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• Stopping the Stupid - Er, I Mean Stupak - Amendment

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  Sometimes you dont need to be psychic to see the future. Back in July, I wrote about why I couldnt support health care reform unless it included the full spectrum of reproductive rights, including abortion . A few months after that, a representative from Michigan forced through an amendment that would effectively ...
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• FCC Plays Hide and Seek

  
  An Ol' Broad's Ramblings — Authority: 531
  Mark Lloyd , whose grand title is  “Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer”, has come up with this brilliant idea of providing broadband internet access to every single American.  Sounds nice, eh?  Well, I’m a bit confused.  There are companies that already provide access to the internet.  ...
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• AR-15, Made in Texas

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Montana Firearm Freedom Act was signed into law in October of this year. Here is a recent update: http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=11610180. So how does this apply to Texas right now and in the near future?One of the strategic goals of the 10th amendment movement is the passage of a firearms ...
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• Is the Womens Health Amendment Worthwhile?

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 638
  Despite my dismay about the kerfluffle over delaying routine mammograms for women in their 40s, I was feeling OK about the womens health amendment to the health care legislation, which the Senate passed Thursday. Hey, its Sen. Barbara Mikulskis idea, and the gals from Maine are for it. Plus as Mikulski pointed ...
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• Sen. McCain Medicare Amendment Fails

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 124
  The Senate voted 58 to 42 today to defeat an amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) that would have sent the bill back to the Senate Finance Committee to remove the more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts and find a new way to finance the measure.A number of senior-advocacy groups, including AARP, the [...]
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• Commissioner’s obligation to charge dishonesty if he intends to allege it

  
  The Australian Professional Liability Blog — Authority: 119
  Relatively recently, I posted on the question of whether a Bureau de Spank desiring to rely on a practitioner’s dishonesty or other form of conscious wrongdoing must expressly allege it in the charge, and discussed Walter v Council of Queensland Law Society Incorporated (1988) 77 ALR 228 at 234; [1988] HCA 8.  ...
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• Court “restricts” religious expression

  
  First Door on the Left — Authority: 132
  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has ruled that students in the Plano, Texas school district may only distribute Christian propaganda religious materials before and after school, at three annual parties, during recess and at designated tables during school hours. Middle and high schoolers can ...
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• Media Matters aka Big Brother editor, Orwellian Lies, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Citizen Wells challenges Eric Boehlert, Orwellian birther spin, Simple question, Why has Obama employed private and government attorneys to avoid eligibility

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 567
  “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed –if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”… George Orwell, “1984″   ...
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• Mikulski Amendment: Victory for Women’s Health in the Senate

  
  Feminists For Choice — Authority: 536
  Today, by an overwhelming majority vote of 61-39, the Senate passed the Mikulski Amendme nt to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Thanks to the hard work of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), health care plans will be required to cover comprehensive women’s preventative care, related screenings, and even ...
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• Student suspended for ‘threatening’ rap lyrics

  
  DetentionSlip.org — Authority: 501
  Story: BLHS student suspended for ‘threatening’ rap lyrics This is a prime example of whats wrong with Zero Tolerance. I am guessing this boy isnt the only teenager in the country to try and write a rap song...fairly confident about that. But since his lyrics indirectly contained references to guns and ...
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  Food GPS — Authority: 434
  The L.A. BEER BLAST is designed to let Food GPS readers know about what’s new at select L.A. bars and restaurants with great beer selections. You’ll also discover beer-related events in the area and learn about industry leaders. Expect a new L.A. BEER BLAST every Thursday evening, in time for the weekend rush. ...
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• Senate Passes Women’s Health Amendment

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 674
  By GottaLaff I am late to this due to my schedule today, but if you missed it: Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women. The vote was ...
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• NRA and its members are "terrorists"

  
  Books, Bones, Bricks, and Bullets — Authority: 127
  So, I guess Im a terrorist.... Oh, wait! Havent I been for a long time now ? Spencer
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• One Voice For Choice: Don’t Let Stupak and Nelson Hold Health Care Reform Hostage

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 748
  Yesterday, Venice For Change and FDL Action PAC announced “One Voice For Choice” , a unique phone bank effort that will call into the districts of Democratic lawmakers who voted for the Stupak amendment. We are targeting likely voters who are pro-choice and asking them to tell their member of Congress to vote ...
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• Sen. Ben Nelson Will Filibuster Any Health Care Plan That Is Not Hostile to Womens Rights

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 578
  Remember back when all the Republicans were screaming at the top of their lungs trying to warn us of the dangers of a Democratic super majority? That sure turned out to be a waste of breath … Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Thursday that the need for stronger anti-abortion language in the Senate health care bill ...
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• McConnell Statement on McCain Amendment

  
  Purple People Vote — Authority: 413
  A Statement from Senator McConnell’s Office on the McCain Amendment… A Vote Against Medicare Democrats vote ‘to use Medicare as a piggy-bank to fund their new government programs’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Thursday regarding Senate ...
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• Obamas America -- Criminalizing Dissent (Daily KOS and HotAir on Same Page)

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  The Minority Report has a great article title: Feinstein and Durbin Want to Kill Citizen Journalism. Blogs of Victory has great insight on this "liberal" hypocrisy in their post No Shield for YOU!!  Of course the Daily KOS is attacking these two liberal Democrats, something that you normally do not see.  When a ...
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• San Francisco Rallies Against the Stupak Pitts Amendment to the Health Care Reform Bill

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  A crowd of a hundred-something showed up on the steps of City Hall yesterday to protest against the Stupak Pitts proposal (aka the Stupak–Ellsworth–Pitts–Kaptur–Dahlkemper–Lipinski–Smith Amendment , srsly) regarding health plans covering abortions. Moms and daughters were there… …plus San ...
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• Man busted for hunting while high

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 531
  ( LoHud.com ) MAHOPAC — A Mahopac man faces charges after a town officer determined that he was hunting while high on marijuana, Carmel Chief Michael Johnson said today. Michael Cassidy, 47, was arrested around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday after Officer Thomas Johanson saw him carrying a long gun while walking on New York ...
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• Senate passes Womens Health Amendment

  
  POLITICAL TRUTH-THE BLOG THAT ROCKS — Authority: 134
  The Senate has approved an amendment to the health care legislation that will require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women. The vote was 61 to 39 with three Republicans and two Independents voting in favor of the amendment. Republican Senators voting in favor of the bill ...
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