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Sheryl Crow takes money from bailed-out bank - Embarrassing for Obama (2 replies)
Obama restores funding to abortion groups - Post-partisan era slow to take root on TT (1018 replies)
'The Unnecessary War' by Pat Buchanan - Supposedly a must-read book and a great study (108 replies)
How long before we dislike President Obama? - The honeymoon clock is ticking (216 replies)
Bushfires in Victoria, Australia - Worst in recorded history, over 200 dead (151 replies)
Tragedy in the Congo - Call for EU troops to be deployed (135 replies)
Views of the patriotic Australian Prime Minister - The whole world needs a leader like this (12 replies)
Canada wants in on U.S. economic stimulus package - Exemption sought from "Buy American" provisions (67 replies)
The Pope tells British bishop to buck up - Holocaust denier Richard Williamson excommunicated (2 replies)
Some more bleak pictures on economy - As many as 50 million jobs worldwide may go (10 replies)
Rod Blagojevich ousted from office - Illinois Senate sends unanimous vote (36 replies)
World Economic Forum in Davos 2009 - Isn't this now just a useless joke? (39 replies)
UK misguidedly reclassifies harmless marijuana - Back to Class B from Class C (46 replies)
Press negativity damages the economy even more - And debasing the English language (2-in-1 topic) (14 replies)
How to avoid Obama mania - Tips for inauguration day (71 replies)
The Obamas do a lot of 'fisting' - What was this FOX News 'expert' thinking? (5 replies)
Ted Kennedy collapses - At the inaugural lunch (4 replies)
Not thinking of Obama as a black man - Ben Bradlee on BBC Radio 4 says he doesn't (84 replies)
Shoe throwers give Bush the boot - From the Middle East to Mexico City (18 replies)
Dick Cheney's true identity revealed - He decided to come clean on the last day (7 replies)
Tainted milk products from China - Why do they do it? (68 replies)
President Barack Obama's inauguration - Live chat as it happens (228 replies)
Anyone gonna miss George Bush and his Bushisms? - When fish take dream, or whatever ya wanna call it (41 replies)
The best and worst of George W. Bush - Quotes and press (34 replies)
Conflict in Gaza - Isn't anyone upset by what is going on? (1673 replies)
Guantanamo Bay detention camp - Can it be justified? (191 replies)
Anyone noticed there is a war going on? - Fatah vs. Hamas in the Gaza strip (2007) (340 replies)
Obama picks Rick Warren for inaugural invocation - A warmonging, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationist (76 replies)
All aboard the atheist bus - Contribute £5 to a London bus atheism advert (72 replies)
Terrorism in Mumbai/Bombay - Al-Qaeda or a local affair? (106 replies)
Important ballot measures in the U.S. election - Gay marriage, medical marijuana, abortion, etc. (346 replies)
UK Labour keeps bleeding the English sick - England/Scotland prescription charge differences (21 replies)
Wedgwood goes into administration (UK potteries) - Is this the beginning of famous companies failing? (21 replies)
Barack Obama named "Person of the Year" - Time magazine makes a predictable choice (12 replies)
Obama's Illinois Senator seat - Up for sale by soon-to-be ex-Governor of Illinois (36 replies)
Russia is not a candidate for the EU - Will it ever be? (21 replies)
UN split on French/Dutch gay rights declaration - Update to Universal Declaration on Human Rights (31 replies)
U.S. anti-kidnap specialist kidnapped in Mexico - Talk about defeating the object (4 replies)
Canada goes to the polls - October 14, 2008 - Update: GG suspends parliament until January 2009 (73 replies)
Gordon Brown announces UK troops will leave Iraq - All but a few will be gone by June 2009 (14 replies)
Cholera in Zimbabwe - Crisis highlights breakdown of society (7 replies)
The man who has run the US for 8 years looks back - Cheney says, 'I think we've done pretty well' (29 replies)
Citigroup to slash 75,000 jobs - Things are really getting scary now (29 replies)
Iranian court orders the blinding a man with acid - Eye for an eye, he'd blinded a woman the same way (4 replies)
Nebraskan senator loses legal case against God - Ernie Chambers tries to make a point (24 replies)
Mugabe considered to be a 'Modern day Hitler' - So says a senior South African bishop (14 replies)
Protesters in stand-off at Greek Embassy in London - Reaction to shooting of 15yr old by Greek police (62 replies)
Thoughts on the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 - Personal thoughts, not conspiracy discussions (115 replies)
Shoplifting this Christmas due to the recession - A million Brits admit they'd consider doing this (4 replies)
Environmental protest closes Stansted Airport - Runway taken over by ecowarriors, 8.Dec.2008 (88 replies)