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• Government To Decide Who Lives And Who Dies

  
  The United Families International Blog — Authority: 127
  The worst nightmare for any parent is the thought of losing a child.  For Isaac and Rebecca May this nightmare has become a reality.  After complications with their son, Isaiah’s, birth the May family has experienced one trial after another.  For Isaiah’s grandmother and grandfather, Kathy and Bob Griffis, this ...
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• Support your Second Amendment IF you love your freedom

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 160
  http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100209/OPINION03/2090309 The reasoning behind the 2nd Amendment is made clear by Thomas Jeffersons quote, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." The right ...
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• Using lawsuits to prevent foster care: CR’s big epiphany - all these years, they’ve gotten the law all wrong!

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 456
  Using lawsuits to prevent foster care: CR’s big epiphany - all these years, they’ve gotten the law all wrong! Back in 2002, I wrote an op ed column for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel criticizing a settlement of one of the McLawsuits brought by the group that so arrogantly calls itself Childrens Rights. The ...
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• Gay Military Rights Activist and Arabic Translator Dan Choi Back on Drill Duty

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 148
  Gay military rights advocate Lt. Dan Choi has been called back into drill duty, he told The Advocate in a phone interview Tuesday.
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• South Africans attacked Ethiopians with “impunity”

  
  Abbay Media — Authority: 136
  JOHANNESBURG, 9 February 2010 (IRIN) – Foreign nationals are being attacked with “impunity” in South Africa, a leading human rights organization charged as the latest service delivery protests turned violent and several hundred residents turned their anger on Ethiopian refugees living in Siyathemba township, ...
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• Yet another Letter to the Editor trying to create a set of Rights that are just blithering (as in ....fool)

  
  GraniteGrok — Authority: 442
  In one of the local papers was one of the local professors whining about the fact that he doesnt like bikers without helmets - "what about the rights of ME when you dump the bike?" seems to be the complaint. Well, there is one thing on which I will agree with him on (which will come later) but a faux right is not one ...
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• Oxfam Auction For Haiti Raises Celebrity Charity Cash

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 535
  Written by Tim Saunders The recent Oxfam auction to help survivors of the Haitian earthquake has raised US$190,000 for the charity. “I’d like to thank everyone involved,” said Emily Eavis, organizer of the auction and of the Glastonbury music festival. “Everyone’s been so generous, it’s fantastic ...
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• Threesomes Are Fun

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 441
  They say good things come in threes, so I guess that explains this: Both Democrats running for governor, Attorney General Patrick Lynch and General Treasurer Frank Caprio, and former Senator Lincoln Chafee, an Independent, publicly pledged to sign a gay marriage bill if elected. The three men have been ...
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• Labour Protest Posters

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 454
  [IMG: http://democracyforburma.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/labour-protest-a4-300x212.jpg?w=300&h=212][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyforburma.wordpress.com&blog=5783676&post=22493&subd=democracyforburma&ref=&feed=1]
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• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on junta’s planned 2010 election

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 454
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• Relocation and Land Confiscation on Madae Island for Gas Pipeline

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 454
  2/9/2010 Kyaukpru: Houses in two villages on Madae Island in Kyaukpru Township were forcibly relocated and land was confiscated for construction of a gas pipeline and jetty on the island, said one villager. “15 houses each from Prin Village and Wrama Village on the island were forced to relocate and 15 acres of ...
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• Black Helicopters Spotted over Texarkana – Nashville And the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas!!!!!

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 148
  In Full: Palin’s Tea Party Speech Black Helicopters Spotted over Texarkana, Nashville And the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas!!!!! Check Out This Link Roger that!! We got Fundamentalists in Texas again!! We’re on it, over!!! We got Warren Jeffs locked up, ...
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• Editor Appeals Sentence in China

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 898
  A literary editor sentenced by a Chinese court to five years in prison gave a defiant handwritten appeal to the court on Wednesday.
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• Socialist Unity finally notices Amnesty debate

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 705
  Andy Newman has posted quite a disappointing response on Socialist Unity to the debate around Amnesty International parading around Mozzam Begg as if he were a human rights defender (and suspending Gita Sahgal after she blew the whistle when her internal objections were ignored). Newman’s take? Well… This seems ...
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• Simon Cowells Charity Single Smashes Records

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 535
  Written by Tim Saunders Simon Cowells star-studded cover of Everybody Hurts aimed at benefiting Haitian earthquake victims has become the fastest selling charity single of the century. Sales have topped 200,000 in just two days, and the single is on course to smash the first week sales of any single in ten ...
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• Appeal judge watered down Binyam Mohamed torture ruling

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Government persuaded Lord Neuberger to delete damning references to MI5 culture of suppressing evidence Read the letter that reveals the draft ruling Follow David Milibands Commons statement on the torture ruling The government launched a successful last-minute bid to persuade the court of appeal to erase the ...
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• White House concert honors music of civil rights era – CNN

  
  AnythingBlack.Net — Authority: 149
  From CNN: Civil rights songs were the soundtrack of the movement that helped bring President Obama to the White House. On Tuesday, Obama welcomed an array of artists to celebrate those songs. Click here to read more Click here to read today’s top headlines
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• Monserrate Out, Whos Next?

  
  Albany Media Bias — Authority: 142
  So...they did it. They voted Monserrate our overwhelmingly . On a misdemeanor conviction thats being appealed. Now theres a law on the books that if youre convicted of a felony you are expelled. No ones questioning that, as far as I know. But he wasnt convicted of a felony. They didnt even pass a law saying ...
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• Shan army ‘should prepare for fighting’

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 454
  Feb 10, 2010 (DVB)–A senior Burmese junta security chief has reportedly warned a Shan-based ethnic army to expect conflict unless it transforms into a Border Guard Force and allies itself with the government. The deadline for ceasefire groups to transform into Border Guard Force (BGF) has been inked for the end of ...
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• GITA SAHGAL AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

  
  SOCIALIST UNITY — Authority: 143
  The row between Gita Sahgal and Amnestry International rumbles on. This is concerning Gita Sahgal’s suspension by Amnesty pursuant to a disciplinary case against her, the specific details of which I do not know, but which concerns her public repudiation of Amnesty International’s association with former Guantanamo ...
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