This Kid Just Died. What He Left Behind Is Wondtacular.

upworthy.com 20 May

If you know you are gonna die before you turn 19, you might as well do this. RIP, Zach.

 
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‘I Have Not Done Anything Wrong’: IRS Official Invokes 5th Amendment Right

theblaze.com 2 hours ago

The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the political targeting scandal invoked her constitutional right not to answer lawmakers' questions on Wednesday, but defiantly asserted that she...

 
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Why Were DHS Agents Seemingly Monitoring Multiple Tea Party IRS Protests Across the Country on...

theblaze.com 13 hours ago

There were multiple reported sightings of agents with the Department of Homeland Security at several Tea Party-led IRS protests in states like Missouri, Florida, Illinois and Indiana...

 
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Democrats Turn on IRS; Compare IRS Scandal to Totalitarian Regimes

breitbart.com 3 hours ago

As the House Oversight Committee commenced its hearing on the IRS Scandal Wednesday, it was clear that Democrats, visibly angered by the decision of IRS Exempt Organizations director Lois Lerner to...

 
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Canada lifts lifetime ban on gay men giving blood

thestar.com 3 hours ago

Canada is lifting the lifetime ban on blood donation by gay men, though serious restrictions will remain in place.

 
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FBI Shoots Florida Man Possibly Linked to Boston Bombing Suspects: Official

abcnews.go.com 4 hours ago

An Orlando man being questioned by the FBI about his relationship with the accused Boston bombers was shot and killed Tuesday night by a federal agent who felt threatened, a law enforcement official...

 
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U.S. Attorney Investigating Fox News Donated to Obama

breitbart.com 14 hours ago

Over the years, he has donated $4,350 to Obama's campaigns. He gave $250 to Obama's U.S...

 
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Wait, Did the Inspector General Who Audited the IRS ‘Date’ Michelle Obama?

theblaze.com 1 hour ago

J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, is known today as the man who helped unearth the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups...

 
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Weekly Standard: IRS's Lois Lerner Has History of Harassing Religious Groups

breitbart.com 3 hours ago

Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division and a central figure in the recent IRS scandal, has been accused of a number of untruths since she admitted the agency has targeted...

 
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Fighting Facebook, A Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service

thenation.com 3 hours ago

Ari Melber , Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Social media companies say consumer privacy is just the cost of doing business...

 
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Daily Kos: How Citizens United is saving progressive politics

dailykos.com 1 hour ago

Two data points. First up, EMILY's List : EMILY's List raised $7.3 million in the first four months of 2013, a record for that ...

 
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POLL: Americans In The Deep South Strongly Support Medicaid Expansion, Despite Governors’ Opposition

thinkprogress.org 4 hours ago

Over 60 percent of the Americans living in the Deep South support Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, according to the results from a new poll that surveyed a broad sample of people in Alabama, Georgia,...

 
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How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling

fastcoexist.com 4 hours ago

Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how...

 
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Teacher Admits She ‘Prayed Out Loud’ During Violent Tornado: ‘I Did the Teacher Thing that We’re...

theblaze.com 3 hours ago

On Tuesday, we told you about Rhonda Crosswhite, a brave, sixth-grade teacher at Plaza Tower Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma...

 
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Report: More Benghazi Whistleblowers to Reveal ‘Devastating’ Details on Terror Attack, Including WHY...

theblaze.com 20 hours ago

New Benghazi whistleblowers are prepared to reveal shocking details about the Sept. 11 terror attack, including why U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Libya to begin with, two former U.S...

 
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Farrakhan Talks of ‘Satanic Jews’ and ‘Synagogue of Satan’ at Detroit Church Speech — but Wait Until...

theblaze.com 5 hours ago

The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing Louis Farrakhan for delivering blatantly anti-Semitic statements, using terms such as “Satanic Jews” and the “Synagogue of Satan,” during a speech at a...

 
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Rob Ford: U.S. late-night hosts take aim at Toronto mayor | Toronto Star

thestar.com 5 hours ago

Jimmy Kimmel enlisted Jim O'Heir of Parks and Recreation in order to "interview" Ford on Tuesday's show.

 
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Ex-Cincinnati IRS Manager: This Was Not the Work of ‘Low-Level’ Employees

theblaze.com 3 hours ago

Bonnie Esrig, a former manager at the Internal Revenue Service Cincinnati office responsible for the targeting of conservative groups, told NBC News she believes the scandal goes well beyond...

 
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House GOP Creates IRS Whistleblower Site

breitbart.com 1 hour ago

The House Ways and Means Committee, which convened the first hearing investigating the growing IRS scandal, is asking the public to share their stories of IRS abuse...

 
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Dishes of olive oil to be banned from restaurants? The EU's gone mad

guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago

It is independent producers who have the most to lose from this latest bizarre EU directive, so let's hope it is never enforced, writes James Ramsden

 
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As Drug-Resistant Superbugs Continue To Spread, U.S. Taps Pharma Giant To Develop New Antibiotics

thinkprogress.org 1 hour ago

The U.S. government has tapped pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to create new antibiotics meant to fight the rise of drug-resistant bacteria and safeguard against bioterrorism...

 
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Angelina's choice, and mine

nydailynews.com 1 hour ago

Palmer: I wish Angelina Jolie had never brought this up. Because now I have to actually think about the exact thing I’ve been attempting to ignore for years...

 
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In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters

washingtonpost.com 16 hours ago

The White House investigates reporters for doing their job.

 
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Appeals Court Overturns Arizona Law Banning Abortions After 20 Weeks

breitbart.com 1 hour ago

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Arizona’s law that bans abortions after 20 weeks violates other abortion rulings, including Roe v. Wade...

 
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The Cicada Invasion of New York City Has Begun

nymag.com 3 hours ago

Here are some gross photos and videos from Staten Island. 

 
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Bernanke: Too Soon to End Fed Stimulus

cnbc.com 3 hours ago

Markets were expecting Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to strike a dovish tone in Congress, and he did not disappoint.

 
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Everyone Secretly Hates "Snow Fall"

theawl.com 2 hours ago

Cody Brown, of Scrollkit, made a replica of the ballyhooed New York Times "Snow Fall" story—in about an hour. Naturally, the Times made a copyright compla

 
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Issa Lets Lerner Get Away

breitbart.com 2 hours ago

IRS Exempt Organizations director Lois Lerner arguable waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when she read a prepared written statement under oath before the House Committee on...

 
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Freakonomics » Don’t You Wish You Thought of This? Econ Professor Focuses on Beer

freakonomics.com 1 hour ago

From the (Saskatoon) Star-Phoenix : When Jason Childs and his colleagues went about devising a new course in economics at the University of Regina, they wanted to find a focus that didn't...

 
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Steve Jobs’ Dream Device Has Arrived, and It's Made by Microsoft

slate.com 18 hours ago

Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television...

 
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Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds

fastcodesign.com 3 hours ago

Don Draper drinks an Old Fashioned because he’s a man. Rocky Balboa drank his protein shakes--five raw eggs--for strength...

 
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The unsustainable wealth of the £1m household

guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago

Danny Dorling: A tenth of UK households now own at least £1m in assets. But the bubble will burst – and we'll emerge a more equal society

 
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