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If I Were a Middle-Aged White Guy

Seeded on Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:01 PM EST (The Atlantic Wire)

If I were a middle-aged white guy, I would lease a nice car. Having a nice car makes a nice impression on others. And I would keep the car pristine. Whenever I parked outside Walgreen's or Wal-Mart, I would straddle the painted white line and take up two spaces.

white, middle-aged, middle-aged-white-guy

Feds detail pattern of discrimination by Arpaio

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:29 PM EST (The Arizona Republic)

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday morning accused the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office of racial profiling in traffic stops and immigration operations and discriminating against Spanish speakers in the county jails. Assistant Attorney General Thomas E.

illegal-immigrants, us-news, maricopa-county, illegal-immigration, arpaio, joe-arpaio, undocumented-alients

ABC tries to fix its Sunday mess

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:14 AM EST ()

ABC News is doing its best to put a pleasant gloss on the fact that its Sunday morning anchor has been a flop. No one doubts that Christiane Amanpour is an aggressive and talented globe-trotting correspondent.

entertainment, television, this-week, stephanopoulos, meet-the-press, face-the-nation, zmanpour

Village revolts over inequities of Chinese life

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:00 AM EST (The New York Times)

A long-running dispute between farmers and local officials in southern China exploded into open rebellion this week after villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with homemade weapons, residents said. The conflict in Wukan, a coa …

china, world-news, inequity, chinese-peasants

Whose Drug War?

Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:21 AM EST (New Yorker)

The “war” is going poorly. Mexico’s murder rate, which had fallen by fifty percent between 1992 and Calderón’s inauguration, has about tripled since then.

mexico, drugs, politics, guns, drug-war, assault-weapons, mexican-violence, narco-deaths

Dissident Says China Is Seeking $2.4 Million in Back Taxes

Seeded on Tue Nov 1, 2011 8:46 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist whose secret detention earlier this year stirred an international outcry, has been given two weeks to pay $2.4 million in back taxes and penalties, he said Tuesday. Mr.

human-rights, china, dissidents, world-news

More undocumented immigrants deported for traffic offenses

Seeded on Sat Oct 29, 2011 6:11 PM EDT (Welcome to StarNet)

The number of illegal immigrants deported for commiting traffic violations was the highest last fiscal year than at any time in the past 11 years, national figures show. Some 44,000 people were deported from the United States after being convicted of traffic offenses during th …

immigrants, politics, border-issues, illegal-immigration, undocumented-aliens, sb1070

The 1930s Sure Sound Familiar

Seeded on Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:57 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Not long ago, someone suggested that I read “Since Yesterday,” a book by Frederick Lewis Allen, a popular historian of the 1930s and 1940s.

economy, politics, great-depression, depression, recession, fdr, great-recession, government-involvement

Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan Has No Chance of Passing

Seeded on Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:49 AM EDT (The Daily Beast)

Herman Cain’s much-touted 9-9-9 plan, which is fueling his surge to frontrunner status, is a radical departure that would generate plenty of problems, from slashing federal revenue to making it more expensive for the poor to buy everyday goods. That, at least, is what ma …

politics

Arizona school calls slogan on breast-cancer T-shirts inappropriate

Seeded on Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:36 AM EDT (The Arizona Republic)

Gilbert High School has banned a cheerleading squad trying to raise money for breast-cancer research from wearing their pink shirts because the administration contends they carry an objectionable slogan. The shirts, which say "Gilbert cheer" on the front and "Feel for lumps, s …

schools, education, students, breast-cancer

Professor's Response to a Stutterer - Don't Speak

Seeded on Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:51 AM EDT (The New York Times)

RANDOLPH, N.J. — As his history class at the County College of Morris here discussed exploration of the New World, Philip Garber Jr.

college, education, classrooms, stutter, stuttering, class-disruptions

Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Propaganda

Seeded on Thu Oct 6, 2011 8:04 AM EDT (The New York Times)

DEFENDERS of “crisis pregnancy centers” are converging on Capitol Hill this week to lobby for increased support from the government, brandishing not picket signs, but babies. The centers portray themselves as nonpartisan health and counseling clinics, but in fact t …

women, abortion, politics, choice, pregnancy, planned-parenthood, right-to-life, crisis-pregnancy

'Nobody in this country got rich on his own. Nobody.'

Seeded on Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:07 AM EDT (CBS News)

An August video of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail is heating up on the internet, and some commentators are pointing to the clip - in which Warren makes a case for progressive economic policies - as evidence that the newly minted Democratic …

economy, politics, middle-class, class-warfare, senate-races, social-contract, elizabeth-warren

Republicans rewriting state election laws in ways that could hurt Democrat - The Washington Post

Seeded on Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:32 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

Looking to capitalize on their historic gains last year, Republican lawmakers in several states are rewriting their election laws in ways that could make it more difficult for Democrats to win. They have curbed early voting, rolled back voting rights for ex-felons and passed s …

elections, democrats, politics, gop, republicans, voting, voter-supression, voting-rules

Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Died Sick and Uninsured,

Seeded on Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:52 AM EDT (New York Magazine)

While you wouldn't know it from his answer, Blizter's hypothetical probably hit close to home for Paul, whose campaign manager Kent Snyder died young of pneumonia — without insurance — in 2008. He was just 49 years old when he died of complications from the virus o …

insurance, health, health-insurance, libertarian, ron-paul, obamacare

Does America Need Manufacturing?

Seeded on Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:55 PM EDT (The New York Times)

In 2009, the U.S. made less than 2 percent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries. By 2015, the Department of Energy projects that, thanks mostly to the government’s recent largess, the United States will have the capacity to produce 40 percent of them.

economy, jobs, employment, manufacturing, globalization, lithium-ion-batteries

China's Debt Problems Are Worse Than America's

Seeded on Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:26 PM EDT (The Daily Beast)

China may own $1.2 trillion in U.S. Treasury obligations, but from the get-go, Biden should have eschewed playing defense and gone on the offensive.

china, debt, world-news, biden, national-debt, china-us-relations

Corn subsidies shuck taxpayers

Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:08 AM EDT

“China’s need for corn—which forms the basis of sweeteners, starch and alcohol as well as feed for livestock—was on stark display in July when the nation ordered 21 million bushels of U.S. corn in one hit, more than the U.S.

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china, agriculture, farming, farms, us-news, farm-subsidies, federal-spending, federal-debt, bloated-government, farm-su

Rick Perry's immigration problem

Seeded on Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:46 AM EDT (The Washington Times)

Perry has an immigration problem. In 2001, Perry signed into law the very first Texas “Dream ACT.” It allowed the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at any Texas university, as long as they graduated from a Texas high school. Rick Perry defended t …

immigration, politics, gop, republicans, perry, rick-perry, illegal-immigration, tea-party, undocumented-alients

Perry's Vulnerabilities With the Right

Seeded on Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:01 AM EDT (The National Journal)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has taken the Republican presidential field by storm since declaring his candidacy on Saturday, winning widespread praise for his outspoken conservative positions.

texas, politics, gop, republicans, perry, rick-perry, tea-party, 2012-election

Another guy who wants to kill Government

Seeded on Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:33 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

The most striking line of the 2012 presidential campaign so far has come from Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

politics, gop, republicans, perry, federal-government

Bachmann: Can she tell the truth?

Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:43 PM EDT

On "Meet the Press" this morning, Rep.

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politics, obama, meet-the-press, bachmann, 2012-election, political-claims

Rick Perry: Pastor, Prophet... President?

Seeded on Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:47 PM EDT (The Texas Observer)

As he took the stage for his sermon, Rick Perry appeared positively beatific in the glow of 30,000 primed for his appearance at The Response. Up until the eve of the event, Perry had played coy about his role.

texas, politics, gop, republicans, evangelicals, rick-perry, tea-party, the-response

In Poll, Conflicting Signals Over Role of Government - Real Time Economics - WSJ

Seeded on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:23 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds something for Democrats and Republicans to point to in defense of their economic messages and policies. On the one hand, 51% of Americans now say government should do more to solve problems and help meet the needs of people, while 46 …

congress, economy, politics, president, government, obama, trust, civics, recession

Vile thugs hurl brick in four-year-old girl's face

Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:15 AM EDT (the Mail online)

The picture [with the article] shows the horrific injuries Jersey-Lou Perry suffered after thugs threw a brick at her head. The four-year-old was left with a swollen, bloodied face and broken nose in the disgusting attack in Grimsby.

violence, children, england, uk

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