimism  • approval rating

  • July 2008

    • Keep the Hummer: Save America's Soul

      Washington Post  |  Jul 12, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Keep the Hummer: Save America's Soul

      (Newser) - Sure, the Hummer is more of a "cartoon" than a vehicle, a ridiculously over-the-top gas-guzzling monstrosity. But the unbridled optimism it takes to manufacture it—and to fill up the tank—is what makes it uniquely American, writes Matthew DeBord in the Washington Post . If GM axes it, or, heaven forfend, takes it hybrid, we’ll lose yet another chip off the American soul. It's just too cool to die. More »

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      auto industry  • General Motors  • hybrid car  • America  • SUV  • Hummer  • American  • optimism

    • One for the Books: Ben Franklin Weds Betsy Ross

      Philadelphia Inquirer  |  Jul 4, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      One for the Books: Ben Franklin Weds Betsy Ross

      (Newser) - Betsy Ross married Benjamin Franklin last night at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, in what probably seemed to many onlookers as a bit of historical fantasy in honor of July 4th, the Inquirer reports. But this was not acting: The couple was Linda Wilde and Ralph Archbold, two of Philadelphia’s most popular historical impersonators, who just happened to get married in character. More »

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      Philadelphia  • America  • Michael Nutter  • impersonator

    • Dig Finds Washington's Home (No Cherry Tree)

      New York Times  |  Jul 2, 08 6:20 PM CDT

      Dig Finds Washington's Home (No Cherry Tree)

      (Newser) - Archaeologists have found the childhood home of George Washington, the New York Times reports—and despite the popular legend, there's no cherry tree anywhere on the premises. Researchers describe the founding father's Virginia digs as “a very nice gentry house” sporting eight rooms—not the simple cottage pictured in popular imagination. More »

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      history  • archaeology  • America  • Freemason  • excavation  • George Washington

  • June 2008

    • Candidates Exploit Muslim-Jewish Divide

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 26, 08 6:05 PM CDT

      Candidates Exploit Muslim-Jewish Divide

      (Newser) - The presidential candidates are ignoring—even insulting—American Muslims in the hope of grabbing the Jewish vote, write Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs in the Los Angles Times . McCain and Obama have on several occasions snubbed Muslims, who seem to be the victims of modern McCarthyism—just substitute terrorism for communism. It's a "disturbing trend" that must stop, write the co-members of an interfaith peace group. More »

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      election 2008  • United States  • Islam  • America  • Muslim  • Judaism  • Jewish

    • Oz Tops US As World's Fattest

      Age (Aust.)  |  Jun 20, 08 5:02 PM CDT

      Oz Tops US As World's Fattest

      (Newser) - Australia is the fattest nation in the world, the Age reports. A new study says body-mass index measurements pegs 4 million people—26% of the nation's population—as obese, narrowly beating the US, where 25% are obese. An additional 5 million Aussies are classified as overweight—with the usual suspects of more fast food and less exercise behind the epidemic. More »

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      Australia  • obesity  • America  • fat  • overweight  • belly fat

    • Foreign Investment in Iraq Up

      USA Today  |  Jun 17, 08 4:09 PM CDT

      Foreign Investment in Iraq Up

      (Newser) - European and Asian investors are taking advantage of the recently stabilized Iraqi business climate, USA Today reports. US firms still regard Iraq as too dangerous to invest in, but that attitude may cost them the best opportunities. The firms “who are getting in on the ground floor are not American," says a Pentagon official. "It's ironic." More »

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      Iraq  • business  • America  • investment  • competition  • foreign investment  • investment firm

    • Long Journey Home From Iraq

      Esquire  |  Jun 8, 08 5:13 AM CDT

      Long Journey Home From Iraq

      (Newser) - One soldier's death reveals more of America's pain more starkly than Iraqi war statistics ever could. So one reporter discovered as he followed the remains of Indiana native son Sgt. Robert Joe Montgomery from a pass near the Tigris to a funeral in Scottsburg, meeting all who suffered along the way. At the riveting center of Chris Jones' haunting journey in Esquire is "Joey" himself. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • America  • Iraq death toll  • casualties  • military families  • cost

    • At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      Weekly Standard  |  Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      (Newser) - Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard . Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the Field now panders unabashedly to the most intellectually lazy, politically correct misconceptions of the lives of the original Americans. More »

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      America  • museum  • Native Americans  • Aztecs  • political correctness  • Incas  • Christopher Columbus  • P.J. O'Rourke  • Field Museum

  • May 2008
  • March 2008

    • Philly Steak Shop Can Keep 'Please Speak English' Signs

      Philadelphia Inquirer  |  Mar 20, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Philly Steak Shop Can Keep 'Please Speak English' Signs

      (Newser) - The owner of a Philadelphia institution can keep signs that ask customers to order their cheese steaks in English, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. A city agency ruled the signs at Geno's Steaks—"This is America. When ordering, please speak English"—do not violate discrimination rules; owner Joey Vento says he never turned away customers and just wanted to make a political point. More »

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      immigration  • Philadelphia  • America  • language  • English

  • February 2008

    • More Americans Cut Church Ties

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Feb 26, 08 6:00 AM CST

      More Americans Cut Church Ties

      (Newser) - Americans are swapping  religious affiliations at an accelerating rate, with 50% choosing  a different denomination than the one they were raised in, and 16%—double the number 20 years ago—saying the have no ties to a particular church, a new survey of religious life finds. That doesn't mean they're atheists, the Pew Forum report released yesterday concludes; only 1.6% say they are non-believers. More »

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      religion  • immigration  • Catholic Church  • evangelicals  • America  • secularism  • faith  • Latinos  • churchgoers

  • December 2007

    • US Fertility Rate Bounces to Boom Levels

      USA Today  |  Dec 20, 07 4:41 AM CST

      US Fertility Rate Bounces to Boom Levels

      (Newser) - Americans are having more babies than at any time since 1971, USA Today reports. The fertility rate hit an average of 2.1 babies for every woman in 2006, the highest since just before the Baby Boom ended. The rise in fertility puts America apart from other developed countries, many of which are trying to cajole their people into having more babies to replace aging populations. More »

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      America  • babies  • fertility  • demographics  • population  • baby boom

    • At 500, 1st 'America' Map Baffles

      Reuters  |  Dec 4, 07 5:25 PM CST

      At 500, 1st 'America' Map Baffles

      (Newser) - The Library of Congress this week unveils the first map to use the name "America"—and the 500-year-old mysteries that go with it. The 1507 map by a German monk includes a surprisingly precise rendering of South America, Reuters reports, and seemingly predicts the contours of the continent's Pacific coast 6 years before European explorers ever saw it. More »

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      America  • South America  • monks  • Library of Congress  • maps  • North America

    • Venezuela Calmly Goes to Polls

      Reuters  |  Dec 2, 07 3:07 PM CST

      Venezuela Calmly Goes to Polls

      (Newser) - Polls are orderly today as Venezuelans decide on an amendment that may make Chavez president for life, Reuters reports. Most surveys say voters are split 50/50 on the referendum, which Chavez vows will win by 10 points and usher in “21st century socialism.” Opponents say the changes, which include ending Chavez’s term limit, would make the anti-American president a dictator. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Venezuela  • Hugo Chavez  • America  • constitution  • referendum  • dictatorship  • constitutional amendment  • socialism  • vote

  • November 2007

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