Social Issues
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Experts: Blame 9/11 and reinforced cockpit doors for Germanwings disaster (Video)
The latest chapter in the tragic saga of the Germangwings airliner that went down in the French Alps has been written. The…
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Marie Harf takes to the airwaves to accuse critics of her ‘jobs for jihadists’ comment of sexism (Video)
There’s an old adage, often ascribed to Abraham Lincoln, that holds it’s “better to remain silent and be thought a…
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Video: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s very bad parking misadventure
Parking a car is not one of the qualifications for a job in the U.S. Congress. For that, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton…
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Democratic lawmaker: Many women are ‘totally thrilled’ to have had an abortion (Video)
Yesterday, Democrats in the New York State Assembly argued for and helped pass a controversial abortion bill – AB 6221.…
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Did New Yorker’s John Cassidy just call Ted Cruz ‘uppity’?
Yes, but you’d never know it by linking to Cassidy’s article today because the adjective, which appeared in the second paragraph,…
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College feminists protest ‘sexist’ billboard advertising home improvement company (Video)
Demonstrating a firm grasp on the important things in life, a group of college feminists took to the streets —…
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LA teacher sued after allegedly telling class Michael Brown ‘got what he deserved’
A teacher at a Los Angeles charter school has been removed from the classroom and hit with a lawsuit from…
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Obamacare turns 5: Still polarizing after all these years
Five years after it was first introduced, Obamacare remains a highly partisan issue. President Obama used the five-year anniversary of…
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Long-awaited answer on whether toilet paper should be hung ‘over’ or ‘under’
It’s a debate that has divided households for centuries. It is so great a bone of contention that it has…
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Rapper Azealia Banks: ‘I hate the U.S., white Americans, and conservatives (but love the money I make)’
Here’s hoping she’s not a fan of Starbucks coffee! In an interview published Monday in Playboy, rapper Azealia Banks declared her hatred…
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Michelle O’s mom wary of daughter marrying biracial man — but ‘not as much as if he had been white’ (Video)
Watch out for stereotypes, but if this statement were made by a white mother with the same reservations but in…
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Is viral footage of brutal playground beating racist or just-plain ugly? (Video)
Capturing beat-downs on video appears to be on the cusp of becoming America’s new national pastime. There is an ugly barbaric aspect to…
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On ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ show, Obama demonstrates his skill at mob manipulation (Video)
On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” in typical fashion, President Obama played it both ways regarding the social unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Commenting…
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Black protesters target home, family of one of SAE students who led racist chant
Some might call it harassment. Protesters aligned with a Dallas-based group called Next Generation Action Network probably see it as payback. The…
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NAACP president calls developments in Ferguson a ‘validation’ (Video)
To seek to establish a causal relationship between the shooting of two police officer in Ferguson, Mo., early this morning and…
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Teacher who suffers from fear of children files claim under Americans With Disabilities Act
A person with pedophobia, a fear of young children, suing the school that employed her is akin to a child who murders his…
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BOMBSHELL: Is Obama descended from slave owners?
Yesterday, President Obama gave a speech in Selma, Ala., to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Obama being Obama, he…
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Gym cancels woman’s membership after she complains about ‘man’ in women’s locker room (Video)
Membership has its privilege. Membership in a protected class, that is. Michigander Yvette Cormier learned this the hard way when she…
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Three gay men marry in Thailand, becoming the world’s first ‘triple’
Three may be a crowd, but a trio of homosexuals in Thailand are out to disprove that adage. Two of the…
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Killer of 88-year-old World War II veteran changes plea to guilty, could face 16 years
Remember Delbert “Shorty” Belton? He was the World War II veteran who was beaten to death in a Spokane parking lot in…
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Man who made a killing publishing stolen nude pix of woman goes after news sites that posted his picture
How do you spell chutzpah? If you don’t have an answer, the story of Craig Brittain, shown at the left (much…
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Picture of the Day: Official Clinton portrait contains discreet reference to Lewinsky
Secret clues embedded in paintings is the stuff of which fiction is made. Think “DaVinci Code.” But it turns out…
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Innocent man banned from being near fellow student — for resembling her rapist
Be a rapist -- or, just look like one.
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U. of Minnesota agrees to start concealing the race of criminal suspects in campus alerts
Last January, it was reported in this space that the Black Student Union at the University of Minnesota (yes, there is a separate…
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LGBT acronym not inclusive enough for Wesleyan University, which insists on LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM
…expialidocious! This is no joke, notes Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix, by which she obviously means it is not intended to…
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Note to New York State Senator Velmanette Montgomery: White people eat with their mouths also
High school biology must have been vastly different in the 1950s. Either that or New York State Senator Velmanette Montgomery,…
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U.N. Climate Change panel chairman accused of sexually harassing female subordinate
The head of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being investigated by Indian police for allegedly sexually harassing a subordinate.…
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