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Should it be legal to protest at funerals?

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on the outer limits of free-speech protection for public protests and to rule on whether a dead soldier's family can sue fringe religious protesters who picketed near their son's funeral with signs that said " [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Are black women targeted for abortions to keep population down?

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the campaign ostensibly calls attention to the fact that black women have a disproportionately high number of abortions. But there is a deeper, more disturbing claim at work as well. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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One senator blocks unemployment extension, pissing off everyone

Hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers faced an end to their jobless benefits Monday, and the federal government furloughed about 2,000 employees without pay, as a result of Bunning's efforts to block legislation that would fund $10 billion in fe [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Performance artist marries total stranger to make a point

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It's not hard to get married in Florida. Just ask Brian Feldman and Hannah Miller, two almost-strangers who were wed Friday, two days before Valentine's Day, to make a political point. Before a crowd of 30-some onlookers, Feldman and Miller took th [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress

Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The counter anti-gay protest

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Most of us are familiar with Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist "Church" from their hate-filled protests of funerals and other occasions around the US. Often times counter-protesters will show up and try and drown out their disgusting rhetoric and h [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Facebook group 'I'm With Coco' plans rally outside NBC Tower

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Now, courtesy of Mitchell's social networking, O'Brien's biggest Chicago supporters will hold a rally at 4:30 p.m. Monday on NBC's Michigan Avenue doorstep to deliver a message to the network. "NBC, I think, has already made their mind up," said Mi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Witnesses Say Iranian Security Forces Kill Protesters

Iranian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital Sunday, killing at least four people in the fiercest clashes in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Fairfax woman wages war against 'tacky' roadside signs

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Outraged over the bumper crop of ads that spring up along Fairfax County roads, Verrier dodges traffic and angry merchants in a one-woman fight against clutter, filling her car's trunk to overflowing with signs hawking everything from sushi bars to ma [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Man Arrested For Throwing Tomato At Sarah Palin

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Officers say two of their own were hit by tomato fragments instead, after the tomato hit the stage about 10 feet from Palin. People on the second level balcony, where the tomato was thrown from, helped police apprehend the man accused of throwing it.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Newspapers unite on climate change

Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage ou [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Group continues to fight for Confederate license plate-your take?

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The Sons of Confederate Veterans' fight for its specialty license plate rages on in federal court. It won a legal battle this week when U.S. District Judge John Antoon II denied the state's effort to toss the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this y [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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