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Think you???re safe online? Take this quiz
Crime and Safety - Sun-SentinelThe Florida Department of Law Enforcement has a terrific website that addresses practically any concern you could have about the Internet. Called SecureFlorida.org,?? it has??best practice guides for adults and kids and explains??issues both basic and...Tags: Facebook, Culture
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Check in on Foursquare and Save on Gas
KickingTiresAs gas nears the $4-a-gallon mark nationally, social networking giant Foursquare and Murphy Oil are teaming up to offer some relief at the pump. Check in at a Murphy gas station and you'll get $2 off any gas purchase of......Tags: Facebook, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Murphy Oil Corporation
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BMW To Reveal New 3 Series on Facebook
KickingTiresBMW will reveal its new 3 Series sedan via Facebook at 4 p.m. EDT Friday. The event will take place at the company???s world headquarters in Germany and will be broadcast live on the social network. We???ll have our own......Tags: Facebook, Germany, Social Media, File Sharing, Television
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Flashy Cars Help Land Dates, Not Wives
KickingTiresWomen are more attracted to men who engage in frivolous spending ??? like buying exclusive supercars ??? but only briefly, according to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. I???m sure it didn???t take a rocket scientist to figure this......Tags: Medical Specialization, Philosophy, Psychology, Vehicles, Magazines
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Win a 2011 Mazda2 Via Foursquare
KickingTiresAre you one of the millions of people who have succumbed to Foursquare, the latest social networking craze? Well, your addiction to fastidiously documenting your every location may bear more than just a mayorship: You may be eligible to win......Tags: San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC, Behavioral Conditions, Austin (Chicago, Illinois)
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GOP's 'identity crisis,' Rush's 'humbug'
The Swampby Mark Silva When Alex Castellanos, Republican media consultant, wrote that his party is having an "identity crisis... a full-blown public meltdown, complete with teenage existential angst,'' he got the attention of a certain conservative radio talker....Tags: Mitt Romney, John McCain, Philosophy, Values, Republican Party
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Red state, blue state, rich state, poor
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with author interview The upcoming presidential election isn't just a matter of Red State versus Blue State. It's a question of Rich State versus Poor State. "Nowadays, the Democrats win the rich states, but rich......Tags: National Government, University of Chicago, Social Sciences, Polls, Government
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Bush's war regrets
The Swampby Katie Fretland In Europe yesterday, President Bush gave this reflection on the war in Iraq: he could have used different words to indicate a better effort at diplomacy. "First of all, you don't get to do things over in......Tags: Saddam Hussein, National Government, Diplomacy, George W. Bush, Human Rights
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Bush: A compassion comeback
The Swampby Jim Tankersley An old friend made a surprise appearance at President Bush's speech to a conference of faith-based groups this afternoon. Perhaps you remember him. He goes by "compassionate conservatism." The phrase was a staple of the then-Texas...Tags: National Government, White House, Executive Branch, George W. Bush, Government
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Bush's 'armies of compassion' deployed
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush, campaigning for the White House in 2000, pledged to "rally the armies of compassion,'' enlisting faith-based organizations in government-backed aid for the needy. And during his tenure, the federal government has pumped...Tags: National Government, Heads of State, Defense, White House, George W. Bush
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Obama tops McCain by 8: poll
The Swampby Frank James Two interesting polls this morning. The Washington Post has a presidential horse race poll this morning which gives Democrat Sen. Barack Obama a eight-point lead over Republican Sen. John McCain. Of course, all these race track polls......Tags: Democratic Party, Minority Groups, John McCain, Barack Obama, Washington Post Co.
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House considers slavery apology
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown One hundred and forty-three years after the Civil War, and forty-four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lawmakers are poised tonight to apologize for slavery and racial segregation under Jim Crow. Introduced by Rep.......Tags: Minority Groups, History, Civil Rights, Employment Opportunities, National Government
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