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The digital media is lit up like a Christmas tree in a buzz over the fact that Rolling Stone is backing off on its highly sensational story about a fraternity gang rape on the campus of the ...
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BiPM includes a poll in his Friday C&J to select who won the week. I decided I needed to riff off that for my title.
I don't know that I have ever read the magazine Glamour. I mean, I may have ...
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Hi folks - There was a report on MSNBC's Al Sharpton show that aides close to Christie and some others are to be indicted. It was speculated that this would be to put more pressure on Christie and ...
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I’m so tired of writing about this crap. I’m sure you are tired of reading about it. None of us are surprised another grand jury didn’t indict a cop. Grand juries indict 99.9 percent of time.
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Rolling stone issued a statement today regarding its widely publicized story, A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA .
To Our Readers:
Last month, Rolling Stone ...
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Like many of you, I’ve been thinking about the recent deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers in Missouri, New York, and Ohio quite a bit, mostly looking back at my own interactions with ...
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Sean Hannity said this about John Boehner's response to the non-indictment of the cop who killed Eric Garner.
Via Media Matters :
Anyway, So John Boehner, um, is now second-guessing the jury ...
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As a Vietnam Era veteran, I have watched wars develop - last a long time and prove nothing.! We have an asleep-at-the-wheel legislature, elected by less than 30% of those eligible to vote. The ...
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It was a little after 8:30 in the morning. I was sitting out on the concrete patio of a strip mall coffee shop in Dearborn, Michigan, still dead to the world due to the deficit of caffeine and ...
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Kerry Eleveld
After years of focusing the bulk of our resources on our technology department, it's been super nice to be able to devote more of our budget to our editorial team. A month or two ago, ...
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Putin's birthdays have routinely been used by his supporters as opportunities for propaganda trumpeting his swaggeringly aggressive masculinity.
Valerie Sperling, the author of a new book: Sex, ...
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Yes, you read that right. The grand jury was instructed to indict Michael Brown for assaulting a police officer. Not technically, of course, because Michael Brown is dead.
This is from Sheila ...
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Dear Winners,
Congratulations on all your achievements. You have all played the game of capitalism like absolute champions, and you are, without doubt, superlative operatives of the capitalist ...
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Please, any evidence to the contrary. And my last diary. I am about to get banned for calling jesus mia. You got problems, ...
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Let the feeding frenzy begin
The managing editor of Rolling Stone said Friday that he now believes the magazine "misplaced" its trust in Jackie, the subject of a blockbuster article on an alleged ...
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It's time to give up on the myth. The delusion has been revealed. It's not just about the choke and compression homicide of Eric Garner. It's not just that Police Departments and DAs who will ...
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My heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of Eric Garner. I hope the memories of the man outweight the injustice.
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Welcome to the December 5, 2014 Post Game Show for Mojo Friday!
I'll probably get to display a little political ignorance here today, but what the hell!
Today TexDem talks about Altemeyer's ...
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Greetings! and welcome to another Fuzzy Friday open thread with the Street Prophets group.
Well, it's December 5th which means that it's that time of year again.
It's the day when Saint Nicolas, ...
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Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors by Black Kos Editor, Sephius1
Neurobiologist Erich D. Jarvis was born on May 6, 1965, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City to musicians ...
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This worm has turned on filibuster reform.
by Joan McCarter
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And it's not even the 1800s. All I have to say about this story is...
Holy FUCK! Look what these assholes are doing now!
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It seems increasingly apparent to me that one of the Democratic Party's biggest enemies is not necessarily the Republican Party, but, rather, dangerous assumptions by Democrats themselves.
There ...
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If you want to stop losing elections, not only Congressional elections, but legislatures and governorships too, you had better realize that the conservatives are winning for a few simple reasons. ...
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Rev. Jackie Carter is the pastor of the First Metropolitan Community Church in Wichita. For performing same-sex marriages, she is routinely receiving death threats.
From The New Civil Rights ...
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Brothers and sisters ... Pastor Anderson is at it again ... back in 2009 we protested against his hateful prayers asking for our president's death ... now he is openly instigating hate and possible ...
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In response to the failure to indict the police in the killing of Eric Garner, literally hundreds of protests have been organized across the US over the last couple of days, with thousands upon ...
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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are increasingly seen as leaders of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, largely as a result of being the most ...
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The Australian Christian Lobby's Lyle Shelton has posted on the ACL's blog a piece called " Why Dietrich Bonhoeffer still inspires me ".
After writing about what Bonhoeffer did, he then includes ...
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Neuroscience is one of the world's most exciting fields, challenging the ways we think about ourselves and our personalities. Our political behavior is no exception.
Some of the latest findings ...
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The Minnesota Republicans who just won back the lower state chamber after the urbane West Metro billionaires that love them funded a multi-million-dollar campaign depicting Republicans as hearty ...
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Emmanuel Saez is a Professor of Economics at the University of California in Berkeley, known for his income inequality research with Thomas Piketty who wrote the 2014 best seller, Capital in the ...
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Rush Limbaugh has unceremoniously committed enough atrocities that have hurt millions of people in the United States, and in fact around the world, that would expose most folks to incarceration for ...
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I struggle to understand the refusal of a Missouri Grand Jury to indict the officer involved the death of Michael Brown and a New York Grand Jury to indict the officer involved in the Eric Garner ...
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By Melissa Gunter
An Ecology Florida Feature
Pollen can be transferred via wind, gravity, water, mammals, birds, bats or insects. Out of the approximately 100 crop species that provide 90 percent ...
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It should be obvious that right's relentless bashing of our duly elected President has brought out the worst among us. In droves, it seems. This has happened from a national all the way down to a ...
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I'll get right to the point, folks.
Selling a couple of cigarettes on a New York street - that was all that Eric Garner might have done on his very last day on this Earth.
In New York City, ...
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Yes, bullying is still a problem in our schools ... even here in California. A twelve year old boy from Folsom, California has committed suicide. He was a male cheerleader at his middle school and ...
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Happy people who are now ...
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Remember that 2008 NEW YORKER cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim terrorists? It rekindled the national debate about satire, racism, and fear, and the fire has not gone out. The ...
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After penning my diary yesterday, "Conservative demonization of Obama allowed racists to crawl out from under their rocks," and reading through the comments, a sharp-eyed observer noted that I had ...
by Bob Johnson
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Once upon a time, I met a special woman while we were both attending law school in Colorado. From the title, I imagine you already know the person about whom I'm writing. It's the person I care ...
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Another NYC Horror Story. Here we go again, another Grand Jury.
The Guardian: An officer involved in a fatal shooting in a Brooklyn project texted his union representative rather than immediately ...
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love ...
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That's a picture of my funniest little valentine, Camoo. Absurdly, I named her after Albert Camus, the philosopher and novelist about whom I knew almost nothing other than that Barnes and Noble ...
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Sorry, I don't share the optimism or excitement in the headlines about the new job figures--partly because I don't believe this lasts. It's funny how the elites always demand that we think about how ...
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Let's review our current events over the last month or so that culminated in the Thanksgiving surprise by Mr. McCulloch and then the finding by the grand jury in Staten Island. To say that there ...
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The POlice and their bullshit just get worse.
Officer in lethal shooting texted union rep instead of calling ambulance: report
An officer involved in a fatal shooting in a Brooklyn project texted ...
by Richard Lyon
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Funky guitars.
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Greg Dworkin joins us in noting the Twitter jubilation over the latest jobs numbers as well as the continuing protests ...
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Rolling Stone just said that because of discrepancies in their story they no longer trust the rape victim. As the parent of a daughter and a faculty member who has heard a number of similar stories (
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This little piggie went to market
Iowa has gone Hog Wild with the proliferation of thousands of pig factory farms.
Factory Farms are Poisoning Iowa's ...
by VL Baker
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The "Reluctant PAC Man" , Warren Buffet, who claimed just two years ago that he won't donate to super-PACs because he "doesn't want to see democracy go that way" and "You have to stand for something,"
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For the second time in roughly a week, our nation is in turmoil because of a murderous police officer and the cowardice of a grand jury that refused to indict him. This situation is not only an ...
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On Monday I did the Monday Murder Mystery on the late Father Andrew Greeley. A couple days later I got a beautiful response from his niece. Follow me below the orange cheeto for something that ...
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A late Bucket on this Friday morning. Come join me in a marsh.
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the ...
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Torah: Genesis 32:4 through chapter 36
Haftarah: Obadiah (full book).
For today's D'var Torah, I've decided to focus in on the story of Dinah in Genesis 34. The setting is the land of Shechem in ...
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While getting some gas this morning the SUV at the pump in front of me had a "Ben Carson 2016" bumper sticker.
Nothing more to say. Except it put me off my breakfast.
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The Brookings Institution released a new poll on American attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presumably timed to coincide with the Saban Forum organized by the Center for Middle East ...
by Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees
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Lame duck sessions in Michigan since 2010 are more accurately described as "inflamed duck" sessions. Michigan Republicans ram more bills through in a couple of weeks than they do nearly the entire ...
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DNA is all the rage in many genealogical circles.
So, let's do a bit of a round-up of genetic fun.....
by mayim
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I am so fucking tired of this culture of trying to justify the inexcusable by finding something about the victim to make it appear to be normal.
I young boy is gunned down in around three seconds, ...
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Cops respect power. They are racist only in that they see blacks as without power.
And for those who think this is just a racial problem, please open your eyes. This is a class problem.
Cops ...
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The killing of Eric Garner is a crime that demands punishment. It has obvious and undeniable racial overtones, and that's what has many people out in the streets.
Both of those things demand ...
by gjohnsit
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I love it here because of our message and the great writers. I have a few favorites who
stand out to me: "One Pissed off Liberal" is one such writer.
I had the nice surprise of receiving a book ...
by Vet63
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After nearly a month of forensic analysis, the 2014 midterm elections are shedding more clues than a late-night CSI marathon. While the initial diagnosis spelled disaster for Democrats, a more ...
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Hey, you, shut the hell up already and respect authority!
You know, the same authority that loots trillions from the National Treasury to bailout a Wall Street run amok.
The same authority that ...
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Great news out of Canada:
About $25-billion has been invested in Canada’s clean-energy sector in the past five ...
by Walter Einenkel
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A dispatch from the GCCA team at the UN climate change conference in Lima, Peru, Runs December 1-12 .
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In his Guardian column , Graham Readfearn touches on the history of one of the most recent and most backwards denier talking points: "Coal is the moral choice." Yes, according to some, supporting a ...
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There will be no charges for the cops who shot Darrien Hunt in the back six times while he fled.
Posecutors in Utah have determined that two police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of ...
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With the holidays rapidly approaching and Aji not technologically able to post on Daily Kos at the moment, I asked for and received her permission to bring you some of Wings newest creations. In ...
by Avilyn
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