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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Cynthia McKinney speak from an Israeli Jail Cell

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Cynthia McKinney speak from an Israeli Jail Cell By Free Gaza Team and Democracy Now!... more

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McCain campaign members: No serious vetting of Palin before selection

It's well known that there were tensions between Arizona Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last year during their... more

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Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits

YouTube - Sarah Mania! All the best moments of Sarah Palin interviews, starring Sarah Palin, Charlies Gibson, Katie Couric,... more

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Iran

Reports of scores of Iranians being killed today by the Islamic Republic's mercenary forces and hundreds injured.

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Diary Of A Maverick

12/7/08 Well, Diary, it’s been a month now, and a whole lot has changed. My life has relaxed quite a bit, at least as... more

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Foreign policy: A 'dear John' letter to Senator McCain

Dear John: Is it very warm in Arizona? You may wonder why I'm asking the question, but having traveled extensively all... more

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Ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman endorsed by McCain for California's next governor

At a rally in California's Orange County former Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain endorsed former eBay... more

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Judge Sotomayor is not a racist

Sherrilyn Ifill, a professor of law at the University of Maryland School, explains why Rush, Newt, Glenn Beck and other Republican... more

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Ashley Todd, McCain Volunteer Who Faked Attack in Pa., Gets Probation

A former John McCain campaign volunteer who falsely claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh because she had the candidate's... more

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U.S. soldier in Baghdad kills four fellow troops before killing himself

It is unclear if the shooter was among the wounded, despite earlier reports that he killed himself, an official said.... more

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The Georgian trap - Part 1

As thousands demanded Saakashvili's resignation, Paul Jay investigated the roots of the 2008 Russia-Georgia War. For five... more

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McCain Seeks Pardon For Boxer Jack Johnson @ BreakRoomLive.com

http://breakroomlive.com BreakRoomLive with Maron and Seder is LIVE weekdays, 3-4pm from the Air America Break Room. McCain... more

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Pardon sought for first black heavyweight champ

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McCain seeks pardon for Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight boxing champ

Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing... more

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Sen. John McCain on Twitter

Sen. John McCain was mercilessly ridiculed by Democrats as computer illiterate during last year's presidential race, but the... more

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Meghan McCain tells critics: 'Kiss my fat ass': Video

After a parade of insults from conservative pundits -- most particularly conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, who called her... more

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John McCain Doing "Twitterview" With George Stephanopoulos

On Tuesday, March 17 at 12 noon on Twitter. George Stephanopoulos is going to attempt to conduct a full interview with John McCain... more

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Why study pig odor? (McCain, are you listening?)

Sen. John McCain (R–Ariz.) is back at it, taking swipes at federally funded animal research projects. First he took on the grizzlies—lambasting studies to gauge whether the mighty creatures were in danger of becoming extinct— and now he's peeved about pigs—or pig odor, to be precise. The former presidential candidate last week mocked a federal set-aside for pig odor research, listing it on his Twitter feed as one of the "Top 10 Porkiest Projects" allocated funding in the latest federal spending bill being debated in Congress. Sen. Tom Coburn (R–Okla.) chimed in on his own Web site that "This earmark is $1.7 million to take the stink out of manure," and pretty soon the blogosphere was snorting about liberal (and pig) waste.

Amid threats to strip the $410-billion bill of its earmarks, Democratic Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin took the floor to passionately defend his state's swine scientists. "People constantly complain, with good reason, about big farms, factory farms and their environmental impacts," he said, "so it makes good sense to fund research that addresses how people can live in our small towns and communities, and livestock producers can do the same, and coexist."

The problem with federal earmarks for scientific research is that they can be doled out based on political connections and lobbying rather than on a grant review by a panel of scientific peers. In this case, the Swine Odor and Manure Management Research Unit at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Ames, Iowa, had been stripped of funding last year by the Bush administration, and this was designed as a way to reboot the program. As Harkin put it, "This item is only included as an earmark now because the last Bush budget proposed to terminate a number of agricultural research projects in order to come in at a lower budget number, knowing full well that this needed research was likely to be restored by Congress."

But what on earth is pig odor research? To find out, we spoke with Jacek Koziel, an agricultural engineer who specializes in livestock odor at Iowa State University and who has helped the ARS team quantify odors for their experiments varying the pig's diet.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]Sen. John McCain (R–Ariz.) is back at it, taking swipes at federally funded animal research projects. First he took on the... more