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Law and Government
Dem Councilwoman: Ferguson shows government going to ‘round up and execute’ blacks
A city councilwoman in upstate New York is coming under fire after posting her approval of a wild racial conspiracy…
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Unyielding
Journalists demand apology from Fox for ‘irresponsible comments about Islam’ (Video)
A group of journalists is demanding that Fox News apologize for a remark one of its hosts made last week…
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Religion
HS school student suspended for saying ‘Bless you’ to a student who sneezed
OK, we get it. The rules at Dyer County (Tenn.) High School prohibit talking in class. Apparently, the rules do not…
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Politics
Tweet of the Day: Cher calls Sea World ‘Dachau for whales’
For those who missed the story, Sea World theme parks are under siege by animal-rights activists who maintain that training killer whales for…
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Politics
Why won’t the Empire State Building light up for children’s cancer when it will for the DNC?
Embroiled in a controversy over their refusal to ‘Go Gold‘ for one night to raise awareness of children’s cancer, the Empire…
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Foreign Affairs
ISIS ‘too brutal’ for al Qaeda’s tastes: Letter found in bin Laden hideout
You know that a group is brutal when the terrorists behind 9/11 disassociate themselves from that outfit because of their…
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Sports and Culture
Lawsuit asks the question: Can a monkey own a selfie?
In a lawsuit that could never have happened before the age of social media, a professional photographer who handed his…
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Media
Dem operative tweets racist remarks about senator’s wife, closes Twitter account
A Democratic operative claiming to be an activist for equality and women’s rights made racist remarks on her Twitter account…
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Media
Facebook says page calling for death to Jews OK, then removes page
This last couple of weeks have seen an unprecedented escalation of anti-Semitism and open support for the terrorist group Hamas,…
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Media
Tweet of the Day: Postcards from over the edge (viz., Nutroots Nation)
Weasel Zippers has two tasty tidbits from the Netroots Nations conference, current and future. First up is that the group’s…
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Law and Government
Tweet of the Day: Is there a More Supreme Court that Obama plans to appeal to?
One appreciates that the president has his own Constitution, which is different from the one the rest of America is…
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Law and Government
14-year-old sues male peer who posted her nude selfie online
The nude selfie strikes again. This time the subject was a female of the species, barely into adolescence. A 13-year-old…
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Education
Obama claims ‘world is less violent than it has ever been’
Greetings from the Bizarro World. Barack Obama, the social media president, took questions from Tumblr users at the White House yesterday,…
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Politics
Counter-terror expert alleges Muslim group working with social media sites to remove users critical of Islam
On Wednesday, Dave Gaubatz, a former Air Force investigator who has served many years in the field of counter-terrorism, and…
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Law and Government
Wannabe gangstas just ‘tryin’ to eat’ when killed during break-in
After breaking into an elderly widow’s house twice in a row, two teenagers were killed by an armed occupant, in…
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Social Issues
Gays attack Nintendo for virtual reality game that excludes same-sex couples
Japanese videogame maker Nintendo, whose name translates roughly to “Leave luck to heaven,” is under attack here on earth for…
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Media
A New York restaurant that spies on its customers
Imagine entering a restaurant, giving your name to the person at the reservations podium, and being asked, “So has your…
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Unyielding
5 reasons why Republicans should say no to Jeb Bush in 2016
With Chris Christie in deep trouble, Republican poobahs are reportedly looking to Jeb Bush to save their party in 2016.…
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Unyielding
Teen suspended for allegedly making gang sign is latest victim of zero tolerance
toaster pastry — verb: suspend a student for violating a school zero tolerance policy based on the flimsiest of evidence. (If you…
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Social Issues
TN man arrested for ‘liking’ woman on FB (Update)
Thaddeus likes Towanna. But Towanna doesn’t like Thaddeus. She so doesn’t like him that when he virtually “liked” her on…
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Education
NJ bill mandates that middle schoolers be taught social media skills
In case you thought the only news coming out of the Garden State revolved around Chris Christie’s lousy bridge hand,…
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Media
Obscene hate-filled tweets follow word of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's death
It’s used to be 21-gun salutes that marked the passing of our nation’s heroes, not 4-letter obscenities. But that was…
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