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• GOP Congressman announces opposition to abortion because fetuses masturbate in the womb and can therefore feel pain

  
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  Wait….he said what?!?!? Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, said Monday he is opposed to abortion because fetuses masturbate in the womb, and so can feel both pleasure and pain. “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, citing his experience as an OB/GYN, ...
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• The Santa Monica College Active Killer: What We Can Learn

  
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  Editors Note: For the past six months, a national media drumbeat has been sounding: "Pass gun control laws like the ones they have in California and stop these mass killings." On Friday, June 7, the latest mass killing happened...in California. As Active Response Trainings Greg Ellifritz points out below, there is ...
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• The President Has No Spine: Syria Here We Come!

  
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  It is time to let the rest of the world get involved if they must…but it is time for the United States to stop thinking that we need to be involved in every local conflict in the world. But now, bowing to pressure from critics, advisers and purportedly former President Clinton, the president is moving the US more ...
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• Jeb Bush: Immigrants ‘More Fertile,’ USA Will Decline Without Them [Video]

  
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  Jeb Bush spoke out Friday in support of immigration reform, but his claim that immigrants are “more fertile” might have startled people who otherwise share his beliefs. The former Republican governor of Florida spoke today at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington, D.C. You can see his remarks in the ...
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• 14-Year Old Boy Murdered by Syrian "Rebels"

  
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  The Washington Post reports has a report on those "rebels the West (including President Obama) has begun to support. (Sigh.) When a 14-year-old boy from the Syrian city of Aleppo named Mohammad Qatta was asked to bring one of his customers some coffee, he reportedly refused, saying, “Even if Mohammed comes back ...
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• Add the FBI Director to the List of Washington "Know Nothings"

  
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• Lois Lerners Not the Only Math Dummy at the IRS

  
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  The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit report that in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge cards issued by Citibank. The report said that during the two years in question agency employees sent ...
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• Veterans Ask For Help Preserving One of a Kind Historical Treasure

  
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  “ I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: ‘I served in the United States Navy ’.” Former President and PT Boat Commander John F. Kennedy Once ...
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• Big Surprise: Pelosis Confused

  
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  Yapping away today, Pelosi noted that one of governments jobs involves helping Americans attain "fulfillment" - whatever that is. Its amazing that people continue to elect her, given her evident ignorance. In this country, the role of government is to perform a limited number of tasks, while for the most part ...
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• On Poverty and Philanthropy

  
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  A bit delayed in posting these – but better late that never to urge more focus on the shifting landscape of poverty in America, the rotten Farm Bill, and the generosity of the ruling class. The New Face of Poverty in America | NationofChange A point to consider which Hightower doesn’t make about poverty ...
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• Get It Together & Grow Up

  
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  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy If you missed All In with Chris Hayes last night, check out this clip. If you dont have five minutes to watch the entire thing, make sure you catch his monologue from midway on.
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• CNN Photo Essay: Ohio teachers pose with their guns

  
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  by Chad D. Baus CNNs Lauren Russell has written two articles on the move to arm teachers here in Ohio. Accompanying her article is a photo essay compiled by an Italian photographer. From the article accompanying the photo essay, entitled " Teachers pose with their guns ": Decembers massacre at Sandy Hook ...
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• Playing pundit

  
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  She’s not known for the op-ed, but Maryland GOP Chair Diana Waterman tried her hand at the art of the written world recently, penning a piece called “Free Markets, Free People Eliminate Poverty.” In last week’s edition of  The Economist , it was reported that capitalism and free markets are credited with ...
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• Deinstitutionalization

  
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  Perhaps the best piece Ive read about the long-term effects of the policy known as deinstitutionalization ran in the Washington Post today. Harold Pollack, a professor at the University of Chicago and a fellow at the Century Foundation , wrote an important opinion piece on the policy. He points out the disparity ...
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• Tim Kaine Talks To Virginians

  
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  Senator Tim Kaine provided this important message to his constituents and the country from the floor of the United States Senate the other day. I’m certain all of his constituents felt very encouraged hearing this.
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• More Dispatches from the Culture Wars

  
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  * "Belgian Parliament Posed To Approve Child Euthanasia Law" International Business Times ) * "Plan B: Obama allows morning-after pill for under-17s" ( Guardian ) * "Audio: IRS agent tells pro-life group, Keep your faith to yourself." (Hot Air Blog) * "Rangel Gives Obama Pass on NSA: ‘If It Was a ...
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• NSA and Emoleaks

  
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  Yesterday, Chris Smith and I joined Brad Riter to discuss and debate the NSA leak controversy.  Here it iscourtesy of TrendingBuffalo.com.
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• Secrecy & Subterfuge: Clapper Fits Right In with Team Obama

  
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  Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. His latest take: Its an unfair question, he said, like "When are you going to stop beating your ...
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• Google or Government?

  
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  The ugly fact: our government is capturing all of our phone records. It reportedly is grabbing our credit card information, as well tracking us online. The latest “defense” of this practice? Such mined data’s no worse than the information we voluntarily provide Google or Facebook or other big, bad corporations. ...
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• Someone else’s ‘new normal’

  
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  Every so often I point out how other states are taking advantage of avenues our fair state of Maryland cannot – or will not – compete in. One such area is energy exploration, which has benefited states like Texas and Alaska for decades, and more recently turned North Dakota from a state which was stagnant in ...
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