Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

motherjones.com 12 hours ago

The state's manslaughter laws weren't supposed to apply to women who lose pregnancies. Prosecutors don't seem to care.

 
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Obama Lays Out Plan To End The War Against Al Qaeda

thinkprogress.org 2 hours ago

President Obama delivered a wide ranging speech on Thursday, laying out his vision for countering terrorism in his second term, including announcements on the use of drones, the future closure of the...

 
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Report: Top IRS Official Who Plead the Fifth Placed on Administrative Leave — What Does It Mean?

theblaze.com 49 mins ago

Lois Lerner, a top IRS official at the center of the agency's targeting scandal, has been placed on administrative leave, a source in the IRS' Cincinnati official told National Review...

 
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Trey Gowdy at It Again — This Time with a Jack Bauer Reference!

theblaze.com 4 hours ago

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) became a viral sensation on Wednesday with his tough questioning of former IRS head Doug Shulman during a House hearing on the IRS targeting of conservatives...

 
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Daily Kos: Biggest GOP foodstamp foe gets huge farm subsidies

dailykos.com 45 mins ago

Welfare recipient Stephen Fincher. Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) has been making a big splash with his supposedly Jesus-...

 
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This 23-Ton, 5.3-Million Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever

wired.com 7 hours ago

This full-size X-Wing model is not only awesome, it's also the largest Lego model ever built.

 
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Loyal Obama Supporters React to Multiple White House Scandals: ‘That Sounds Fine With Me’

theblaze.com 2 hours ago

For his latest "Watters' World" segment, Jesse Watters walked the streets of New York City and asked President Barack Obama's loyal supporters about the several scandals currently haunting the White...

 
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Wait Until You See the Questions on Prayer Asked of Lt. Col. Oliver North When Lois Lerner Was at...

theblaze.com 9 hours ago

New questions are being raised today about Lois Lerner and the attitude she's taken in the past regarding conservative and Christian groups...

 
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Breaking: New Hampshire Senate Approves Medical Marijuana | Just Say Now

justsaynow.firedoglake.com 3 hours ago

It looks like medical marijuana may finally be coming to New Hampshire after several years of false starts and hard fought legislative battles...

 
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‘I Swear I Will Kill You…F**k You’: Conservative Comedian Gets Death Threats Following Anti-Muhammad...

theblaze.com 2 hours ago

Comedian Steven Crowder's "Jesus vs. Muhammad" video has already attracted more than 140,000 views...

 
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Congressman’s Misuse Of Bible Verse Belies Bad Theology And Ideology On Food Stamps

thinkprogress.org 8 hours ago

As the House Agriculture Committee convened earlier this week to discuss whether or not to cut as much as $4.1 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food...

 
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GOP Senator: Obama Speech ‘Will Be Viewed By Terrorists As A Victory’

thinkprogress.org 1 hour ago

Obama’s major speech outlining the Administration’s counter-terrorism policy on Thursday marked a win for al-Qaeda, according to Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)...

 
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Poll: Obama Approval Drops, 68% Think Government 'Out of Control'

breitbart.com 4 hours ago

A new Fox News poll shows Obama's disapproval rating among registered voters has spiked to 51%, up from 45% last month. The poll shows an 8-point swing against Obama since April...

 
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Power to the Parents: The Fight for Home-School Rights

theblaze.com 8 hours ago

Editor's note: For TheBlaze Magazine's June cover story, Assistant Editor Sharon Ambrose dug into the history and success of -- and Progressive attacks on -- home-schooling...

 
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The 20 Craziest Tweets From The Man Who Could Be Virginia’s Next Lt Governor

thinkprogress.org 5 hours ago

If you were to put the dregs of conservative Internet comment sections into a pot, boil them down to their essence, then run the resulting product through a sieve to get it to its rawest, most pure...

 
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The Congressional Budget Office Says We Need A Price On Carbon Emissions

thinkprogress.org 1 hour ago

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) thinks putting off efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions risks “catastrophic” losses for the United States’ economy and society. That’s according to a new...

 
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Patrick Roy is new Avalanche coach

blogs.denverpost.com 1 hour ago

This is confirmed to the Denver Post: Patrick Roy is the new coach. It’s a done deal. We’ll have more details as they emerge.

 
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Another enormous ObamaCare ‘Oops’

nypost.com 18 hours ago

Would you like to have a “skinny” health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you’re employed by a large company, you may get one, thanks to ObamaCare. That’s the conclusion...

 
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House Leadership Rejects Senate Amnesty Bill

breitbart.com 3 hours ago

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its work on the "Gang of 8" Amnesty Bill...

 
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Sen. Ted Cruz Refuses to Play the Game: ‘Let Me Be Clear, I Don’t Trust the Republicans’

theblaze.com 21 hours ago

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday made it crystal clear that he is not in Washington, D.C...

 
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"Star Trek Into Darkness": What Came Next

theawl.com 1 hour ago

“You were in a coma for two weeks. I had to make a serum from his super-blood.” —Dr. “Bones” McCoy to Captain James T. Kirk, after reversing Kirk

 
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Living In Two Worlds, But With Just One Language

npr.org 15 hours ago

Elysha O'Brien calls herself a "Mexican white girl." Not just because of her ethnically ambiguous appearance, she says, but also because she can't speak Spanish...

 
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Bernanke to Congress: You’re killing us Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital

marketwatch.com 6 hours ago

Not that they listened, but Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers in Congress that they are killing jobs and hurting the economy with their obsession with deficits, Darrell Delamaide reports.

 
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McDonald's creates highest calorie menu item ever

telegraph.co.uk 5 hours ago

McDonald's has created its highest calorie menu item ever - the Mega Potato.

 
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Can This Sleek Lighter Challenge The Zippo?

fastcodesign.com 1 hour ago

Design is a search to perfectly integrate form, function, and meaning. A single design can take years of iterations and refinements and still may never embody that ideal...

 
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Chicago's Students Deserve Acts of Heroism

huffingtonpost.com 3 hours ago

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to shutter 50 (yes, 50) schools won't be good for Chicago's children, especially children of color.

 
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26-Year-Old Woman Stabbed and With a Knife to Her Throat Fights Back…with a Gun

theblaze.com 10 hours ago

26-year-old Samantha Minehart was just trying to spend some time with her horse. But an attacker with a knife had another idea. Fortunately for Samantha, she did, too...

 
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Judith Butler’s honorary doctorate is a divisive move for McGill

fullcomment.nationalpost.com 6 hours ago

Let’s tally up. We have an honoree who represents the most controversial aspect of the most toxic and divisive issue roiling campuses all over the world...

 
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Want to See President Obama’s High School Prom Photos?

theblaze.com 1 hour ago

Well here’s something fun: TIME has acquired previously unpublished photos of a 17-year-old Barack Obama preparing for his senior prom: “Barry spent his days at the Punahou School in Hawaii...

 
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George Stroumboulopoulos’ CNN debut set for June 9

thestar.com 1 hour ago

Stroumboulopoulos, CBC veteran talk show host, will return to Canada after 10-week CNN stint in L.A.

 
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Michelle Malkin Rips Progressives, Clashes With Lib Radio Host Over Terrorism, London Machete...

theblaze.com 9 hours ago

Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin had some tough words for British progressives during an on-air debate last night with television host Sean Hannity and liberal radio personality Leslie...

 
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Nevada Assembly Approves Marriage Equality Amendment

thinkprogress.org 1 hour ago

Today the Nevada Assembly voted 27-14 to approve a constitutional amendment that would repeal the 2002 amendment banning same-sex marriage...

 
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NAPOLITANO: Tyranny just around the corner

washingtontimes.com 11 hours ago

A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America.

 
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Daily Kos: Nashville charter schools 'lose' problem students to public schools—just in time for...

dailykos.com 1 hour ago

If all you care about are test scores, one of the big advantages charter schools have over traditional public schools is that they don't have to take every kid who shows up...

 
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Are Apostrophes Necessary? No, Not Really.

slate.com 6 hours ago

One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten spring...

 
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