Political Rift: January 2015

Saturday, January 31, 2015

"U.S. Army pulls tweet for using the word “chinks”" - in #Independent

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By KATHY GILL, Technology Policy Analyst

On Friday, the U.S. Army used the word “chink” to describe intelligence community vulnerability to terrorist use of social media communication. Twitter exploded with cries of race bai...

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"U.S. Army pulls tweet for using the word “chinks”" - in #Independent

"5 Ways the Middle Class Is Getting Screwed" - in #Conservative

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By John Hawkins My latest Townhall column is called, 5 Ways the Middle Class Is Getting Screwed. Here’s an excerpt from the column. When Democrats talk about middle class Americans, they almost inevitably
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"5 Ways the Middle Class Is Getting Screwed" - in #Conservative

"John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite" - in #Liberal

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Larry Ellison, 5th richest on the Forbes list, on one of his smaller yachts
Not long after I began blogging, in my post “Rich, Poor and Middle-Class,” I wrote:
I am deeply concerned about the poor, because they are...

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"John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite" - in #Liberal

"2015 Libertarian State Conventions (listing in progress)" - in #Independent

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By paulie

Wes Benedict
Wes Benedict has posted …
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"Joseph Kishore: The World Socialist Web Site and the Greek Elections" - in #Independent

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By Jed Ziggler

Email from Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Joseph Kishore:
Dear SEP Supporters,
Readers of the World Socialist Web Site over the past week will have noticed that we are in the midst of a major fund...

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"‘Toasted Twee': Brooklyn warehouse fire makes a Twitter star out of Hipster Frame Guy" - in #Conservative

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By Brett Taylor

Saturday’s massive seven-alarm warehouse blaze in Brooklyn won well deserved respect for New York City’s firefighters, some of whom battled the fire for hours while literally covered in ice. If there...

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"Hatred SPEWED at Texas lawmaker for asking ‘Texas Muslim Capitol Day’ attendees to renounce terrorism" - in #Conservative

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By soopermexican

Conservative Republican Texas Representative Molly White offended every liberal who …
Read more here:: Hatred SPEWED at Texas lawmaker for asking ‘Texas Muslim Capitol Day’ attendees to renounce terrorism

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"Drag queens respond to Mary Cheney’s question of why drag is acceptable if blackface isn’t" - in #Independent

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By David Ferguson World of Wonder — the media company that produces the reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race — responded on Friday to a question posed by Mary Cheney: Why is drag acceptable when blackface isn’t? Mary Che...

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"Drag queens respond to Mary Cheney’s question of why drag is acceptable if blackface isn’t" - in #Independent

"Quebec Woman Raped In Backseat Of Cop Car Files Lawsuit" - in #Independent

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By Karen Eisenberg

Quebec Woman Raped In Backseat Of Cop Car Files Lawsuit
Quebec Woman Raped In Backseat Of Cop Car Files Lawsuit
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"Unsustainable: If we all eat meat, we’re doomed" - in #Independent

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By Newsweek A growing body of evidence shows the impact that unsustainable levels of meat consumption – particularly of meats like beef and lamb – have on the planet. As shown in a recent Chatham House report, the livestock sec...

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"Unsustainable: If we all eat meat, we’re doomed" - in #Independent

"San Francisco Police detain two suspects over body parts in suitcase" - in #Independent

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By David Ferguson San Francisco police said on Friday night they had detained two people in connection with a case involving a suitcase full of body parts discovered on a downtown street earlier this week. An anonymous tip...

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"‘This is very disturbing’: WH pressured Hagel to step up pace of Gitmo releases [video]" - in #Conservative

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By Doug Powers

Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted that he was under pressure from White House officials to step up the controversial releases of detainees from Gitmo:
In the Obama WH, politics trumps national...

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"The FIVE teams hit WORST by crony capitalism in the NFL" - in #Conservative

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By soopermexican

Can you guess which NFL teams have been hit worst …
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"The FIVE teams hit WORST by crony capitalism in the NFL" - in #Conservative

"This is what would happen to your body on Mars without a spacesuit" - in #Independent

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By Medical Daily As outlined by the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and the U.S. National Space Policy, by the 2030s NASA plans to send humans to Mars. But NASA isn’t alone in its galactic ambitions; nonprofit...

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"GOP: Forget Obama taxing 529's, let's expand them" - in #Conservative

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Rep. Lynn Jenkins gives the Republican Party’s Weekly Remarks
Good
morning. I’m Lynn Jenkins, Congresswoman from the Second District of
Kansas and Vice-Chair of the House Republican Conference.
This is
the time of year...

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"‘Horrific’ pre-historic shark makes a rare appearance in Australian waters" - in #Independent

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By RedOrbit A fishing crew in Australia had a surprise guest in their catch recently, after snaring a rarely seen shark with 300 teeth and a terrifying, pre-historic appearance that was enough to make even Australian fisherman go...

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"US support for satirizing religion breaks along racial lines: Pew" - in #Independent

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By McClatchy Washington Bureau To the issues dividing Americans by race, add the publication of satirical cartoons about religion. A survey released by the Pew Research Center this week found that Americans, by more than 2-to-1,...

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"This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-January 31" - in #Conservative

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By Ed Whelan 2006—Upon the Senate’s confirmation of Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination, Justice O’Connor’s July 2005 decision to retire takes effect. Plucked by President Reagan from the obscurity of a...

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"Al-Qaeda in Yemen downgrades US on enemy list because of weak leadership..." - in #Independent

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By Bluegrass Pundit

We are now below the French. How embarrassing. Thanks President Obama. Dubai (AFP) – The ideological leader of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said Friday that France had surpassed the U...

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"Al-Qaeda in Yemen downgrades US on enemy list because of weak leadership..." - in #Independent

"NYPD equates terrorists and protesters..." - in #Independent

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By Bluegrass Pundit Do the police really need machine guns to deal with protesters? What happened to water cannons?
Via The NY Post: The NYPD will launch a unit of 350 cops to handle both counterterrorism and protests — riding v...

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"NYPD equates terrorists and protesters..." - in #Independent

"‘Play on our team’: Gay dating app goes to the 2015 Super Bowl" - in #Independent

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By Newsweek As football fans make the drive to Arizona’s University of Phoenix Stadium for the Super Bowl, they will see two 48- by 14-foot digital billboards featuring a couple of buff men in a locker room, holding...

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"Spurred by Pope Francis, Spain charges 10 priests in country’s largest known pedophilia case" - in #Independent

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By Agence France-Presse Spain’s Catholic Church, which has long been accused of silencing cases of priests sexually abusing children, is starting to take a hard line against offenders, spurred by Pope Francis. A judge in...

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"Spurred by Pope Francis, Spain charges 10 priests in country’s largest known pedophilia case" - in #Independent

"Obama’s Basketball Diary – Intellectual Froglegs 01.25.15" - in #Conservative

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By Joe Dan Gorman TROUBLE VIEWING? Click here to watch on YouTube…OR, Click here to watch on Popmodal We found a little video of Obama shooting basketball…. And out of 22 shots, he missed
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"Obama’s Basketball Diary – Intellectual Froglegs 01.25.15" - in #Conservative

"Republicans have clever new plan for failure" - in #Conservative

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By noreply@blogger.com (Vox) The establishment’s “electable” candidate in 2016 will not be Mitt Romney:In a talk with his eldest son, Tagg, between runs down the mountain on Monday, Mr. Romney, 67, said he had...

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"China Syndrome Liberalism" - in #Conservative

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By Jonah Goldberg EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly “news”letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.Dear Reader (unless you’re Suge Knight, who ...

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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"Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant" - in #PoliticalHumor

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Friday, January 30, 2015

"10 reasons Christian heaven would actually be hell" - in #Independent

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By Valerie Tarico, AlterNet Maybe descriptions of Hell are so horrific to keep people from thinking about how hellish popular versions of the Christian Heaven would be—even without Pat Robertson in the mix. Most Westerners are at ...

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"10 reasons Christian heaven would actually be hell" - in #Independent

"Denver teen’s parents demand feds investigate why police shot her dead" - in #Independent

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By Reuters The parents of a 17-year-old girl shot dead this week by Denver police while she was driving a stolen car have called for a U.S. Justice Department civil rights investigation into her death. The teen’s parents,...

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"At Freedom’s Expense (Cartoon)" - in #Conservative

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By A.F. Branco http://comicallyincorrect.com/2015/01/30/epa-oppression/
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"At Freedom’s Expense (Cartoon)" - in #Conservative

"Bill Maher and his panel commend Michelle Obama for not respecting Saudis’ ‘medieval bullsh*t’" - in #Independent

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By Arturo Garcia Real Time host Bill Maher compared himself to First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday, following her recent visit to Saudi Arabia with President Barack Obama. “I thought that she was kind of making the statement that ...

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"Jagged Edge Singer Arrested After Allegedly Trying To Shove Engagement Ring Down Fiancée’s Throat" - in #Conservative

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By Warner Todd Huston Apparently his song title isn’t the only “jagged edge” about rap singer Kyle Norman. Looks like his personality is a bit irregular, too. The singer has been arrested for beating
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"‘Snipers aren’t cowards, they’re SAVIORS’ – Chris Kyle’s brother" - in #Conservative

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By soopermexican

Jeff Kyle went on Sean Hannity’s show to defend the …
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"Stanford researchers discover how to trick cells into believing they are younger" - in #Independent

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By Scott Kaufman Researchers at Stanford Medical Center have discovered a means to extend the length of telomeres — the protective caps at the tips of chromosomes responsible for aging — io9′s George Dvorsky reports. The telom...

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"Romney’s Out, Welcomes New Generation Of Candidates" - in #Conservative

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By Lonely Conservative

The big news today is that Mitt Romney told supporters that he will not be running for president in 2016. Oh, and it doesn’t sound like he will be endorsing Jeb Bush. During his phone call to...

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"Biden: “The past six years have been really, really hard for this country”" - in #Conservative

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By The Right Scoop

Biden says he is stating the obvious, that the past …
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"Biden: “The past six years have been really, really hard for this country”" - in #Conservative

"‘This is a critical point’: Arizona health officials fear Super Bowl could worsen measles outbreak" - in #Independent

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By Scott Kaufman As tens of thousands of people descend on Phoenix for this weekend’s Super Bowl, public health officials in Arizona are scrambling to contain the state’s growing measles outbreak, ABC News reports....

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"Mitt Romney Decides Against Third Presidential Run" - in #Independent

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By JANET SHAN
Two-time failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not throwing his hat in the ring for a third time. No binders full of women jokes this election cycle.
Mitt Romney released a statement to his supporters: “After ...

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"After shouting down Texas Muslims, activist dares Franklin Graham to take over a mosque" - in #Independent

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By Travis Gettys An end times-obsessed Christian activist dared the Rev. Franklin Graham to hold church services at a mosque to defy what she sees as Muslim oppression in America. “They came into our churches and held a call of p...

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"Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016" - in #Independent

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By Scott Kaufman Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced today that he will not be seeking the party’s nomination for the 2016 election, the New York Times reports. The former Massachusetts governor...

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"Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016" - in #Independent

"WATCH: Idaho Republican nearly cries as committee kills bill banning LGBT discrimination" - in #Independent

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By Eric W. Dolan A Republican state lawmaker in Idaho voted against legislation to prohibit discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people — but appeared genuinely upset about the fate of the bill. “My hea...

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"WATCH: Idaho Republican nearly cries as committee kills bill banning LGBT discrimination" - in #Independent

"15-Year-Old Illinois Girl Pleads Guilty; Will Serve Less Than Six Years For Fatally Stabbing Younger Sister" - in #Independent

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By Jared Keever

15-Year-Old Illinois Girl Pleads Guilty; Will Serve Less Than Six Years For Fatally Stabbing Younger Sister
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"Well I’m just going to put this right here…" - in #Conservative

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By The Right Scoop

What a way to start a Friday morning: Consider this …
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"Well I’m just going to put this right here…" - in #Conservative

"Sarah Palin inadvertently becomes co-chair of Hillary PAC after disastrous Iowa speech raises $25K" - in #Independent

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By Tom Boggioni Sarah Palin’s rambling, incoherent speech at Iowa’s Freedom Summit proved to be as profitable for a potential Hillary Clinton presidential run as it was detrimental to any future Palin political...

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"Sarah Palin inadvertently becomes co-chair of Hillary PAC after disastrous Iowa speech raises $25K" - in #Independent

"Bipartisan Senate Passed Keystone Bill, Obama Will Veto Anyway" - in #Conservative

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By Lonely Conservative

President Obama is constantly chiding Congress to work in a bipartisan fashion, but what he really wants is for Republicans to cave in to his demands. So it’s no surprise that he plans to veto the...

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"Duke’s Belle Knox trades on porn fame to promote libertarians Ayn Rand and Rand Paul" - in #Independent

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By Travis Gettys Duke University porn star Belle Knox is eyeing a possible career in politics. The second-year student, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, has been promoting her libertarian views as campus coordinator of Students...

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"If you’re worried about censorship or bullying, conservatives are the bigger problem" - in #Independent

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By Amanda Marcotte For those who are following the drama of Jonathan Chait’s sloppily argued piece against “political correctness”, I wrote a piece rebutting at Talking Points Memo. Since the discussions around these things ...

Read More...If you’re worried about censorship or bullying, conservatives are the bigger problem

"Megan McArdle slams libs who mock Joni Ernst and her ‘bread bags’" - in #Conservative

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By gpollowitz

We posted last night on how an activist from the Florida chapter of the NOW was caught on video mocking Joni Ernst’s story from her SOTU response on how she was so poor growing up that she’d have to wear...

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"NY Times: Say, Getting Rid Of The Ocare Medical Device Tax Is A Bad Idea" - in #Conservative

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By William Teach In Liberal World, getting rid of any tax is a bad idea. This comes our way via the extremely well paid people who sit on the low diversity Editorial Board
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"NY Times: Say, Getting Rid Of The Ocare Medical Device Tax Is A Bad Idea" - in #Conservative

"Obama to announce massive DNA study to sequence one million human genomes" - in #Independent

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By Reuters The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual’s...

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"One Percent Update: Hillary liked to fly in style on your dime..." - in #Independent

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By Bluegrass Pundit

Out of touch…
Via Bloomberg Hillary Clinton took more than 200 privately chartered flights at taxpayer expense during her eight years in the U.S. Senate, sometimes using the jets of corporations and...

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"Rap mogul Suge Knight killed a man on a movie set: report" - in #Independent

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By Agence France-Presse Los Angeles police say rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is a “person of interest” in a hit-and-run that left one man dead and another person in the hospital. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spok...

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"Medical extortion" - in #Conservative

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By noreply@blogger.com (Vox) Pediatricians are increasingly behaving in an openly unethical manner:With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting room and on Facebook: His...

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