NY Woman Fired After Donating Kidney to Boss| Reuters

Would you ever donate a kidney to your boss?   Probably not, but Debbie Stevens of Long Island did, and now she's filed a discrimination complaint with state regulators. In what is being called the "kidney donor case," Stevens claims boss Jackie Brucia turned on her afte …

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Media Bias ? No, It's Right and Early

If the Sunday morning TV chat shows seem like a sea of Republican politicians and conservative spinners lately, it’s not your imagination.  While you might expect to see a lot of Republican candidates and their surrogates in the thick of a Republican primary contest,  …

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George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says - The Washington Post

Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting ofTrayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.

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Irish Catholic Church Probes Porn Slideshow - ABC News

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland said Monday it's investigating how a priest offering a presentation to parents on their children's upcoming Confessions instead ended up showing them a computer slideshow of gay porn. The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean …

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First Read - GOP lawmaker calls for tax on millionaires in symbolic break with party

A freshman Republican congressman broke Thursday with his party's leaders by calling for a surtax on millionaires, a symbolic break with his own party's united front against new taxes of any sort. Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford announced in his district today that he would introduc …

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'Game Change': Sarah Palin Is Still Alive And Dangerous

The professor says she has noticed a growing reluctance among her female students “to even consider” political involvement. They see many women politicians subjected to a double standard when it comes to family and clothing issues, she says.

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Pat Robertson Says Ganja Is The Lord's Fruit Loops

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview ….

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Republicans Use Israel In Dangerous Arms-For-Sale Game

Over the past half decade, the right-wing movements in many developed nations have been forced to pander to their most extreme religious ideologues, representing ever decreasing percentages of the populations of those nations.Today, it appears the Israeli Prime Minister is u …

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The GOP Is Now America's First Religious Party

"This country is in trouble and has to get back to the Christian values it was founded on," says Tracy McManamon, an insurance salesman. "We can't be afraid to talk about it. We have to speak up."

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U.S. News - Feds allege $279 million auto insurance fraud scheme in New York

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Atheists 'Coming Out' party in Washington

A scrappy coalition of atheists say they will make history on the Mall next month by pulling together what they say is the first nationwide celebration of secular values — what one of the organizers called a "Woodstock for non-belief."

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NBC Politics - New defense cuts threaten bases, shipyards

US Military spending has been used by politicians to get votes in local communities.  But we can no longer think of wasteful military spending as a positive for a 21st century economy.

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Philadelphia cardinal's death investigated – USATODAY.com

The child-molestation scandal in the Archdiocese of Philadelphiahas taken a mysterious new turn, with prosecutors asking a coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua to establish whether he died of natural causes.

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Panic as supplies of life-saving drug dwindle

The drug companies find Viagra for aging baby-boomers far more profitable than a life-saving leukemia drug for very young children

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Obama's Reported Compromise On Contraception Is Failing To Satisfy Conservative Critics | ThinkProgress

 While the details are still sketchy, early reports indicate that the modification may be similar on the so-called “Hawaii model,” where employers must include contraception in their employee insurance plans, but can invoke a refusal clause to exclude s …

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Obama's winning hand on religion - Religious Right - Salon.com

I recently was talking with a friend, whose 84-year-old mother, a lifelong and devoted Catholic, recently stopped going to Mass. She was fed up, my friend said, with the “anti-Obama” lectures she heard at church. 

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Ari Fleischer Admits He Personally Advised Komen CEO On Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress

Ari Fleischer was involved in Komen’s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood and is now involved in the damage control effort.

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President Obama's Pro-Choice Birth Control Decision Draws Praise From Religious Leaders

It should be clear that the "Religious Right" as we know it is now mainly the Catholic Church, the institution that is responsible for more child sex abuse cases in the civilized world than any group in history.

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MSNBC/Politico Bigots Call Florida Panhandle 'Cracker Counties' | Western Journalism.com

Was MSNBC wrong to classify the demographic of Northern Florida as anything but "Cracker Counties"?

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Pentagon Budget Set To Shrink Next Year

The Pentagon budget will shrink next year for the first time since 1998, the Obama administration said Thurs­day, in an attempt to chip away at the federal deficit while reorienting the armed forces toward Asia.

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US Supreme Court Rules Religious Law Above US Law

Early this month, the Supreme Court held (in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v.

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Whites, not Blacks, Collect Greatest Share of Public Aid Dollars

SAY the word "welfare" and immediately the image of the lazy Black wellare queen who breeds for profit surfaces in the minds of those who have come to believe the hideous stereotype.

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Condoleeza Rice Says Dick Cheney Told Her That She and Bush Were Going to Die - National - The Atlantic Wire

Dick Cheney is an evil obsessive compulsive who obviously has no problem with torture or death, if necessary.

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Lawyer: Cain accuser wants to talk but is barred by agreement - The Washington Post

Good-Bye Herman Cain! This will not be another Clarence Thomas styled "high tech lynching" sham.

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U.S. Predator drone fired on convoy outside Surt; proving the USA led this mission

Britain and France Clearly DID NOT lead this mission.It took a bold and smart President of the USA to pull this off. Now that the details are coming through, we can say with certainty the Republicans in our Congress are incompetent, intransigent, and uninformed on both world and …

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