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15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People By Ellen Friedrichs, AlterNet In the land of the free, the freedom to express your sexuality can land you in prison. Read more » Rachel Maddow: Right-Wing Terrorism Must Be Stopped By Rachel Maddow, MSNBC The tactics of anti-choice extremists are designed to change policy by terrorizing Americans. How do we stop them from committing violent acts? Read more » Let's Get It Straight, Hank Paulsen Is a Prick Who Took Down the Economy By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary. Read more » A Brief History of the Radical, Violent Right: How Racist Hate Groups Joined Up with Abortion Terrorists By James Ridgeway, MotherJones.com Alleged murderer Scott Roeder was once a white separatist before he became an anti-choice zealot -- many others have followed the same deadly path. Read more » 119 Million Americans Want a Public Health Option -- Why Aren't Politicians Listening? By Robert Parry, Consortium News Rarely has an issue more dramatically highlighted the question of whether our government represents the people's interests or an industry's. Read more » California's Water Woes Threaten the Entire Country's Food Supply By Scott Thill, AlterNet Nearly a third of the country's food supply comes from California, but drought there may be a catastrophe for farmers -- and the rest of us. Read more » AlterNet Takes on Shock Jock Michael Savage and Gets Threatened With a Lawsuit By Don Hazen, Tana Ganeva, AlterNet When we helped publicize the link between bilious talk show host Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink, we got a letter from their lawyers. Read more » Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality By Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America "Fox Nation", a website that's the newest addition to Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, deliberately misleads readers. Read more » The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum. Read more »