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United States v. Jones : SCOTUSblog: "Holding: Attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and then using the device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. Judgment: Affirmed, in an opinion by Justice Scalia on January 23, 2012. Justice Sotomayor filed a concurring opinion. Justice Alito also filed a concurring opinion, which was joined by Justices Ginsburg,

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The Man Behind Gingrich’s Money - NYTimes.com: "The question of what motivates Mr. Adelson’s singular generosity toward the former House speaker has emerged front and center in the campaign. People who know him say his affinity for Mr. Gingrich stems from a devotion to Israel as well as loyalty to a friend. A fervent Zionist who opposes any territorial compromise to make way for a Palestinian

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Winning Our Future | Blood Money [FULL] - YouTube: " " .. .ero .

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150 Arrested in Daylong Occupy Oakland Protests - ABC News:  "Police spokesman Jeff Thomason says most of the arrests came around 8 p.m. That's when police took about 100 protesters into custody as they marched through the city's downtown, with some entering a YMCA building. About 20 demonstrators were arrested earlier in the afternoon, after police say they threw rocks, bottles and other

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Image by Tom Lohdan via FlickrCatholic Worker News: Almost Forty Anti-Torture Activists Arrested at White House: “We came to the White House because just eleven days ago, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act. It is dead wrong,” says Leah Grady Sayvetz, an activist and college student form Ithaca, New York arrested this afternoon. “The NDAA makes Guantanamo near-permanent

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FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media: "The FBI has conducted market research and determined that a geospatial alert and analysis mapping application is the best known solution for attaining and disseminating real time open source intelligence and improving the FBI’s overall situational awareness." .. .ero . 

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FCC commissioner questions whether Comcast misled regulators - The Hill's Hillicon Valley: "“Were they purchased under false pretenses?” McDowell asked Wednesday night at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to Deadline.com. McDowell, currently the lone Republican on the commission, was likely referring to comments that Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis made at a conference last

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whitehouse's Channel - YouTube:On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET, President Obama will speak to the nation in his annual State of the Union address.Starting today, you can ask President Obama the questions that are on your mind about the direction of the country and vote on others that you think should be asked. He'll answer several of your top-voted questions during a special

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Image via Wikipedia How the media enable the Republican tax agenda: Mike Lofgren, the former Republican congressional staffer who recently decried the descent of the GOP into lunacy, blames the press for not holding politicians accountable for their budgetary flimflam in the service of the rich. The result: A miserably misinformed public. .. .ero . Related articles

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Image via Wikipedia Image by Getty Images via @daylife BBC News - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recall petition filed: "A campaign to force Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker into a special election has gathered an estimated million signatures, say state officials." .. .ero . Related articles Democrats: 1 million signatures collected for Wisconsin governor recall

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Let Freedom Ring - MLK Rap Song - YouTube: ""...ero.

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Image via Wikipedia Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: Safe icon or radical organizer? - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com: But modern powerbrokers, in their prosaic tributes, tend to forget the Martin Luther King Jr. whose causes would have a stinging resonance in 2012 America. But modern powerbrokers, in their prosaic tributes, tend to forget the Martin Luther King Jr. whose causes would have

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Image via Wikipedia Stephen Colbert to Explore (or Pretend to) Run for President - NYTimes.com: On Thursday night’s “Colbert Report,” Mr. Colbert took it a big step further, handing control of his group to his friend and fellow host Jon Stewart so that he can legally run for president, or at least pretend to. Mr. Colbert, who has comically flirted with — and mocked the possibility of — runs

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Image via Wikipedia Congressman Tim Bishop : Latest News : BISHOP URGES WHITE HOUSE ACTION ON CALL CENTER INSOURCING: In a letter, Bishop urged the President to consider the "U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act, " the bipartisan bill he sponsored to bar corporations that outsource U.S. call center jobs from receiving federal grants and loans, as a framework for Executive action to

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Image via Wikipedia Montana high court upholds ban on election spending by corporations | Great Falls Tribune | greatfallstribune.com: "The Montana court agreed with Bullock's argument that past political corruption,led by the famed Butte "Copper Kings" that dominated state politics long ago,gives Montana a compelling interest in regulating corporate spending. They pointed out also that

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(Not) A Message From Verizon or Verizon Wireless - YouTube:...ero. ""...ero.

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Weekly Address: The President and First Lady Thank our Troops for their Service this Holiday Season - YouTube: ""...ero.

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Image via WikipediaNorth Korea says leader Kim Jong Il has died - latimes.com: "Kim’s death was announced by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. No cause of death was reported, but Kim was believed to have suffered in recent years from diabetes and heart disease." .. .ero . Related articlesBREAKING NEWS: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies at 69 (dailymail.co.uk)

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Image via WikipediaBBC News - ICC says Muammar Gaddafi killing may be war crime: The death of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi "creates suspicions" of war crimes, says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the ICC was raising the concern with Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC). Col Gaddafi was killed on 20 October after being caught by

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Image via WikipediaStop Corporate Funded Voter Suppression http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/alec/ For years, the right wing has been trying to stop Black people, other people of color, young people, and the elderly from voting - and now some of America's biggest companies are helping them do it. These companies have helped pass discriminatory voter ID legislation by funding a right wing policy

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Do Something - Celebrity Mash-up PSA - YouTube: ""'via Blog this'

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Image by heraldpost via FlickrBlack History Month: Are We Still Slaves?:  "“I freed a thousand slaves,” Harriet Tubman famously said.  “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”" Related articlesWho Was Harriet Tubman (socyberty.com) What was harriet Tubman's single greatest accomplishment (wiki.answers.com) The Black Bucket List: Underground Railroad (

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Occupy Wall Street & Vampire Squid Chronicles - YouTube: ""'via Blog this'

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Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis - YouTube: "Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis" Related articlesPolice Pepper Spray Peaceful UC Davis Students (alan.com) Eyewitness account of pepper-spraying officer from UC Davis student: "Stop. No. I want to spray these kids." (boingboing.net) UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video (

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Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution: "New York, NY — The NYPD have been occupying Liberty Square since 1:00am Tuesday morning, with the brand new occupation now set to enter its second day in just a few short hours. But will anyone listen to them when their message is so incoherent? "What are their demands?" asked social historian Patrick Bruner. "They have not articulated

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Image via WikipediaOccupy America: Citizens United Against Corporate Personhood « SpeakEasy:  "by Rick Staggenborg When Adbusters Magazine called for an occupation of Wall Street, it recommended that occupiers have a specific political goal in mind. Their short list of suggestions included calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood, the Supreme Court doctrine that

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Image by Danny McL via FlickrShot by police with rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland - YouTube: "Shot by police with rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland" 'via Blog this' While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations

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The Indypendent » How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World:We talk of how ideology divides the left but here empathy overflows ideas. Fighting over abstractions seems silly when sleeping on cold concrete. Out of need, we help each other and find meaning no book or leader can offer us. In these new values a collective vision takes shape. In the donating of sleeping bags is the value

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Daily Kos :: News Community Action: "Dear tea party, we are not your enemy byMark Sumner" Conservative economics just doesn't work. We've tried it for thirty years now. Tax rates are down by 60% on the people at the top. Their salaries are way up. They are sitting on record piles of cash. So are the corporations they control. For everyone else, things have gotten worse. And the only answer they

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Protesters Speak about Injured Veteran, Call for Citywide Strike. Category: Extra from The Berkeley Daily Planet: "Protesters Speak about Injured Veteran, Call for Citywide Strike" >>> Iraq Veterans Against the War, a group Olsen worked with, said Olsen was injured when he was struck by a police projectile and suffered a fractured skill. Tuesday night, police blocked the entire plaza including

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Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone: "What nobody is comfortable with is a movement in which virtually the entire spectrum of middle class and poor Americans is on the same page, railing against incestuous political and financial corruption on Wall Street and in Washington" 'via Blog this'

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"Civil disobedience will not be tolerated". ~~ Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Related articlesMayor Tom Menino: We Are Moving Boston Foward (wzlx.radio.com) Menino: Warren must be 'saleable' (boston.com) Mayor pedals brand with Hub bikes (bostongreen.wordpress.com) Mayors send letter urging casino passage (boston.com) Menino: Debt Default A "Catastrophe" For Boston (bostonist.com)

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Wake Up Everybody - YouTube: "Wake Up Everybody"

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Local 372 Says "Stop the Layoffs!" - YouTube: "Local 372 Says "Stop the Layoffs!"" STOP THE LAYOFFS!SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!SAVE OUR COMMUNITIES!Tuesday, October 4th4:00 pm to 6:00 pm atCity Hall(Broadway & Barclay St.)(Trains: 4,5,6 to Brooklyn Bridge; N,R to City Hall; 2,3 to Park Place; A,C to Chambers St.)     More than 700 dedicated school aides, family paraprofessionals, parent coordinators

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Randi Rhodes: "What the hell is happening on Wall Street? " Monday, October 3, 2011 What the hell is happening on Wall Street?  You have a bunch of bums and scofflaws who don’t work for a living,  down there causing all sorts of problems… and then these protestors showed up.  There were 700 arrests of people in the movement to occupy Wall Street.  That’s about 700 more arrests than

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October 1969 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001... The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam was a large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.http://web.ncf.ca/fl512/government/ch... (Transcript of audio) In observance of the Moratorium, the defendants in the Chicago Seven Trial wore black armbands

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Courthouse News Service: " MANHATTAN (CN) - The 2nd Circuit seemed doubtful Friday of the jurisdiction claimed by a New York federal judge who prevented Ecuadorean natives from enforcing an $18.2 billion verdict against Chevron for environmental damage. Chevron has spent the better part of a decade fighting claims that its predecessor, Texaco, dumped billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into

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We the People | The White House: "Throughout our history Americans have used petitions to unite around issues they care about. We the People provides you with a new way to petition the federal government to take action on a range of issues. And if your petition attracts enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it is sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official

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AMAZING WORD GAME Did you know that, the words "race car" spelled backwards still spells "race car"? And that "eat" is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the last, spells its own past tense, "ate"? And if you rearrange the letters in "Tea Party Republicans," and add just a few more letters, it spells: "Shut the f^c& up you free-loading, progress-blocking,

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Marriage, divorce rates higher in the South, lower in Northeast - USATODAY.com: ""This does not mean you should move to the Northeast if you want your marriage to last," says sociologist Andrew Cherlin of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who has reviewed the data."'via Blog this' .. .ero .

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Sacco and Vanzetti - encyclopedia article about Sacco and Vanzetti.: Sacco and Vanzetti Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed (1927) The 1920 armed robbery and murder trial of the young Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was one of the most controversial in US history. Though some believed the verdict was just, others argued that the two men were innocent and were only found

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Image via WikipediaTell Verizon: Stop Attacking the Middle Class: "While Verizon is taking in massive profits and paying its execs richly, it’s trying to force outrageous cuts on workers—which amount to $20,000 per Verizon family. Today, 45,000 Verizon workers are on strike to stop the attack on the middle class, and they need our support." Dear Mr. McAdam, I stand in solidarity with the

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‪FDR's 2nd Bill Of Rights‬‏ - YouTube: "FDR's 2nd Bill Of Rights" .. .ero Related articlesBill of Rights Assignment (lepleyandhistory.wordpress.com) Serving Our Social Betters: "Longevity Gains Tax" GOP Answer (middle-class-populist.com)

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The Daily Beast: "KANDAHAR MAYOR KILLED BY TURBAN BOMB" a TURBAN bomb? ugggh! .. .ero .Related articlesKandahar Mayor Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack (news.sky.com) Kandahar mayor killed by suicide bomb (guardian.co.uk) Kandahar mayor killed in suicide attack (theglobeandmail.com) Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor, official says (msnbc.msn.com)

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Comics at Daily Kos: "Actual Audio: John Boehner on the Debt Ceiling byscottbateman" Actual Audio: John Boehner from scottbateman on Vimeo.Related articlesThe Debt Ceiling and John Boehner's (Blatantly) Green Ties (esquire.com) House Speaker John Boehner Claims His Plan For A Short-Term Extension Is Bipartisan (politicore.wordpress.com) John Boehner lied. A bunch (dailykos.com) The Caucus Click

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Official Google Blog: "More wood behind fewer arrows7/20/2011 12:03:00 PMLast week we explained that we’re prioritizing our product efforts. As part of that process, we’ve decided to wind down Google Labs. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead."

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The new party of Reagan - The Washington Post: "“Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility,” Reagan says in the clip. “This brinkmanship threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veterans benefits. Interest rates would skyrocket, instability would occur in financial markets, and the federal deficit

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Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in America - How the World Works - Salon.com: "Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in AmericaWhenever economic disaster looms, you can count on the House majority leader to complain it is someone else's fault"...ero.

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Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in America - How the World Works - Salon.com: "Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in AmericaWhenever economic disaster looms, you can count on the House majority leader to complain it is someone else's fault"...ero.

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World War 4 Report | Deconstructing the War on Terrorism: "Iraq drafts harsh anti-protest law as Baghdad gets Tahrir Square movementRights groups protested a draft law in Iraq to ban demonstrations seen to violate the 'public interest.' The law comes as opposition groups have launched a campaign of Friday protests in Baghdad's Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Prime Minister Maliki."...ero.

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Daily Kos: Santorum's Marriage Pledge: "TUE JUL 12, 2011 AT 06:50 AM PDTSantorum's Marriage PledgebyscottbatemanforComics"

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Image via CrunchBaseRe: What is democracy? | Stephen Carter | Big Think: "Democracy precedes voting, Carter says" Question: What is democracy? Stephen Carter:  Democracy can mean a lot of different things; but at minimum to be a democracy, we have to have a system that involves ultimately

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Image via WikipediaYouTube - ‪What We're Fighting For‬‏: "Uploaded by BarackObamadotcom on Jun 30, 2011 At a press conference this week, President Obama spoke about what's at stake in this campaign — creating jobs, rebuilding the economy, educating the next generation."Related articles14 Obama Seconds Americans Will Not Forget (annem040359.wordpress.com) MessNBC Suspends Mark Halperin for

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Drew Westen: The Three Wings of the Republican Party: "Today's Republican Party has three wings: the psychiatric wing, the corporate wing, and the Democrats."

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YouTube - Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber?: "Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber?" Related articlesWill you help Bernie Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber? (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com) Senator Sanders breaks down the Koch Echo Chamber (ynative77.wordpress.com) Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber? (

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Image via WikipediaRoman Emperors - DIR Didius Julianus The authority of Didius Julianus even within Rome was rapidly deteriorating. Severus was able to send messages to the praetorians, who soon announced to a consul that they were complying with Severus' orders. The senate then met to proclaim Severus emperor and a death sentence on Didius Julianus. That day, 1 June 193, Didius Julianus was

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Stand By Me - The Four Quarters

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Image via WikipediaIgnoring Trump's Record of Racism: "But few corporate journalists have so far put Trump's anti-Obama efforts in the context of earlier racist episodes in the real estate developer's career--a history that sheds light on the potential presidential candidate's recent hamfisted claim: 'I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the

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Image via Wikipedia Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" Related articlesWill Oprah Make "The New Jim Crow" Her Book of the Month? (cjfanetwork.org) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration of African American Men (lezrec29.wordpress.com) Marian Wright Edelman: The New Jim Crow: Social Control, Social Death (huffingtonpost.com) More Black

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Image via WikipediaYouTube - Dennis Kucinich Questions WI Gov Scott Walker: "Dennis Kucinich Questions WI Gov Scott Walker" Related articlesScott Walker Is Busted By Dennis Kucinich! (tinfoilhatman45.wordpress.com) Dennis Kucinich takes on Gov. Scott Walker on Union Busting (via Dandelion Salad) (richardemanuel.wordpress.com) Dennis Kucinich takes on Gov. Scott Walker on Union Busting (

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Image via Wikipedia Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Image via Wikipedia The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys: "No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931. Over the course of the next two decades, the struggle

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Assange vs. Zuckerman (PIC) i.imgur.com Related articlesWhy doesn't imgur work for me? (ask.metafilter.com) Leaked: Julian Assange on the Dance Floor? (blogs.forbes.com)

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Image by Getty Images via @daylifeBreaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post Wisconsin Anti-Union Law Temporarily Blocked By JudgeSCOTT BAUER AND JASON SMATHERS  3/18/11 9:23:01 PM "We fully expect an appeals court will find that the Legislature followed the law perfectly and likely find that today's ruling was a significant overreach," Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald

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Snubbed Hero – Hugh C. Thompson, U.S. Army (1943-2006) | Hawaii Reporter Thompson would recall in a 1998 Associated Press interview seeing bodies piled in a ditch and watching American soldiers approaching Vietnamese women, children and old men.“These people were looking at me for help and there was no way I could turn my back on them,” Thompson said.He placed his chopper down in front of the

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: Will it make health care more effective? - CSMonitor.com: "Simply put, comparative effectiveness research takes a particular health problem, then pits different ways of treating that problem against one another, in an attempt to find which, if any, is a more effective way to maintain or restore patient health." Related articlesComparative

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Image by cobalt123 via FlickrHealth care reform bill 101: rules for preexisting conditions - CSMonitor.com: "The rollout starts with children. Six months from the day the bill was signed (let’s see ... that’ll be Sept. 23, by our calculation), insurers will no longer be able to exclude children with preexisting conditions from being covered by their family policy. For current policies, that

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: What does it mean for seniors? - CSMonitor.com: " . . . some seniors may lose Medicare benefits they now enjoy. Many others will gain from an enhancement of Medicare’s prescription-drug program."Related articlesMysa.com: Enhanced Medicare provisions available for seniors (mysanantonio.com)

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: What does it mean for kids and families? - CSMonitor.com: "Kids with health problems. Healthcare reform legislation prohibits insurers from excluding from coverage children with pre-existing health conditions. This provision takes effect immediately upon the bill becoming law. The bill would also prohibit insurers from excluding adults with

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: What will it mean for business? - CSMonitor.com: "If you are a firm with more than 50 employees, and do not offer health insurance as a benefit, and at least one of your full-time employees gets a subsidy from the federal government to purchase health insurance on his or her own, you would have to pay Washington a fee of $2,000 for every one of

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Image by Paul Schreiber via FlickrHealth care reform bill 101: Who will pay for reform? - CSMonitor.com: " . . . money will be provided by new taxes, fees on industries involved in health care, and cuts in projected spending growth for existing government health efforts, primarily Medicare." Related articlesMDs seek stimulus plan for health care (theglobeandmail.com)

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Cover via Amazon The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Crisis in Dairyland - For Richer and Poorer - Teachers and Wall Street www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook When will America's teachers follow the lead of Wall Street and start making some sacrifices for the children? Related articlesTDS: Teachers vs

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Image via WikipediaYouTube - YOU INSPIRE US - Erpenbach to the People #8 Uploaded by katysai on Mar 4, 2011This is Senator Jon Erpenbach's tribute to the working families of Wisconsin. All of you who keep Wisconsin going and make it great... you know who you are. As the Senator says, "Slobs?! I don't think so..." Thanks to Madison musician Jim Ripp for music and preschool teacher Scott

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: How long will reform take? - CSMonitor.com: "Most people who live in the United States will be required to obtain health insurance. But this does not kick in until 2014, when fines begin for those who don’t have coverage. Similarly, the subsidies intended to make policy purchase affordable – the subject of part two of this series – don’t start

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: What's a health 'exchange'? - CSMonitor.com: "The exchanges themselves would inspect offered policies to make sure they meet government standards. They’re supposed to make sure the plans are “in the interest” of buyers, according to the healthcare reform bill. They are prohibited from setting premiums. They can, however, ask insurers to justify

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: Who gets subsidized insurance? - CSMonitor.com: "The formula is pretty complicated. Basically, though, people who make three or four times the poverty level would get enough federal money so that they would not have to pay more than about 10 percent of their income for a decent health insurance package. People who make less would have to pay a

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Image via Wikipedia Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity Ratings Drop: Right-Wing Talk Is Dying - The Daily Beast: "“There are a lot of program directors whose radio ‘spider-sense’ is tingling,” says Randall Bloomquist, a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media. “They're thinking ‘this conservative thing is kind of running its course. We're saying the same things from morning 'til

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Image via WikipediaHealth care reform bill 101: Who must buy insurance? - CSMonitor.com: "An insurance-less person would have to pony up whichever is greater: $695 for each uninsured family member, up to a maximum of $2,085; or 2.5 percent of household income. There are exceptions. Certain people with religious objections would not have to get health insurance. Nor would American Indians,

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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG: "We are your friends and neighbors, and yes, taxpayers. We pay federal, state, local, property and sales taxes like all of our fellow citizens. Our salaries are spent in our local communities, supporting local businesses.The passage of Senate Bill 5 will not lower your taxes, but it could have a negative impact on our communities. The loss of local jobs and wages, whether in the

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Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions - NYTimes.com: "Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of nearly two to one: 60 percent to 33 percent. While a slim majority of Republicans favored taking away some bargaining rights, they were outnumbered by large majorities of Democrats and independents who said they opposed weakening them.

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Image via WikipediaSnyder's first Mich. budget calls for 'shared sacrifice' | detnews.com | The Detroit News:  "Paul Egan / Detroit News Lansing Bureau Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled a budget Thursday that fundamentally changes how the state raises and spends money. It also offers a $1.8 billion tax cut to businesses while taxing pensioners and restraining the spiraling costs of public

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Image via WikipediaGovernor gives Wisconsin Democrats an ultimatum | Reuters: "What began as one small state trying to rewrite the rules of labor relations has blown up into what could be the biggest confrontation with American labor unions since then President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. For the second time since the controversy erupted, President Barack

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Wisconsin Legislature Erupts on Touchy Racial Topics | Political News and Opinion for African-Americans on Politic365: "On top of the Walker controversy is the ugly head of race as state Senate Republicans passed a bill earlier in the week repealing a 2009 law which required state troopers and other law enforcement personnel in the state to track racial profiling of drivers. The law went into

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Image via WikipediaUpwards of 125,000 March in Madison, as Activists Rally Nationwide to Back Wisconsin Workers | The Nation: "upwards of 125,000 Wisconsinites rallied at the state capitol in Madison, as tens of thousands more rallied in communities across the state that American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union President Gerald McEntee calls “ground-zero in the fight

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Obama Endorses Senate Bill to Let States Opt Out Of Health Care Law Three Years Earlier - Political Punch: "Under the “Empowering States to Innovate Act,” supported by the president today and first introduced in November by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), state innovation waivers would be available three years earlier than under the current law -

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Image via WikipediaGa. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages | Mother Jones: "Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin—who last year proposed making rape and domestic violence 'victims' into 'accusers'—has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal." Related articlesDeath Penalty for Miscarriages? (politicalwire.com)

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Huckabee Distorts His Record On Tax Increases | Media Matters for America: "AP: Huckabee Signed Bill Imposing Surcharge In 2003 'Without A Peep.' In a January 2005 article reporting on the impending repeal of the income tax surcharge, The Associated Press reported: 'Huckabee says now that he didn't like it and didn't support it, though he signed it in 2003 without a peep.'"

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Wis. governor says protests haven't swayed him: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the two weeks of protests in the state capital haven't swayed his resolve to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees."

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