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Nine-Year-Old Josef Miles Stages Counter-Protest Against Westboro Baptist Church Protesters
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:38 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Nine-year-old Josef Miles and his mother, Patty Akrouche, were walking around the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kan., on Saturday when they saw a group of Westboro Baptist Church protesters armed with signs. The Church is infamous for using pickets with phrases like "G …
Why do conservatives hate freedom?
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 12:52 PM EDT (Salon.com)
Why do conservatives hate freedom? The question may be startling. After all, don’t conservatives claim they are protecting liberty in America against liberal statism, which they compare to communism or fascism? But the conservative idea of “freedom” is a very …
Germans Can't Fathom US Aversion to Obama's Healthcare Reform - Spiegel
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 8:57 PM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
In Germany, people are baffled by how hostile a country as religious as the United States can be to the principle of mandatory healthcare insurance. Not even conservatives question the system, which businesspeople say gives Europe's largest economy a competitive advantage.
Size Does Matter
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 7:18 PM EDT ()
I just finished reading The Female Brain (Dr. Louann Brizendine MD) and learned some fascinating facts about the neurochemical make-up of women and how it impacts our behavior. Here are some interesting nuggets I came away with: 1. The neurochemical make-up of men dictates whe …
The Bank Wanted To Take Almost Everything This Woman Had | MoveOn.Org
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 5:15 PM EDT (MoveOn)
If you have already paid in more than your house is worth, would you keep on paying the mortgage? Hard to justify when the bank wants almost 4 times what the house is currently worth.
Stupor Bowl fairy tale
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:43 PM EDT (Cate Montana)
"Taking the opportunity during one of those $116,667 per second commercials to pick up empty beer cans and replenish the snacks, Janet grabbed a can that had something stuck to the bottom—a UNICEF flyer she’d thrown away that someone had fished out of the trash to …
Why Obama protects Wall Street
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:00 PM EDT (Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org)
Of all the ignominious actions of the Obama administration, the steadfast, systematic shielding of Wall Street from criminal liability is probably the most corrupt in the traditional sense of that word. In Newsweek this week, Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer have an excelle …
Jerry White campaigns on Detroit campus
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 3:36 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)
White spoke to students and campus workers on the need to build an independent party of the working class as an alternative to both capitalist parties. He introduced himself to passersby as the socialist candidate for US president and warned that Obama’s putting forwar …
Obama backs gay marriage
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 3:26 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)
Obama’s announcement Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage has been quickly elevated by the American liberal establishment and the media into a watershed moment in his presidency. The president announced on ABC News that, “for me personally, it is importa …
Amid mass unemployment, corporate profits surge
Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 3:10 PM EDT (World Socialist Web Site)
Amid deepening poverty and unemployment for masses of American working people, the largest US corporations once again posted record profits last year. Fortune magazine released its ranking of the 500 biggest US corporations Monday, which showed that they received a record- …
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