September 2010
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The full prepared text of President Obama's... →
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Thanks, because I don’t have cable!
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August 2010
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Mr. Beck, take notes. Thomas Jefferson quotes on... →
Hey, Glenn, since you and your impish comrades seem to have an absolute fascination with Thomas Jefferson and often use him to justify your hateful rhetoric, I just thought you’d like to see the things he really said:
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.” — letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814 (responding to the claim that Chritianity was part of the Common...
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King Tut's Family Secrets →
Saving this to read later…
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Justice = Love: Please read this. Please help. →
abcsoupdot:
caraobrien:
I’m posting this here instead of rightsandhumanity because I feel like this is a personal plea to all 3200 of you: Please speak out on behalf of Troy Davis. I’ve been following and posting about this case for well over a year now, and it’s absolutely horrifying to know that this man’s life is still in jeopardy even though there’s an astounding lack of evidence against...
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jonathan-cunningham asked: Thanks :) Sometimes he can be frustrating, but he's so typical-american-right that responding to him is kind of important, because it helps sharpen my responses to people who will actually change their opinions occasionally.
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Why Doesn't the World Care About Pakistanis? →
After the Haiti earthquake, about 3.1 million Americans using mobile phones donated $10 each to the Red Cross, raising about $31 million. A similar campaign to raise contributions for Pakistan produced only about $10,000. The amount of funding donated per person affected by the 2004 tsunami was $1249.80, and for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, $1087.33. Even for the Pakistan earthquake of 2005,...
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“We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting.”
– Michael Bloomberg, NY mayor: Stopping mosque compromises terror fight (via caraobrien)
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The rich have more money but the poor are rich in... →
azspot:
The world could one day be an economically equal place, if the lower-income population have anything to do with it. In an interesting yet disheartening series of socioeconomic experiments, led by a team of UC Berkeley researchers, the findings are that those on the lower-income levels are more likely to give and be charitable than their higher paid counterparts.
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“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to...”
– Ayn Rand (via johngaltwashere) (via charlesgomes) (via nomosshere)
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After 27 years on death row, a plea deal: Leave... →
savingpaper:
From Dan Barry, one of the best writers working at The New York Times:
You can never come back, ever. If you plead guilty to that long-ago murder in Oklahoma City, you will be released from prison, where you have spent most of the last 27 years on death row. But once free, you will be banished from Oklahoma. O.K.?
O.K., said James Fisher, trading his black-and-white-striped...
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“The main criticisms of the piece have come from Republicans, and their argument...”
– George Packer, defending against criticisms for his article here (via jonathan-cunningham)
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GOP is proud of 14th amendment they helped pass... →
jonathan-cunningham:
From the GOP achievements page:
Republicans Passed the 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment guarantees due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens. It enshrines in the Constitution provisions of the GOP’s 1866 Civil Rights Act. The original purpose of the 14th Amendment was to defend African-Americans from their Democrat oppressors in the post-Civil War...
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A Simple Proposal for Easing Unemployment →
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azspot:
Hiring a million people at home would cost roughly the same as what Congress set aside last month to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan despite an avalanche of recent criticism about the U.S. strategy there. For the estimated $1 million a year it costs to station one U.S. solider in Afghanistan beyond salary and equipment, the country could provide jobs for 33 workers...
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Kevin Keith An Innocent Man →
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minorjive:
Kevin Keith is an innocent man on Ohio’s death row, wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit based on faulty eyewitness identification – the leading cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. He has an alibi for the time of the crime supported by four witnesses. There is no forensic evidence that conclusively links him to the crime. Mr. Keith is...
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“… Proposition 8 was premised on the belief that same-sex couples simply are not...”
– Judge Vaughn Walker, overturning California’s Proposition 8 in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (via savingpaper)
Good God damn, he was NOT mincing words.
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I just snapped in Z formation after reading this.
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HELL FUCKIN’ YEA!
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“But ever since I learned just what the Nazis really were and how they really...”
– The best class I have ever taken: HIST143, the History of Fascism and Nazism (via azspot) (via notemily)
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Man Faces Up To 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping... →
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ouyangdan: msfeasance: azspot:
The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. In a trend that we’ve seen across the country, police have become increasingly hostile to bystanders recording their actions. You...
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Circulate This Graph Everywhere →
azspot:
It turns out that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will only hurt people earning more than $300,000 per year. And it appears as if keeping the Bush tax cuts in place would force people earning $60-150,000 to pay slightly more.
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