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Best leave the mortgage market in government control or abolish Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac entirely and let moral hazard rule.

If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like but in a state where it can not be easily recognized. It is like burning an encyclopedia. Information is not lost, if one keeps the smoke and the ashes.

The time to organize resistance begins now, with no illusions in the IOC, their corporate sponsors, or the good will of our own government.

The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days were disturbed only mildly by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA – not to be confused!

The Dream Defenders have scored a number of victories since initiating their #TakeoverFL sit-in.

In May, Ines Abdel-Dayem was fired from the Cairo Opera's chair; in July she was offered ministerial post which she turned down. Today, reinstated to the opera, she shares her thoughts about past months and reveals dynamic plans

Unemployment, Amazon, Detroit, Bank of America, the elite, Chicago Teachers, March on Washington

Good luck predicting how the new set of Israel-Palestine peace talks will unfold.

New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively

Dr. Sanjay Gupta says we have been "systematically misled" on marijuana, and apologizes for his role