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A majority of Michiganians supports gay marriage and broadening rights for homosexuals, a dramatic reversal from just a few years ago, according to a statewide poll released Tuesday to The Detroit News and WDIV-TV Channel 4. Support for same-sex marriage has increased to 56.8 percent, up 12.5 percentage points from last year —...
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Elwin Wilson, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who famously apologized for his past racism, has died at age 76. Fifty years ago John Lewis, who would later go on to become a representative for Georgia in Congress, was beaten by Wilson and his friends at a South Carolina bus station....
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HIV test urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients The state dental board is looking into this disturbing case and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency is even getting involved because a patient who tested positive for Hepatitis C and HIV claimed her only recent risk factor was a dental appointment. Upon an examination of Harrington’s...
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United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation. On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill...
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Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the chief prosecutor investigating the massacre said Thursday. The total included 154 fired from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and a final bullet, fired from a Glock 10mm handgun, that...
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Jodi Arias Trial: Domestic violence expert testifies A domestic violence expert testified Tuesday in Jodi Arias’ murder trial that most victims don’t tell anyone about abuse because they feel ashamed and humiliated, though the witness spoke only in generalities and didn’t discuss whether she ever met with Arias. Alyce LaViolette, a psychotherapist who specializes...
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Listening Here The Supreme Court Heard Arguments Today, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in the Proposition 8 case (Hollingsworth v. Perry). The audio recording and unofficial version of the transcript of the oral arguments are available at this link.
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SCOTUS to take up Prop 8, DOMA As public opinion on gay marriage continues to shift, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the federal government can refuse to recognize it, and whether the states can ban it in the first place. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. nbc news
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The so-called morning-after pill has exploded in popularity since it was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration 15 years ago. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5.8 million American women used emergency contraception (EC) between 2006 and 2010. Nearly a quarter of sexually active women...
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Obama to Propose Assault Weapons Ban Tomorrow Joe Biden has delivered his recommendations and he is what President Obama is proposing tomorrow according to sources: Universal Background Checks High-Capacity Magazine Ban Assault Weapons Ban Agressive Prosecution of Existing Gun Laws More Info to Come Shortly. Breaking News.
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As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to two billion tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday. The UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) blames the “staggering” new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one...
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Feinstein to introduce assault weapons ban // On the first day of the new Congress, the California Democrat Dianne Feinstein will introduce the bill in the Senate. These are the guns the killer had with him, the Assault rifle ‘Bushmaster’ did all the killing according to the reports. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,”...
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Following wins for marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado on Tuesday night, a former Seattle police chief and a former Denver police officer sat down with Raw Story to discuss what the laws will actually do and how they think things will change. “Today is a great day for America!” exclaimed Tony Ryan, a...
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This Woman Lists 6 Powerful Reasons Why She Is No Longer A Mormon – VIDEO 1. Extreme indoctination – not allowed to think for yourself at all 2. Extreme sexism 3. Extreme racism 4. Extreme anti-gay 5. Crazy beliefs – men become gods of their own planets with many wives after they die 6....
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Columbus Day is a strange American holiday and historically controversial. As an avid history buff, I find our celebration of Christopher Columbus rather disturbing on several levels. American history books largely celebrate the Italian explorer as a hero, an intrepid entrepreneur who discovered America—even though he never set foot on U.S. soil. As children,...
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Two big employers, including one based in the Chicago area, are changing the way they provide health insurance to their workers. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, Sears Holdings Corp., headquartered in Hoffman Estates, and Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains, reportedly are making a radical change that...
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As we celebrate our nation’s independence, now is a good day to commit some time to preserving the values and principles that make our nation great. Here are three things you can do: 1. Register To Vote: The cornerstone of our democracy is the right to vote. Make sure that you are registered, and...
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Whenever I write about marijuana I always feel the need to clarify that I do not smoke pot and I never have. If it was fully legalized tomorrow, I would not run out and buy some. The only way I would is if a doctor prescribed it and even then I would not do...
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VIDEO – Here is the full video of the President’s Announcement Today on his New Policy on Immigration. From the Rose Garden.
President Obama announced a major step forward for America’s young immigrants.
With abortion an ever increasingly divisive topic in this year’s political cycle, the issue is now being injected into the Homeland Security debate. The House recently passed the Homeland Security spending bill, HR 5855, which includes a clause outlawing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency from providing abortions to illegal immigrants other than...
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