Hunting Down Progressives

Arguing there could be "blood on many hands" if they fail to act, the head of a non-profit targeted by a Glenn-Beck-inspired gunman has urged several CEOS to drop advertising from Fox News and end "your company's sponsorship of hate speech leading to violence." Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation: "For hours every day, Beck pits American against American."

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Our Most Important Civil Right: Telling People What They Can/Can't Do and Who They Can/Can't Love

Minnesota's homophobic wingnuts - the Minnesota Famly Council and National Organization for Marriage - are invoking Martin Luther King in their fight against gay marriage, urging voters to support a GOP candidate who backs the "right to vote" against it, just like, sort of, the great civil rights icon. Twisted and shameful.

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"Learned Helplessness" and How Much Money You Can Make From It

A psychologist whose research helped shape the CIA's torture program has been granted a $31-million no-bid military contract to provide "resilience training" to US soldiers, Salon.com reports. Martin Seligman is famous for experiments in which he terrorized caged dogs into passivity by subjecting them to random, repeated electric shocks.

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