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Top Komen Officials Resign over Planned Parenthood Controversy
As of Thursday evening, at least three high ranking officials of Susan G. Komen for the Cure have resigned over the breast cancer charity’s decision to suspend funding of Planned Parenthood. Dr....
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Senate Passes Ban on Insider Trading
The Senate has passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, 96-3. The bill makes it illegal for Congress members, their staffs and also many executive-branch workers to indulge in...
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NY AG Sues BofA, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase over Mortgage Fraud
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a suit against Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo over their abuse of a private database, MERS, in handling mortgages. The suit...
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Mortgage Settlement – More Questions Than Answers
In a historic move aimed at arresting the spiraling downward slide of the housing industry five major banks entered into an agreement to pay $ 25 billion in cash to resolve this mess. However, it has...
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High Price to Pay for Tweeting
An incongruous mixture of archaic religious strictures and cutting-edge technology could result in the possible execution, by beheading, of a young Saudi journalist, accused of insulting the Prophet...
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Prison Labor in US – Unicor, the Hidden Face of Federal Commerce
The Federal Prison Industries have been around for decades without attracting much notice from the public, as all its work happens behind the federal government’s curtain. Production is made on prison...
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University Drops Entire Student Health Plan over Birth Control Mandate
A Catholic institution, the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, is dropping its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall semester 2012 because of the new federal birth control rules...
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California’s Prop 29 Defeated
Voters in California defeated Proposition 29 on Tuesday night by a 50.8 percent to 49.2 percent count with all 21,993 precincts in the state reporting. Proposition 29 is a proposal to raise the...
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The Changing Face of Poverty
Compared to the kings of yore, the average American obviously has the advantage with a more flattering wardrobe, technological devices undreamed of centuries ago, access to the world’s literature for...
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U.S. Deportation Recognizes Same-Sex Couples as Families
The notorious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) may become increasing undermined, de facto, as federal laws sidestep it. Despite DOMA defining marriage as between one man and one woman, Department of...
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New Senate Bill Will Give Feds Access to your Emails and Facebook without...
Our internet civil liberties are at stake again, as Congress slowly builds the sorts of laws that will underlay the entire internet. Patrick Leahy, Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
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TSA Earns Congressman’s Ire after Exposing his Grand-Niece’s Breasts
We all know the TSA goes too far. Who hasn’t heard a story about some elderly man having his walker probed for explosives or some “suspicious looking” teen invasively searched? When it happens to the...
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California Atty. Gen. Holds Federal Detention Requests are Not Mandatory
On Tuesday, California Attorney General, Kamala Harris said that federal detention requests are not mandatory in nature and it rests upon concerned local law enforcement authorities who may...
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NRA Makes Its First Comment after Connecticut Massacre
On Tuesday, the National Rifle Association posted on its website its first comments on the Connecticut school shooting. The statement on the homepage of the NRA read, “The National Rifle Association of...
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Planned Parenthood Takes a Hit in Oklahoma
There are some disagreements as to why a Federal Judge let Oklahoma terminate a contract with Planned Parenthood. Ostensibly, the judge cited the failure of Planned Parenthood to respond to state...
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Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Released by Homeland Security: Checkmate to...
Just a week before the fiscal cliff stalemate causes mandatory budget cuts to go into effect, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing hundreds illegal immigrants from detention citing...
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Protesters March in Detroit against Emergency Law
On Thursday, protesters in Detroit came out in support of a lawsuit filed on Wednesday challenging Michigan’s emergency manager law. The lawsuit claimed that the law “effectively establishes a new form...
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FDA Changing Labeling Rules for Tobacco Alternatives
On Monday, the Consumer Updates of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed that soon the labels of nicotine replacement therapy products may soon change. The proposed changes have come in the...
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Seattle Public Schools Will Not Punish Teachers Who Boycotted Standardized Test
On Friday, Jose Banda, the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, announced on the school district’s website that “There will be no discipline of any test administrator.” Jose referred to the fact...
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U.S. Changes Security Clearance Question to Help Sex Assault Victims
On Friday, in what an activist termed as a “huge victory for survivors of military sexual assault,” the U.S. government announced that people in U.S. national security jobs can now opt out of Question...
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