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• Tasers again: this time, a study

  
  Staring At Empty Pages — Authority: 129
  New Scientist reports on a study that shows that “[u]sing a Taser to subdue a violent suspect is safer than police batons and fists.” The team examined over 24,000 cases where police had used force, including almost 5500 incidents involving a Taser. After controlling for factors such as the amount of resistance ...
  5 days ago

• Hardball Fact Checks Rep. Foxx

  
  Past in Print Weblog — Authority: 115
  I heard about this from a tweet and then went to check it out.  Like Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), whose rebuke of Foxx immediately followed the latter’s remarks from the House floor, ‘I couldn’t believe my ears.’ Check out my post regarding Foxx’s revisionism – Virginia Foxx and the GOP civil rights ...
  1 week ago

• Chicago’s Historic Burr Oak Cemetery Reopens After Grave-Selling Scheme

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Alsip, IL (AHN) - Burr Oak Cemetery opened on a limited basis on Thursday, allowing family members distraught since July, when grave workers were arrested for allegedly reselling plots and dismembering human bodies, to visit their loved ones for the first time. Only 11 sections of the ...
  1 week ago

• Newsman Lou Dobbs mulls run for White House, Senate (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  Reuters – A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate. The rest is here: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Newsman Lou Dobbs mulls run ...
  1 week ago

• WA Police using Smartrider public transport data to track people

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 140
  WA Today reports that police are weekly requesting personal information from Perth’s public transport system without a subpoena – and are receiving it. Police using Smartrider to track people Police are using the Public Transport Authority’s Smartrider electronic ticketing system to track people’s ...
  1 week ago

• Obama, Hillary and My Weird Emails

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  Catholics are rising . It’s 2004 all over again. Can holding back communion be far behind? That’s the talking point from Politico’s Jeanne Cummings today: “There could be political repercussions in the election. It could be harder for the Democrats to keep those Catholics voters they gained and they may ...
  1 week ago

• TM-DC PODCAST: An Interview with Martha Coakley

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  TM-DC podcast Listen now! The late Sen. Ted Kennedy would be proud to have Martha Coakley , the current attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, take up where he left off, especially on health care . Ms. Coakley is sharp, frank and well qualified, reminding me of another female, ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Am Not A Hunter

  
  Rook's Rant — Authority: 428
  But that does not mean I believe others should not have the right to hunt .
  2 weeks ago

• Judge says hes walking a line with officer who took attorneys file

  
  Heat City — Authority: 619
  Judge Gary Donahoe Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe looked out on a courtroom divided cleanly in half on Tuesday, all the way back through the gallery. On one side was a packed batch of local defense attorneys. On the other, a battery of sheriffs deputies, each donning a brown uniform and badge. Donahoe scanned ...
  2 weeks ago

• Its OK to Blame These Baby Boomers for Not Being Able to Marry

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  Its not just the gays on YouTube whose apathy is wholly responsible for your lack of civil rights! The middle-aged Baby Boomers are also F-ing you over as we speak, because they care more about landscaping their back yards and their tee times than your right to marry. CONTINUED » Permalink | 3 comments ...
  2 weeks ago

• Camille Paglia’s Schizophrenic Thought Salad on Salon

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  I’d cackle at this column on Salon.com if it weren’t so seriously pathetic. Ms. Paglia begins… Pelosi’s victory for women Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess, but her gritty maneuvering shows her mettle…. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend. In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lynn Woolsey: IRS Should Look At Bishops

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  updated below Loving me some Lynn Woolsey today. From Politico : I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill. I just didn’t expect it from the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Who elected them to Congress? The role the bishops played ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smoke Signals from 1600

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  “I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill,” Obama said. “And we’re not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.” … “I want to make sure that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dem Women Threaten Health Care Passage Over Stupak Amendment

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  updated Although House liberals voted for the bill with the amendment to keep the process moving forward, Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that includes the amendment — enough to block passage. “There’s going to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Misinformed College Reporter Screws Over Gay Is Not the New Black Movement

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  We do not feel hostility or disappointment or even frustration for Sherri Keaton, a straight black woman. We just feel bad for Keaton, a senior reporter for Central Michigan Life , and (were thus assuming) a student at Central Michigan University. Because the second she wrote a piece titled "Gay isnt the new ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  expanded from cross-post at Huffington Post The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn’t have a robust public option, but also sells out women’s civil rights . The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nancy Pelosi’s Disgrace

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 608
  updated Because of the limits placed on the exchanges, most of the participants will have some form of premium credit or affordable subsidy. That means most will be ineligible for abortion coverage. The idea that people are going to go out and purchase separate “abortion plans” is both cruel and laughable. If ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anti- Abortion Democrats Get Vote To Ban Abortion Funding From Obamacare

  
  Wake up America — Authority: 583
  CNN reports: In a late night development, anti-abortion Democrats scored a major victory by persuading Democratic leaders to allow them to offer an amendment during the House health care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so-called ...
  3 weeks ago

• Welcome to Libertarianism

  
  Cerebrate's Contemplations — Authority: 131
  Deplorable although the results of the gay marriage vote in Maine are, per se , it is nevertheless refreshing to observe the outpouring of outrage at the general concept of putting peoples rights up for a popular vote. (The idea of anything at all being too sacred to put up for a vote seeming to have become such a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Civil Rights defeat in Maine

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Maine became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum Some said the loss was a sign that the state-by-state approach favored by the largest gay-rights groups had failed and that the focus should move to repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-sex ...
  3 weeks ago

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