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• Bigots detect a new gay marriage threat: young people will shun public sector jobs

  
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  ON the day that MPs voted against an amendment to the Equality Act as a sop to bigots who disagree with allowing same-sex couples to marry, the Daily Telegraph carried a letter warning that thousands of young Christians who believe in traditional marriage will think twice before taking public sector jobs. A gang ...
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• Oh Look, It’s Nixon!

  
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  market-ticker.org / By Karl Denninger / May 19, 2013 Oh boy, here we go. President Barack Obama will not cooperate in a “partisan fishing expedition” over who knew what and when about revelations that groups seeking tax-exempt status were subject to extra Internal Revenue Service scrutiny. “We are going ...
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• CFI’s Ronald Lindsay Learns How NOT To Encourage Women In Secularism

  
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  Ronald A. Lindsay – President & CEO Center for Inquiry The second Women in Secularism Conference was held in Washington, DC this weekend. The conference is a response to the struggle inside secular groups to reach out and encourage more participation by women. There has been a vocal minority of mostly men who ...
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• In the 50s world in which I grew up, moral thinking started with "paying your dues"

  
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  When I was growing up, it seemed that the most important “moral issue” in the world was whether someone a bit “different” like me would learn to perform “for others” according to gender, even when openness to sacrifice was required and even when it meant giving up any edge in my own abilities.    ...
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• Women In Secularism 2 – What the Secular Movement Can Learn[...] liveblog #wiscfi

  
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  What the Secular Movement Can Learn from Other Social Movements with Greta Christina, Carrie Poppy, Desiree Schell, and moderator Soraya Chemaly Soraya: We have marginal representation in society. Was known even in 42 BC, by Hortensia (look her up). Going to compare secular movement in terms of organizational and ...
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• Jet Airways’ crediting 20% extra miles on 20th anniversary

  
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  Jet Airways has sent out emails to several members of the Jet Privilege program, where they are crediting 20% of the flown miles for the last 20 flights flown with Jet Airways/Jet Konnect between the period 05 May 1993 to 05 May 2013. The mileage credit is exclusive of cabin bonuses, tier bonuses or any other bonus, ...
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• Bad Penny

  
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  Mouthpiece meets Codpiece.  John Edwards ready to ruin more lives .  Edwards said last year he hoped to someday open an advocacy law firm to serve indigent clients and that he hoped to find a way to contribute to society.  Wade Smith, a Raleigh defense lawyer who served as Edwards mentor early in his legal ...
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• Lessons From Two Components of Mothering

  
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  Greetings my gentle readers to another week’s installment of the “Be Yourself, Often” blog at  www.joelwlamoure.com  . Hopefully, this is a point of time The post Lessons From Two Components of Mothering appeared first on the St. Thomas blog .
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• It begins

  
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  Remember yesterday, when I said “liberals” would be dismissing the outrageous actions of the Obama IRS out of hand? I’d bet a few of you out there shook your heads on reading that and thought, “No, they wouldn’t do that; they couldn’t possibly. That’s just too much.” Eh bien. National Journal: IRS ...
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• An Open Letter to President Obama on the Matter of Assata Shakur

  
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  Dear Mr. President, First of all, let me congratulate you on your massive re election win back in November. I voted for you and am proud to have done so. However, I am troubled by the recent act by your administration of placing Assata Shakur, the former Joanne Chesimard, on the most wanted domestic terrorist list. ...
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• Totally Biased: Anything You Want to Say to a White Guy? [VIDEO]

  
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  My man W. Kamau Bell is back on FX for a second season of his show “Totally Biased.” I really dig this cat and the work he puts in as a board member of Applied Research Center — they’re responsible for bringing us the site colorlines.com . Anyway, this week on his show he took to New York City streets to ...
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• Lush Park Benches

  
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  Ideally, park benches would normally be made of wood or steel, far from the usual comfort that folks would want when they want to sit down and pamper themselves silly. But Dutche designer Joost Goudriaan enhances the traditional benches we see everyday with the addition of upholstery – something you can spot over at ...
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• Mothers and Daughters: Smart Girls Say the Darndest Things

  
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  Mothers Days: The trouble with mothering bright girlsMother: Oh, honey, I love you, too......... Daughter: No, Mom. I said I love YouTube read more
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• Farm Workers Fired for Leaving Fields During California Wildfire

  
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  Okay, so here is a story that’s bound to get my right-wing-leaning, anti-union, anti-immigrant pro-slavery readers full of joy. According to reports, fifteen farm workers in California were fired for walking off the job earlier than they were supposed to last week. Why did they leave, and why did they expect to ...
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• Open Thread: The Rush To Memeify Charles Ramsey

  
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  By Arturo R. García As both Kat Chow at Code Switch and Slate’s Aisha Harris have pointed out, it did not take long for Charles Harris to join Antoine Dodson and Sweet Brown as the latest figure to be posted on many of our friends’ Facebook pages with notes like “Best. Interview. EVER.” or some ...
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• Weariness and Sustenance

  
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  I am weary of how some of us find it acceptable to insult or dismiss people with whom we disagree. I am weary of some of us posturing as experts when, really, we know very little. I am weary of the way I dismiss things/ideas/people because they make me uncomfortable, because they challenge me spiritually, ...
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• Protected: A little more of the truth

  
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• This Is What Privileged Means

  
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  Guys, Sup. If youre like me, you get a little tired of hearing how easy your life is and how privileged you are ad nauseum . Hey, were scratching and clawing out a living just like anyone else, right? When I have moments like those, I turn to social media for enlightenment. Just this week alone, Ive had enough ...
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• Barack Obama’s Message — Continuation of the National Emergency with respect to the Actions of the Government of Syria

  
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  Dandelion Salad Propaganda Alert! The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 7, 2013 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency, unless, within 90 days prior to the ...
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• The Privilege of Skepticism

  
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  If you are reading this and are from North America — and perhaps even if you arent — you are no doubt aware of just how divisive the issue of climate change is in the US and Canada. Experts from both sides of the issue are regular installments on the 24-hour news networks, presenting the latest data in favor of or ...
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