// Expanding News Headline Code Copyright 2005, The People's Email Network, Patent Pending, All Rights Reserved


function writeNews (txt) {
 if (document.layers) {
   document.layers.oped2.document.open();
   document.layers.oped2.document.write(txt);
   document.layers.oped2.document.close();   
   }
 else if (document.all) {
   oped2.innerHTML = txt;
   }
 else if (document.getElementById) {
   document.getElementById("oped2").innerHTML = txt;
   }
 }

nState = 1;
dC = 0;

function nE() {
  if (timer1) {
    clearTimeout(timer1);
    }
  if ((nState == 1) && (dC == 0)) {
//    alert(dC);
    writeNews(news2b);
    nState = 2;
    }
  }

timer1 = null;

function nC1() {
  if (nState == 2) {
   // timer1 = setTimeout('nC2();', 5000);    // autoclose if enabled
    }
  }

function nC2() {
  if (timer1) {
    clearTimeout(timer1);
    }
  if (nState == 2) {
    writeNews(news2a);
    nState = 1;
    }
  }

function nC3() {
  dC = 1;
  nC2();
  setTimeout('dC=0',1000);
  }



news1 = '<font size="1" face="verdana" color=black style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;color:#000000;text-align:left;">';

news1 += '<b>TOP EDITORIALS:</b><br>';news1 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/L-A-Puts-the-Public-Back-by-Sue-Wilson-100311-46.html" target="_top">L.A. Puts the Public Back in the Public Interest</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Sue Wilson</font><br>';
news1 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Dick-Durbin-Betrayal-by-the-web-100311-902.html" target="_top">Dick Durbin: Betrayal!</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by the web</font><br>';
news1 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Tell-the-Washington-Post--by-Media-Matters-100311-353.html" target="_top">Tell the Washington Post: You\'ve Gone Too Far</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Media Matters</font><br>';
news1 += '</font>';


news2a = '<table width=140 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td><font size="1" face="verdana" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;color:#000000;text-align:left;"><br><b>MORE HEADLINES:</b><br>';
news2a += 'Mouseover to unfold . .<br></font></td><td background="http://www.opednews.com/images/lightblue10.gif"></td></tr></table>';

news2b = '<font size="1" face="verdana" color=black style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;color:#000000;text-align:left;">';


news2b += '<img src="http://www.opednews.com/images/closex2a3.gif" width=125 height=12 border=0><a href="javascript:nC3();" onClick="self.focus();"><img src="http://www.opednews.com/images/closex2b3.gif" width=15 height=12 border=0></a><br>';

news2b += '<table width=140 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 border=1 bordercolor=black background="http://www.opednews.com/images/white10.gif"><tr><td bgcolor="FFFFFF" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10;color:black;text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opednews.com/syndicate.htm" onMouseOver="nE();" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10;color:black;text-decoration:none;"><b>Get Free OpEdNews</b></a><br>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opednews.com/syndicate.htm" onMouseOver="nE();" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:10;color:black;text-decoration:none;"><b>headlines for your site</b></a></td></tr></table><br>';

news2 = '';

news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Thomas-Jefferson-on-Studen-by-Thom-Hartmann-100311-114.html" target="_top">Thomas Jefferson on Student Lending....</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Thom Hartmann</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Slick-Barry-and-the-100-B-by-Dave-Lindorff-100311-827.html" target="_top">Slick Barry and the $100-Billion Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Claim</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Dave Lindorff</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/2010-The-Year-for-Re-Buil-by-Kevin-Martin-100308-635.html" target="_top">2010, The Year for Re-Building the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Kevin Martin</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Are-We-Still-in-Afghan-by-George-Washington-100310-367.html" target="_top">Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by George Washington</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rebuild-and-Retool-America-by-Henry-Pelifian-100310-758.html" target="_top">Rebuild and Retool America</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Henry Pelifian</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Raging-Grannies-Flip-The-B-by-Daniel-Tilson-100310-92.html" target="_top">Raging Grannies Flip The Bird At Supreme Court Five</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Daniel Tilson</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hey-you-Yeah-I-m-Talkin-by-Stephen-Pizzo-100311-990.html" target="_top">Hey, you. Yeah, I\'m Talkin\' to YOU</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Stephen Pizzo</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Obama-and-Dems-Seem-In-by-Jim-Hightower-100311-162.html" target="_top">Why Obama and Dems Seem Incapable of Taking a Firm Stand on Anything</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Jim Hightower</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Reconsidering-Iraq-What-I-by-Richard-Wise-100311-610.html" target="_top">Reconsidering Iraq: What If We Had Been Greeted as Liberators?</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Richard Wise</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-South-Africa-World-Cup-by-Dave-Zirin-100311-971.html" target="_top">The South Africa World Cup: Invictus in Reverse</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Dave Zirin</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/With-Pluck-American-Libera-by-Thomas-Farrell-100307-32.html" target="_top">With Pluck American Liberals Should Fight Today\'s Conservatives</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Thomas Farrell</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Long-Ago-and-Far-Away-by-David-Glenn-Cox-100310-386.html" target="_top">Long Ago and Far Away</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by David Glenn Cox</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Clash-of-Cultures-Is-I-by-Thomas-Farrell-100307-461.html" target="_top">The Clash of Cultures Is Inevitable, but Violence May Not Be</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Thomas Farrell</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Texas-Terrible-Tuesday-Ele-by-JoyceMcCloy-100307-371.html" target="_top">Texas Terrible Tuesday Election - the dust settles over the fiasco</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Joyce McCloy</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-JFK-CASE--THE-OFFICE-by-Bill-Simpich-100310-266.html" target="_top">The JFK Case; the Office that Spied on its Own Spies</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Bill Simpich</font><br>';
news2 += '<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/J-Street--Two-Years-after-by-Dan-Lieberman-100307-3.html" target="_top">J Street - Two Years after its Formation</a><br><font color="#DD0000">by Dan Lieberman</font><br>';
news2 += '</font>';

news2b += news2;





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document.write('<tr><td width=150 height=1 bgcolor=black></td></tr>');
document.write('<tr><td valign=top width="150">');
document.write('<a href="http://www.opednews.com" target="_top"><img src="http://www.opednews.com/images/oped_headline1.gif" width=150 height=34 border=0></a><br>');
document.write('<a href="http://www.millionphonemarch.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.opednews.com/images/troops_dome2.gif" width=150 height=35 border=0></a><br>');



document.write('<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td width=5></td><td width=140 align=left>');
document.write('<span name=oped1 id=oped1>' + news1 + '</span></td><td width=5></td></tr></table>');
document.write('<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td width=5></td><td width=140 align=left>');
document.write('<span name=oped2 id=oped2>'+ news2a +'</span></td><td width=5></td></tr></table>');
document.write('<tr><td width=150 height=1 bgcolor=black></td></tr>');
document.write('</table>');

