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Citizens United Attacks From Justice Stevens →
A day after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, retired Justice John Paul Stevens on Wednesday night backed President Barack Obama’s suggestion during his 2010 State of the Union address that the Citizens United decision could lead to “foreign entities” bankrolling American elections. He urged the U.S. Supreme Court to explicitly explain why the president’s words were “not true,” as...
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Edwards not guilty on 1 count, mistrial on 5...
justinspoliticalcorner: Judge rules a mistrial on the other 5 counts; it’s up to the prosecutors on whether they try Edwards again. -@NBCNews — HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 31, 2012
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Occupy The Bronx: The Blue Bloc Targets OWS →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: The Blue Bloc is made up of the local, state and federal law enforcement (sic) officers and agents who have unleashed a coordinated, relentless, and often unlawful assault on the Occupy movement for more than eight months now.  The Blue Bloc possesses a wide array of taxpayer subsidized, military-style weaponry – including biological (pepper spray) and sonic (LRAD) – in...
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Advocating Progress: Say it with me now: →
thisgingersnapsback: Dr. George Tiller’s killing was not justifiable homicide, it was murder. Blowing up abortion clinics is terrorism. Defacing and covering abortion clinics in graffiti is vandalism. Chanting “You’re next!” at doctors and clinic administrators is threatening…
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A veteran risks all to get homes for the homeless →
nbclatino: (Photos courtesy The Vet Hunters Project) U.S. Army veteran, Joe Leal, was born in rural Harlingen, Texas, to a mother addicted to drugs and spent many of his childhood years homeless. In order to change his destiny, he joined the Army at 18. Nearly 20 years later, he…
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MAJOR REVELATIONS IN JOHN DOE PROBE →
justinspoliticalcorner: Scott Walker Mistakenly Admits He is Under Investigation After the mistaken admission that he is under investigation Scott Walker has spent $160,000 of campaign money on his criminal defense attorneys in the past six weeks alone. Walker’s campaign released a statement from the first-term Republican saying he would use the defense fund to pay his two...
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Radioactive bluefin tuna from Japan in U.S. waters →
For the first time, scientists have discovered that tuna contaminated by last year’s radiation leak from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have crossed the Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 miles, into U.S. waters,. Levels of radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 have been found at ten times the normal levels in fish off of the coast of California. The current levels, say officials, are still below the...
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Over 10,000 live animals are violently mutilated... →
In the video, course instructors repeatedly break and cut off the limbs of live goats with tree trimmers, stab the animals with scalpels, cut holes in them, and pull out their organs... WHILE THE ANIMALS ARE CONSCIOUS - AS PART OF A TRAUMA TRAINING EXERCISE. Former students at 18 Delta Special Forces Combat Medical School might reference it as ‘Goat Lab’, but let’s not forget the brave goats,...
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Theft is ok for a white guy in Silicon Valley →
foxtalbotnegatives: bankuei: “He’d been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company’s food, and exercising and showering in its gym.” Basically, Eric Simons moves into the AOL work campus, lives on the couches, eats the food, showers, uses the gym, does laundry there - for two months straight to work on HIS startup stuff for his own profit. Compare...
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Cicely Isabel Fairfield known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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“One-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their...”
–  A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)
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Poverty is Not an Accident
revolutionaryatheist: via jobsanger.blogspot.com
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Ohio set to Execute Severely Mentally Ill Man →
thepoliticalfreakshow: On June 6, Ohio is scheduled to execute Abdul Awkal for the murder of his estranged wife and brother-in-law unless Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) grants a pending clemency petition, or a court steps in with a last minute order. Here are the facts about the mental health of the man set to be executed next Wednesday: To see more about these Abdul Awkal facts click the link. ...
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