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• Pete Hoekstra, Administration is Withholding Information on Fort Hood Attack, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, CIA, FBI, NSA, Obama said people should not jump to conclusions, Hoekstra ranking member on the House intelligence committee

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From CNS News, November 9, 2009. “Intel Committee Republican Says Administration is Withholding Information on Fort Hood Attack, Demands Preservation of Documents for Possible Congressional Probe” “Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, ...
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• People with disabilities face increasing financial and discriminatory pressures

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 490
  Yet many report that life has got better By Eleanor Gore, Guardian.co.uk Despite nearly 15 years of new legislation, the results of a new survey reveal that disabled people in the UK are facing rising levels of poverty and discrimination. Yet many disabled people believe things are getting better. What explains ...
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• Westover Baptist Targets the Obama Children

  
  Anti-BVBL — Authority: 435
  How low can they go? Westover Baptist ‘Church’ tries for a new low as they now are demonstrating outside Sidwell Friends, the Obama children’s school. Westover Baptist is run by Fred Phelps and family and is well know for attending the funerals of our fallen military troops while screaming vitriol and hate at ...
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• Cops investigate possible hate crime aga…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  Cops investigate possible hate crime against Muslim family on Long Island. I think there must be more to the story than was reported because the head of the hate crimes unit spent the morning at the condominium where it happened, as did the head of a local Muslim advocacy group. The woman who lives in the condo on ...
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• The anti-gay plan to undo hate crimes law

  
  InterstateQ.com — Authority: 103
  Both Queerty and Bilerico have commented on a WND story about a challenge next week to the new hate crimes legislation signed by Obama on Oct. 27. They say anti-gay activists are attempting to call for violence against LGBT people. I think the plan is much simpler and less sinister, but all the more susceptible [...]
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• Religious Bigots will Hold Rally to Provoke Arrests Under New Hate Crimes Law.

  
  The Gaytheist Agenda — Authority: 108
  The anti-gay bigots screamed, tantrumed and rended their garments for the longest time before the Matthew Shepard Act passed. The notion that people might suffer a stiffer penalty for targeting a person because of their gender, sexual orientation (be it heterosexual or homosexual), gender identity (transgender or ...
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• Knife Wielding Anti-Gay Attack on Long Island, Teen Arrested

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 564
  There has an arrest for a second anti-gay hate crime attack on New Yorks Long Island. Nassau County Police say they arrested a Bellmore teen on hate crime charges who was part of a knife-wielding duo "yelling anti-gay slurs" that...
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• Which Leviticus Should We Expect to Hear?

  
  Right Wing Watch — Authority: 682
  Religious Right participants in the upcoming hate crimes legislation protest sure intent on generating some press for themselves, as in the last few hours both Gary Cass and Paul Blair have issued press releases about it.  And this is raising an interesting question about just how they intend to go about ...
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• ‘Fry in hell, faggots!’

  
  Mike Tidmus : A blog from San Diego — Authority: 539
  [ updated: see below ] Barry Duke , writing at Great Britain’s Freethinker , is astonished by the degree of hatred toward LGBT Americans espoused by elements of the radical religious right here in the Land of the Free . Here’s a taste from his piece Fry in hell, faggots! : JUST when I thought I had a ...
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• >>Chilling Effect of Hate Crimes Law?

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 441
  Chilling Effect of Hate Crimes Law? » The Foundry Watch what you are thinking!!  It just may send you to prison.  That’s the new hate Crimes bill that Congress passed  under the cover of a defense spending bill.  The Hate Crimes bill could not stand-alone so the Democrats attached it to a bill for funding ...
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• After Lucero murder, others tell of abuse

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 446
  The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping.""Jose, Kevin and I started popping and Jose punched him so hard he knocked him out," Anthony Hartford told police, according to prosecutors.Hartford said he didnt do it often: "Maybe only once a week."There had ...
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• Anti-Gay Artur Davis was the Only Black Vote Against Health Care

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 564
  In April, the predictably anti-gay Artur Davis—the black conservative Democrat from Birmingham, Alabama who boasts an abysmal 45 percent Human Rights Campaign score—was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
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• Obama Deserves Praise for Signing Hate Crimes Law

  
  Best Gay Blogs — Authority: 138
  As a legally blind lesbian, I celebrated on Oct. 28 when the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This legislation, sought by gay and lesbian and other civil rights groups for more than 10 years, enlarges the definition of federal hate crimes to include those committed ...
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• The Tea Gets Iced

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 496
  Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas: To help cover huge medical bills in Bastrop, Texas, they hold a Main Street pancake supper, an American Legion auction. Essential health care shouldn’t depend on the kindness of strangers, the goodness of neighbors, and certainly not the just say “No” of ...
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• Authorities give up on case of murdere…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  Authorities give up on case of murdered Southern California imam – crime was never designated a hate crime, FBI never investigated. The case involving a local Muslim leader killed in a Yermo house fire still hasn’t produced any suspects and investigators are now shelving the case, according to officials from ...
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• Some just a little more equal than others Pt. III

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 526
  The case began when the two women approached anti-abortion advocate Johnny Wallace, 69. Wallace had been standing in front of City Hall with a billboard sign espousing his views on abortion. Witnesses told police that the two women approached Wallace and began to try to take and destroy the sign he was holding. ...
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• Disability hate crime in Cornwall

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 425
  While the motives for the recent murder of Mary Fox in Bodmin, Cornwall, are not yet known , it is fairly clear that her son Raum Fox has been a victim of hate crime in the past. According to The Times , Raum had been bullied at Bodmin College about his acne and reported learning difficulties. He recently moved ...
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• Fort Hood Sparks Muslim Bashing in Mainstream Media

  
  DREAMACTIVIST — Authority: 519
  Consider this a public service announcement. This bothers me more than the daily hatred spewed by talk show hosts like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck. Why? Because most people already know what to expect from those haters. But when the broad mainstream media from the Associated Press to CNN to MSNBC wastes no time ...
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• Rape, racism and Republicans

  
  THE SWASH ZONE — Authority: 501
  A friend of mine used to have the job, back during the Vietnam war, of flying a helicopter over dangerous areas so as to draw fire from hidden gun emplacements, flushing out the enemy so that we knew where they were. Barak Obama has been a bit like that and sad to say, Ive now identified far too many enemies, some ...
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• Gay Orgs Joint Statement about the Hate Crimes Law

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 517
  History in the Making It took much too long, more than a decade. And it came at too great a price: the brutal killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. are just two among the thousands of crimes motivated by hate and bigotry. But this week, the president put pen to paper and fulfilled a campaign promise, ...
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