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• Christian Coalition Promises Civil Disobedience if Laws Passed it Doesn’t Like

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  More than 150 leaders across a spectrum of conservative Christianity on Friday released a 4,700-word document vowing civil disobedience if they are forced to take part in "anti-life acts" or bless gay marriages. Called the "Manhattan Declaration," the six-page, single-spaced document was drafted by Prison ...
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• Jesse Jackson’s Plantaton Mindset

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 141
  Martin Luther King : “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Jesse Jackson, via Project 21 : “You can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man.” ...
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• Hospitals: New MLK Hospital Going Ahead, More Neighborhood Projects Planned

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 635
  The UC regents voted yesterday to help LA County reopen and operate a new Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital at the hospitals old site in Willowbrook--the building shut down two years ago and since then, the area has a major lack of medical services. The decision triggers a capital program to build new facilities ...
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• Christian Leaders Unite on Political Issues (abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way ...
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• Bernice King Just Started at SCLC. And Already Oversaw Its Latest Round of Homophobia

  
  Queerty — Authority: 733
  Well that was a let down. After taking the reigns of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bernice King — whose father Martin founded the organization — had the chance to turn a new leaf on the organizations, and her own, homophobia. In the most clear signal yet, shes not going to. CONTINUED » ...
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• Is Tweeting Now a Felony Under Federal Law?

  
  Steve Brown Etc. — Authority: 487
  Say you want a revolution. We better get on right away. Well you get on your feet And out on the street. –John Lennon, "Power to the People" The ominous rise of the surveillance state continues unabated. With each passing day, hope fades that the Obama administration will diverge from George W. ...
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• Atlanta’s historic home tours: Martin Luther King Jr. home

  
  Inside Access — Authority: 138
  There are free, half-hour National Park Service-run tours of the Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home on Auburn Avenue every day. Nearby, the National Historic Site and King Center round out the tour experience. AJC file photo Yesterday’s historic home tour took us to Bulloch Hall in Roswell . Today, we’re ...
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• Downed pole knocks out downtown power

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 449
  City emergency crews restored power to downtown San Marcos Tuesday night after the central portion of the city was without electricity for about 45 minutes. City officials said a car struck an electric pole, pitching the city into darkness, shutting down businesses and causing hazards on the streets.
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• The Going Rogue Index

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 744
  Sarah Palin’s autobiography Going Rogue doesn’t have an index. Why? Well, I’m not exactly sure. But it sure makes finding gems in the text--such as the defense of that $150,000 clothing bill, the petty attacks on Katie Couric, and Palin-isms like “maverick” and “dang!”—a pretty tough slog. So, ...
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• Kennedys, King and Watergate, Oh My!

  
  Greenlee Gazette — Authority: 144
  Image from FreeWebs.com There have been countless theories, crazy and somewhat plausible, about exactly what was up in the sixties, with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bobby Kennedy. Was there some kind of connection? And much of the aftermath, the suspects, the ...
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• China kinder to Obama than Bush?

  
  Changing China — Authority: 468
  How does one measure how U.S. President Barack Obama was received by the Chinese government? I like to read the tea leaves and decided one measure might be to compare the reception Obama got in comparison with that given his predecessors. For me, one indication is the most senior Chinese official greeting an ...
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• BarCampDC 3 Recap

  
  Russell Heimlich — Authority: 116
  This past Saturday, November 14th, a hundred DC tech enthusiasts gathered at the Martin Luther King Library to create their own conference. Topics were suggested by participants and the group at large determined the schedule. It was a BarCamp at it’s best! This year’s BarCamp had a few twists. The ...
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• Nonviolence: 25 lessons from the history of a dangerous idea

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 413
  Mark Kurlansky’s magnum opus Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea has been on my reading list for two years now, but Barnes and Noble has continually thwarted me. In other news, I applied for my first real library card the other day.  Put those two things together, and I finally ...
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• Uncle Jay Explains: Nov. 16, 2009

  
  Uncle Jay Explains The News — Authority: 404
  It’s an Uncle Jay rerun, only the third one this year.  New episode next Monday!  This is from January 19, 2009, the final day before America was (destroyed)(saved) by Barack Obama.
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• The Racial Dimensions of H1N1 Swine Flu

  
  The Strange Death of Liberal America — Authority: 407
  A friend of mine, a doctor, just canceled a dinner tonight because he has swine flu, which for him is an occupational hazard. But what about for the rest of us? How vulnerable are we? Swine flu–or officially H1N1 (the Governor of pork-producing Iowa has urged people not to use the term swine flu)–has become the ...
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• Freedom Form No. 2 by Daniel Johnson

  
  Start Seeing Art — Authority: 107
  Created by Daniel Johnson in 1970, Freedom Form No. 2 is located in Martin Luther King Park in Minneapolis. The abstract sculpture is two perpendicular sheets of metal with curving cut outs where they would have intersected.
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• The History of Valentine’s Day

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 490
  Like many holidays we celebrate, we don’t really know how Valentine’s Day began. We know it’s a day to celebrate love, and we know that the consumer market loves its overpriced candy and flowers, but what was the original purpose of V-Day, and where did it begin? I was interested, so I took some time to find ...
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• Ann Donald on the Home and The Help

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 544
  Kalk Bay Books ‘ Ann Donald sees value for all South Africans in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help - winner of the Boeke Prize - a story of black and white domestic relationships: From the first page, the world around me ceased to exist - until after the sun had gone down 12 hours later. My first thought after ...
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• Council Call-in audio – 11/11/2009

  
  The AroundFortWayne Blog — Authority: 447
  Last night’s Council Call-in show featured Councilman Mitch Harper and his guest, Geoff Paddock, Executive Director of the Headwaters Park Alliance.
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• Lane changes on MLK Bridge were not needed

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 143
  I think that our “Nanny Government” over  here in Illinois spent way too much money for shoddy work on a project that was highly unnecessary.  I drive that bridge regularly and realize it is narrow, however the dozen or so…
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