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- 5 Things That Put America to Shame (87 comments)
- Why the notion of valuing true diversity is a false and uncomfortable one! (12 comments)
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Gay Donor Dumps Romney, Donates To Obama Over Gay Marriage
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:00 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
Mitt Romney just found out that sometimes bigotry just doesn’t pay off. Bill White, a registered Independent and head of a consulting firm in NY has asked for his donation back so he can give it to President Obama’s reelection campaign instead. Bill White is openly …
Thomas Williams love child: Priest who preaches morality on TV confesses to scandal
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:42 AM EDT (the Mail online)
The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a paedophile, has been hit by another scandal after their most famous priest confessed to fathering a child several years ago. Rev. Thomas Williams, a moral theologian, lecturer and …
Why the notion of valuing true diversity is a false and uncomfortable one!
Tue May 15, 2012 9:00 AM EDT
Many people who know me and my pioneering equality work in the UK will find this post, in particular, rather strange, and might, in fact, fall off their chairs in some surprise! But that is the beauty of evolving in life from one stage to another. If we are learning, we are alwa …
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The Right's Righteous Frauds
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 8:20 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways of her elders on the censorious right and decide that personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming righteous leadership. Uncle …
The Real Death Panel: For-Profit Healthcare
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 7:06 AM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
With great emotion and hyperbole, supporters of private healthcare have passionately advocated that a not-for-profit healthcare system would decrease the quality of care patients receive and create an environment where healthcare professionals would not have adequate tools and …
5 Things That Put America to Shame
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:49 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health ca …
Daily Kos: Mitt Romney stages reverse Sistah Souljah bellyflop on gay adoption
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 2:36 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday backed away from his support of adoptions by gay couples, saying that he simply “acknowledges” the legality of such adoptions in many states. A day earlier, Romney, in an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavu …
Injustices of Stop and Frisk
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:26 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The pressure is increasing on the New York City Police Department to reform its stop-and-frisk program under which New Yorkers, nearly all innocent of any crime, were stopped by the police close to 700,000 times last year. The department said recently that it was instructing p …
New Anti-Romney Obama Ad Contrasts Stark Gay Rights Differences (VIDEO)
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 8:31 AM EDT (Politics | The New Civil Rights Movement)
The Obama For America campaign team wasted no time in putting GOP presumed nominee Mitt Romney in the hot seat over his positions on civil rights for gay people. Comparing and contrasting President Obama‘s positions to Mitt Romney’s positions, the new ad touts Obama …
How the Corporate Right Hijacked America's Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 6:57 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
For a generation, America's political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation's income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewr …
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