Conan O'Brien pays salaries of 80 people

Conan O'Brien is digging deep to help his staff weather the WGA strike. Host of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" will cover the salaries of his non-writing production staff for the foreseeable future, an NBC U spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

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Video: Ron Paul Asked About Medical Marijuana

"Ron Paul is asked what his opinion was on medical marijuana by Clayton Holton, a medical patient who asked Romney and Rudy the same question a few months ago. Rudy ignored him and Romney said he would arrest him for using medical marijuana."Ron Paul is the only HUMAN candidate out there. The others are terrible political robots hellbent on destroying this nation, one tarnished freedom at a time.

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Gamers use PS3s to do biomedical research

I love using it when I've got 15(!) things queued up for background downloading and I can leave it on overnight or for a month straight without having to worry. Even though the wifi at school sucks, at least it's still a built-in option.

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109,263 Errors found in Texas math textbooks

One second-grade math book, for example, has 4 plus 7 equaling 10, the San Antonio Express-News reported Friday.

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Happy Birthday PS3! 5.6 Million Sold

Sony's little baby turns one. The PS3 has been crawling along, but can it walk or maybe even run? Sony is still aiming for 11 million units sold this fiscal year with 160 new games.

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PICS: Bush comes face to face with the horrors of his war.

A Reuters slideshow.

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What we should all be teaching our kids: how to say no to a police state

Have you talked to your kids about liberty today?

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All Drugs Should Be Legalized

While Digging a few minutes ago, I came across this article from populistamerica.com. I just have to share it. In non-hostile language, our author Harry Browne makes an insightful, perfectly logical case for legalizing drugs. He takes the vitriol and brings it down where it belongs — at the common sense level.

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WOW I can't believe FOX aired this!

I start to worry when mainstream talks logically..

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Drummer of Decapitated dead at 23

Drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka of the Polish extreme metal band DECAPITATED passed away in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision. He was 23 years old. Vitek was a very influential drummer for me growing up. This is a terrible loss.

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Westboro Church of "God Hates Fags" Ordered to Pay $2.9 Million

Westboro Baptist Church, the group led by Fred Phelps made infamous by its website www.godhatesfags.com, has been ordered by a Maryland court to pay $2.9 million to a grieving father who sued in response to their picketing of his son's funeral, a soldier killed in Iraq.

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VIDEO: Ron Paul Gets Massive Applause on the Tonight Show

Highlights from the show:- Jay asked all the right questions. Did his research.- Had Ron on for 2 segments. Brought him back after the commercial break.- Plugged his book A Foreign Policy of Freedom.- A woman who has gone to every Jay Leno taping for the past 3 years said, “the only guests to have this many people outside hoping to get...

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