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After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’

The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image...

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Think Progress — 2 hours ago

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Nicole and hugh double date in paris

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman aren’t just co-stars — they’re friends! Enjoying a break from their whirldwind promotional tour, the Australia actors stepped out last night with their respective S.O.’s for a double-date in Paris. The big screen duo are expected to hit the r...

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Faded Youth Blog — 11 hours ago

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Military Heroine Discovers That Saving A Man Doesn't Make Him Respect You [Nobody's Victim]

Private Monica Brown is the second woman to be awarded the Silver Star since World War II — and she was just 18 years old (and had only 4 months of medical training) when she risked her own life to save two injured colleagues in Afghanistan after they were ambushed. Are those colleagues gra...

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Jezebel — 8 hours ago

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Pvt. Monica Brown 'Silver Star Medic' on '60 Minutes' Video

Monica Brown is the second woman awarded the Silver Star since World War II. She is only 18-years old and a Female Medic in the Army who risked her own life in order to save two critically wounded paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. ...

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Dapx - S...ted news — 20 hours ago

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Brian Williams: 'Could We Use a Little FDR Right About Now?'

Working on the day after Thanksgiving, Brian Williams used Friday's NBC Nightly News to promote a new book from FDR's grandson, providing Williams with an opportunity to propose: “In your estimation, could we use a little FDR right about now?” Though Franklin Delano Roosevelt's polici...

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NewsBust...dia Bias — Before yesterday

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Kuttner: Another Great Depression A Bigger Risk Than Large Budget Deficits

This week on NOW on PBS, economist Robert Kuttner states what should be (but unfortunately isn't) conventional wisdom: that it's more important to get this economy going again than it is to manage the federal budget deficit downwards. As Kuttner points out, our national debt is currently aroun...

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Search Daily Kos — 3 days ago