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Social Issues
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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Education
HS students harass special needs student, share video on social media (Video)
Remember the cretinous middle schoolers who in 2012 released a video of themselves taunting and at times threatening a 68-year-old…
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National Security
Should Twitter banish Islamic State supporters or track them? A new study investigates
A new study of online support for Islamic State terrorists contains surprising implications for stopping recruitment, as well as for…
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Email Featured
Facebook suspends 12-year-old’s account after his rant against Obama goes viral (Video)
They can't handle the truth.
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Politics
Cuomo aide, Anthony Weiner engage in epic Twitter tug-of-war
Disgraced former New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and Rich Azzopardi, spokesman for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo engaged…
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Economy
Michael Moore blames Brian Williams scandal on (envelope, please) George W. Bush
Barack Obama hasn’t blamed George W. Bush in a while for the ills of the world, but that’s probably because…
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Law and Government
Rapper facing prison sentence of 25 years to life over violent lyrics (Video)
We have all heard about the illegality of shouting “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater, and learned last December that urging…
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Education
Oxford U. Press warns that writing about bacon could offend Muslims … and Jews
The world’s largest university press has told its authors to refrain from using the word pork, pig, or “anything else…
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Economy
Karma strikes Harvard faculty when they see premiums rise under Obamacare
Faculty members at Harvard are in an uproar over their escalating health insurance costs — all because of the Affordable…
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Law and Government
Baltimore Co. police sent warning to NYPD that cop killer was on way, but wait till you hear how it was sent
Apparently, the Baltimore County Police Department’s fleet of carrier pigeons was earmarked for other tasks, and the Pony Express went out of commission…
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Law and Government
After punching cop, NYC protester strolls into police HQ to claim personal property (Video)
And this year’s Anti-Police Protest Chutzpah Award goes to 22-year-old Yotemeli Sayer, who assaulted not one but two NYPD officers attempting to keep…
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Media
Missouri bar offers ‘Michael Brown special’: Six shots for $10 (Video)
Too soon? Kansas City Fox affiliate WDAF reports that a bar in St. Joseph, Mo., is “facing public scrutiny after offering a…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: ‘Racist’ message to #Ferguson protesters goes viral
How deep is the divide between those who come down on the side of Ferguson protesters and their endless antics and…
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Media
White Ferguson protesters at Michael Brown vigil sent to ‘back of bus’
Shades of America’s first black president in 2010 telling Republicans (aka white people) that “they can come for the ride,…
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Media
D. L. Hughley and fans get punked by Palin anti-immigrant spoof
I confess: The Onion and its spinoffs on the web can be fun to read. Even more fun, though, is…
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Economy
Tweet of the Day: Liberal defender of Hillary ‘jobs creation’ gaffe gets schooled
“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” When Barack Obama made this…
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Media
Suddenly a flood of photos of Wendy Davis with people in wheelchairs
Some of Wendy Davis’s best friends are people in wheelchairs. At least that appears to be the message the Texas gubernatorial…
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Unyielding
WH to use emoji-based social media campaign to reach out to Millennials in time for midterms
You may not know what emoji are by name, but if you’ve been to a hospital emergency room in the…
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Foreign Affairs
Tweet of the Day: Obama’s State Dept wages war on ISIS … via social media
There are still no boots on the ground in Syria or Iraq, and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (White House code…
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Media
Facebook OK with video of kitten set ablaze but not with photo of sick infant
Maybe Facebook should consider changing its name to Two-Facedbook. It seems unable to make up its mind about what constitutes…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: DiGiorno apologizes for accidentally joking about domestic violence
Domestic violence, which is in the news again after a video showing former NFL running back Ray Rice decking his wife went…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: Who is Amanda Marcotte and why are people tweeting these terrible things at her?
The title of this post is a play on the title of a short story by the late Herb Gardner…
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Foreign Affairs
Obama steps up war on terror: Moves from Twitter hashtags to YouTube (Video)
In a move only the Obama administration could call “bold,” it stepped up its use of social media to wage…
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Law and Government
Facebook removes American ISIS supporter photo for ‘graphic violence’
A Facebook user, “Mike,” posted a photo of a man evidently wearing the ISIS emblem in a deli in Houston,…
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Foreign Affairs
Will Obama give Ukraine military aid, or does he consider Russia a JV team too?
President Barack Obama’s passive approach to foreign policy has taken Syria and Iraq from a state of cautious stability to…
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