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"Embrace sleeping on the floor," speaker tells Stockton grads
The Press of Atlantic City, Pleasantville, N.J.Follow your passion. Live your life. And think about sleeping on the floor. Speakers at the 2013 commencement of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey encouraged students to boldly venture into the next chapter of their life. The school's record...Tags: Students, Fiction, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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Lawmakers, economists spar over 'wasteful' US mortgage tax break
ReutersBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The popular U.S. tax deduction for mortgage interest is wasteful and does little to spur home ownership, economists from across the political spectrum said at a congressional hearing on Thursday, but many...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, Services and Shopping, U.S. Congress, Government
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Murder, Ku Klux Klan, Prisons
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Times In-Depth: Kelly is comfortable in D.C. representing his district
Erie Times-News, Pa.U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly stepped outside St. Peter's Catholic Church, three blocks from the Capitol, after an early morning service and enthusiastically called out to House Speaker John Boehner. "Speaker!" he shouted. One of the most powerful figures in...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Fox News Channel (tv network), Local Elections
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Body of openly gay mayoral candidate found in Mississippi
A person of interest is being held in the death of an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., officials said on Thursday. The person being held has not been charged, Will Rooker, a spokesman for the Coahoma County sheriff’s...
Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Espy, Politics, Elections
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Rush to the defense? Not so fast
Dear David from Georgia: I want to thank you for the email you sent last week. It made me laugh out loud. It seems you were unhappy I took a shot at Rush Limbaugh a few days back. Limbaugh had argued that John Lewis might have avoided having his skull...
Tags: Human Rights, Satellite and Cable Service, Hospitals and Clinics, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Health and Medical Professionals
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Minority Groups, Crime, Law and Justice, African-American History Month, Justice and Rights, Shootings
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Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, African-American History Month, Justice and Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Shootings
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Response to those rewriting black history: No
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, African-American History Month, Justice and Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Shootings
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Column: Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. “If a lot of African-Americans back in the ’60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?” he said recently on his...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Henry Ford, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Disarm the filibuster
On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster. Article 1, Section 6 of the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, DREAM Act, Jeff Merkley, Harry Reid, Keith Ellison
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Liberal obsession with race is growing old
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Ku Klux Klan, Jim DeMint, Tim Scott
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