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New Jersey tanning mom denies charges of child endangerment
Wed May 2, 2012
- "these Jersey people"? Did you really say that? Do you really confuse Reality TV with reality and assume one woman with serious issues represents "Jersey people"?
New Jersey tanning mom denies charges of child endangerment
Wed May 2, 2012
- Wow, that mother needs serious help. She is clearly addicted to tanning. She looks about 74 not 44. Is there a word for the tanning equivalent of anorexia because this woman is clearly killing herself based on a warped self-image.
Meet the 28 Lawmakers Who Have Quit ALEC This Month | The Nation
Fri Apr 27, 2012
- I have a feeling this group isn't sorry they were part of ALEC. They are just sorry they got caught. Don't think these guys have learned anything or are really going anywhere. The name will just be changed to protect the guilty.
Who will be the Third Party Candidate of the 99%?
Thu Apr 26, 2012
- If the 99% wants a few more members of the SCOTUS to be conservative, they want unions destroyed, women's reproductive rights even more curtailed, food stamps, Medicaid, and health reform damaged or eliminated, environmental regulations thrown out the window, unlimited drilling and fracking, piles …
American Nuns Reject Vatican’s Orders – Say They Are Not Going To Stop ‘Caring For The Least Among Us’ | Addicting Info
Sun Apr 22, 2012
- You go, girls!
Catholic nuns group 'stunned' by Vatican scolding for 'radical feminist' ideas
Fri Apr 20, 2012
- Just another example of what the Catholic Church sees and what it does not.
Cola habit behind death of 30-year-old New Zealand woman?
Fri Apr 20, 2012
- "Stay-at-home 30 year old mother of EIGHT" says it all. No need to blame Coca-Cola.
Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits
Sun Apr 15, 2012
- This is the same Mitt that blames the Democrats for trying to "divide the country"and starting a "class war" (which we know was actually started by Reagan 30 years ago) and here he is clearly dividing mothers into two groups. No, not "working moms vs.
Nearly 900 students wrongly told they got into UCLA
Wed Apr 11, 2012
- Here's the deal, universities - you put kids through ridiculous hoops and emotional stress just to apply to your prestigious universities. You charge them money to do so.
Chris Christie: Nation of couch potatoes
Wed Apr 11, 2012
- Great Headline "Chris Christie [=] Nation of couch potatoes" That explains it.

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ALEC's Minions Call for the Waaambulance
Source: Firedoglake
The ALEC Empire is striking back. Check outthis:
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Paul Krugman Rips 'Centrist' Commentators In New York Times Column
Source: The Huffington Post
NEW YORK -- New York Times columnist Paul Krugman didn't name names in Monday's column calling out "centrist" defenders of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan, but signs point to two fellow Times writers: David Brooks and James Stewart. In "The Gullible Center," Krugman knocked those …
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Some of Christie's biggest bills match model legislation from D.C. group called ALEC | NJ.com
Source: NJ.com
Let’s say you’re a state lawmaker, passionate about charter schools, and you want to turn this passion into laws that create social change. What you need are bills. And you want them fast — ready-made, just add water, written in language that can withstand par …
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The Gated Community Mentality - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times
No matter the label, the product is the same: self-contained, conservative and overzealous in its demands for “safety.” Gated communities churn a vicious cycle by attracting like-minded residents who seek shelter from outsiders and whose physical seclusion then wors …
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Who's Minding the Children?: Educational Neglect and the Homeschool Movement | | AlterNet
Source: AlterNet.org
As for herself, when she completed her schooling, she says her parents did not allow her to obtain her GED as proof of high school graduation. Their reason? “The girls weren’t allowed to get a GED because we were told we wouldn’t need it. It would open up oppo …
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Some of Christie's biggest bills match model legislation from D.C. group called ALEC | NJ.com

Seeded on Sun Apr 1, 2012 8:36 AM EDT (NJ.com)

Let’s say you’re a state lawmaker, passionate about charter schools, and you want to turn this passion into laws that create social change. What you need are bills. And you want them fast — ready-made, just add water, written in language that can withstand par …

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The Gated Community Mentality - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)

No matter the label, the product is the same: self-contained, conservative and overzealous in its demands for “safety.” Gated communities churn a vicious cycle by attracting like-minded residents who seek shelter from outsiders and whose physical seclusion then wors …

politics, privatization, gun-laws, vigilante, stand-your-ground, trayvon-martin, george-zimmerman

ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort | Truthout

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:01 PM EST (Truthout - All Articles)

Today, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation will head out to an "island" resort on the coast of Florida to a unique "education academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). There will be no students or teachers.

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Bain Capital tied to bankruptcy, closing of KC steel plant - KansasCity.com

Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 9:16 AM EST (The Kansas City Star)

Bain Capital, a company once operated by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was involved in the 2001 bankruptcy and closing of one of Kansas City’s oldest manufacturing plants.

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'Pity The Billionaire': The Right's Unlikely Comeback : NPR

Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 9:06 AM EST (NPR)

Frank, whose previous books include What's the Matter with Kansas?, writes that the recent revival of the right is just as extraordinary as "if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear power plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster." "Before 2009," Fra …

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Mitt Romney and 'America the Beautiful': When Reach Exceeds Grasp - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Jan 4, 2012 8:52 PM EST (The New York Times)

If, over time, this turns out to be his rebuttal to the president’s new campaign theme of reducing economic inequality, he will have to do better than “America the Beautiful,” because that is not at all what the song was originally about.

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Drafting My Fantasy Picks & Tackling Nobel Trends : NPR

Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 9:24 AM EDT (NPR)

On Monday, me and some dudes are gonna tailgate outside the Kellogg School of Management before the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is announced. You should totally come. It's gonna be ill. My pick to click this year is N. Gregory Mankiw.

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It's starting to look like the tea party's in the bag | NJ.com

Seeded on Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:05 PM EDT (NJ.com)

...caused the tea partiers to boil over, particularly Gene Hoyas, a former Lonegan supporter who used to show up at rallies wearing a Revolutionary War outfit and going by the name “Manly Rash.” He’s now a blogger allied with the Bayshore crowd.

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Fears of far-right rise in crisis-hit Greece - CTV News

Seeded on Tue Aug 2, 2011 1:01 PM EDT (CTV News)

They descended by the hundreds -- black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece's far-right extremists. In Greece, alarm is rising that the twin …

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Opinion: Debt ceiling rhetoric by GOP misleads and endangers the nation | NJ.com

Seeded on Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:00 AM EDT (NJ.com)

...strategy of manipulating people by inculcating them with “invalid truths” perfectly mirrors the rhetoric of congressional Republicans, who are at the center of the ongoing press to neither raise the national debt ceiling nor increase taxes on the wealthiest Americ …

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The Worst Time to Slow the Economy - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:09 AM EDT (The New York Times)

There has never been any evidence that the federal debt is primarily responsible for the persistent joblessness that began with the 2008 recession.

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Casey Anthony Trial Proves a Tourist Draw - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:49 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Never mind Walt Disney World or the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Ms.

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Is The End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough : NPR

Seeded on Fri May 13, 2011 12:26 PM EDT (NPR)

On May 21, "starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth," he says.

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Trump Airlines - Top 10 Donald Trump Failures - TIME

Seeded on Mon May 2, 2011 7:57 AM EDT (TIME)

Donald Trump is very proud of himself for forcing President Obama to release his birth certificate, ending the debate over whether he was legally fit to lead the country. But not everything the Donald has put his name behind has succeeded.

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Trump's Son-In-Law (Who Is NOT Obama) Bought His Way Into Harvard

Seeded on Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:21 AM EDT (Wonkette » top)

While Donald Trump’s team of gumshoes are now travelling the globe trying to find evidence of how President Obama got into Harvard Law School even thoughhe is one of the blacks, it turns out his very own son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is one of those ri …

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What Have the Poor Ever Done for Us?

Seeded on Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:58 AM EDT (The Pragmatic Progressive)

So what have the poor done for us? Why should they have any share of the pie?

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NJ Move on Health Plan May Cost Towns But Help Power Broker

Seeded on Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:51 PM EDT (The New York Times)

"Mr. Sweeney, a Democrat from Gloucester County, is a close ally and a childhood friend of George E. Norcross 3rd, perhaps the most influential Democratic boss in New Jersey. Mr.

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Questions Raised About Charter Schools Performance

Seeded on Fri Apr 1, 2011 2:07 PM EDT (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

A new study of the nonprofit charter-school chain KIPP, which has won support from some of the country's leading philanthropists, contends the organization's strong academic results are based in part on selective admissions and low retention of poorly performing students....

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Equality, the True Soul Food

Seeded on Sun Jan 2, 2011 9:05 AM EST (The New York Times)

"There's growing evidence that the toll of our stunning inequality is not just economic but also is a melancholy of the soul. The upshot appears to be high rates of violent crime, high narcotics use, high teenage birthrates and even high rates of heart disease...

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Liberal Washington Group Launches Campaign Criticizing Christie's Whereabouts

Seeded on Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:37 PM EST (NJ.com)

"The "Where in the World is Gov.

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Reality Check

Seeded on Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

At a time of nearly 10 percent unemployment in America, we have the Israelis and the Palestinians sitting over there with their arms folded, waiting for more U.S. assurances or money to persuade them to do what is manifestly in their own interest: negotiate a two-state deal.

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Justice Stevens and the Death Penalty

Seeded on Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:28 AM EST (The New York Times)

In the current "New York Review of Books," the retired Justice John Paul Stevens makes a compelling argument for abolishing the death penalty.

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Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives

Seeded on Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:17 AM EST (The New York Times)

Drawn from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the bankers form a powerful committee that helps oversee trading in derivatives, instruments which, like insurance, are used to hedge risk.

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