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The shrinking areas of tranquillity in England are revealed in a map. Where is your favourite peaceful place?
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Children as young as 10 should be taught about contraception while at primary school, a report suggests. Send us your views.
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Will human over-consumption compel us toward more sustainable living? What would you give up?
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Iraq death estimates: Your questions
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The number of youngsters held in custody reaches a record high, prompting warnings of "meltdown". Send us your views.
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Plans to restrict Bulgarian and Romanian workers in the UK when the countries join the EU are unveiled. Send your views.
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The US ambassador to Iraq has said success in Iraq is possible and can be achieved in a realistic timeframe. What do you think?
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A London council plans to link the cost of residents' parking permits to the emissions their cars produce. Send us your views.
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Do you agree with Madonna that media reaction to her adoption bid has had a negative effect on potential adoption from Africa?
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British surgeons could perform the world's first full face transplant within months. Send us your comments.
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by Brendan Nyhan Not that long ago, many people thought the Internet would break down partisan boundaries and improve the quality of political debate in this country -- a prediction that sounds as silly today as previous hype about the...
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by Nick Gillespie With a general election less than two months away, the last thing anybody wants to talk about is politics, right? Thankfully, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, a.k.a. BCRA, a.k.a. McCain-Feingold, makes it infinitely more difficult...
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by Ann Althouse Elif Shafak, author of a book called "The Bastard of Istanbul," has just been acquitted of the strange-sounding crime of "insulting Turkishness." The idea of such a crime seems ridiculous or contemptible to most Americans, though some...
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by Eric Pfeiffer In the past two months, Oliver Stone has been coming to terms with his very awkward anointment as conservative icon, after his film "World Trade Center," received gushing praise from the right. For his part, Stone claims...
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by Greg Beato Having passed up a chance to enlist as a war warrior during Vietnam -- he was busy attending college in London -- Bill O'Reilly has now drafted himself to serve as America's top "culture warrior." In his...
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by Ana Marie Cox White House Press Secretary Tony Snow has taken on an unprecedented role this campaign season as an official RNC fundraiser. While the President, Vice-President and their wives regularly appear as headliners for political fundraising events, cabinet...
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by Nick Gillespie On the off chance that you want to escape, however briefly, from uncomfortable double-entendre, Three's Company-quality headlines such as "Ex-FBI director won't probe congressional page system," chew on a different sort of moral panic involving youth, uncontrolled...
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by David Weigel Stephen Colbert, as usual, was the only pundit with the balls to tell the truth. When he booked former Navy Secretary James Webb on his satirical talk show six months ago, Colbert puzzled over how an award-winning...
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by Ana Marie Cox Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is receiving some, ah, blowback today over his decision to characterize the Iraq war in terms of a fantasy book about dwarves. Meeting with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier...
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by Greg Beato "The Night of Bush Capturing" may sound like a sexytime dream collaboration between horny Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev and Joe Francis of "Girls Gone Wild" fame, but alas, it isn't. Instead, it's a first-person shooter where gamers...
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by Ana Marie Cox By now you've probably seen the new Republican National Committee ad, "The Stakes." It's a kind of homage to Johnson's "Daisy" ad, though less, uhm, subtle. The RNC "earned" some media coverage of the ad by...
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by Ana Marie Cox I was watching "Meet the Press" when Tim Russert cajoled Barack Obama into admitting he would possibly consider a presidential run. It was a quiet statement, made in a manner both reluctant and calculating, just vague...
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by Ana Marie Cox The big debate within the Republican party today has less to do with how to vote than whether to vote at all. And as the interparty rhetoric has heated up in recent past, so has the...
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Political junkies -- a term used to define anyone who pays attention to electoral politics before Halloween -- have been enjoying the campaign antics of Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) and Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) for month. Now, with the election...
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by Ana Marie Cox 1. The difference between a "benchmark" and a "timetable" is that benchmarks will help you win, whereas "Withdrawing on an artificial timetable means we lose." Corallary: The difference between "winning" and "losing" in Iraq is whether...
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