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• Pregnant Woman With Child in the Car Tased Three Times After Being Pulled Over for Speeding

  Source: AlterNet.org

  What is it with cops and tasers? Why do so many of them seem compelled to use them in highly inappropriate ways? "Highly inappropriate" is about the only way to describe what happened to Malaika Brooks, who was seven months pregnant and driving her kid to school one day in 2004 …

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• The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You - A super-rich venture capitalist tells the truth about "job-creation" and the importance of the middle class

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  It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies.  Consider this one. If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.   This idea is an article of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats and has shaped much of  …

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• How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying

  Source: The Washington Post

  Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It’s a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They  …

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• God sent Shelby Davenport

  My appreciation for the woman we all know as Shelby Davenport is a permanent stamp upon my brain. She took time from her special Olympics work and life to reach out to me now during the aftermath of my son James' recent death. She had the connections I needed to find to set up a  …

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• Romney refuses to mention Bush’s name after endorsement | The Raw Story

  Source: Raw Story

  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is refusing to even utter George W. Bush’s name after the former president endorsed him in an elevator on Tuesday.

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