A military veteran serving a sentence for rape said he’s been sexually assaulted more than 10 times by female guards and employees. Former Marine Lance Cpl. Shane Bardes was convicted of raping two women while stationed in Hawaii and sentenced to five years in prison, and he’s served three years in...
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Ex-Marine serving rape sentence says he’s been sexually assaulted by female prison workers
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Catholic bishop performs ‘exorcism’ with armed officers over Illinois same sex marriage
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki kept his promise on Wednesday and performed an “exorcism” on the state of Illinois after Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a bill legalizing same sex marriage. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Paprocki kicked off his exorcism service only 30 minutes...
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Oklahoma blocks spousal benefits to National Guard to avoid including same sex couples
Oklahoma’s governor ordered the state’s national guard to halt all spousal enrollment for benefits rather than allow same sex couples to receive the same benefits as heterosexual marriages. According to Think Progress, now all couples must apply for benefits at federal National Guard...
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London police rescue three women held captive in domestic slavery for 30 years
British police on Thursday rescued three women from a house in London where they are believed to have been held as slaves for at least 30 years. Scotland Yard police headquarters said the victims were a 69-year-old Malaysian, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton. The women were...
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Why Is Preventive Care So Anxiety-Inducing?
Not all preventive care is anxiety-inducing. But there’s two kinds of medical care that the hand-wringers who don’t understand science very well always denounce at the slightest provocation: Birth control, particularly hormonal birth control, and vaccinations. This came up again this...
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Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal: Republicans must shed image as ‘party of no’
Republican governors’ leader Bobby Jindal turned on his party’s national leadership on Wednesday, calling on the GOP to suggest alternative ideas for healthcare and immigration reform rather than simply defining itself as the “party of no”. Amid signs of a growing backlash...
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Potential 2016 contender Marco Rubio urges an interventionist foreign policy
Republican Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 White House contender, urges the projection of US global power in the name of liberty — an interventionist strategy at odds with isolationists in his party. Back home he spearheaded comprehensive immigration reform earlier this year, infuriating...
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Arizona teen says flying Confederate flag on his pickup led to hate crime at school
An Arizona teenager says a classmate may have targeted him in a hate crime and his school has violated his free speech rights over his display of a Confederate flag. Jacob Green, a junior at Millennium High School in Goodyear, Arizona, said he’d been driving a pickup for six months flying the Civil...
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Hate crimes charges after students fasten bike lock around black roommate’s neck and call him ‘Three-fifths’
Three students at San Jose State University have been charged with misdemeanor hate crimes and battery after being accused of tormenting a black roommate. University police announced on Wednesday that arrest warrants were being issued for 18-year-old freshmen students Colin Warren, Joseph...
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Gaza zoo blames Israel after two lion cubs die
Two lion cubs born in Gaza this week and named in honour of Hamas’ last major clash with Israel died on Thursday, a zoo official said. “The lions named Fajr and Sijil (Dawn and Clay in Arabic) died today due to a deterioration of their health at birth,” Shadi Hamad, supervisor of...
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Reporters accuse White House of preventing the public from ‘having an independent view’
White House reporters and photographers on Thursday accused top officials of deliberately blocking access to President Barack Obama and of substituting its own “visual press releases” for independent news coverage. In a letter to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the White House...
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Principal admits in email that school’s position is ‘indefensible’ in church-state fight
A Colorado school has cut its ties to an evangelical Christian charity organization after intervention by a national rights group. The American Humanist Association (AHA) told Raw Story that the group got involved in the matter at the request of a parent at the school who was concerned that school...
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Senate Democrats drop the ‘nuclear option’ on Republicans and limit filibusters
The US Senate took the potentially explosive step Thursday of changing its rules to allow executive and lower court nominees to be approved by a simple majority vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid invoked the move, known in Washington as the “nuclear option,” to end what he...
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House GOP unlikely to discipline coke-sniffing Rep. Trey Radel, but ethics watchdog files complaint
Despite a guilty plea on cocaine charges, Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) insists he won’t resign and will likely avoid disciplinary action from House Republicans. But an ethics watchdog filed a complaint against the Republican lawmaker, saying he should be expelled. An aide told Politico that House Speaker...
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Fox Business host: Social Security Disability turns men into ‘modern-day eunuchs’
Fox Business host Charles Payne recently told a group of conservatives that Social Security Disability Insurance was turning American men into “modern-day eunuchs.” Speaking to David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend 2013 last week, Payne opined that President Barack Obama had...
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Venus orbits the Sun inside huge ‘zodiacal cloud’ of space dust
Scientists have discovered that Venus circles the sun embedded within a huge band of dust that is 10-15 million kilometres high and stretches all the way around its orbit. The finding will help astronomers better understand the dust clouds within planetary systems so that they can be taken into...
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This is your brain on poverty: Sanders and Warren probe insidious consequences of being poor
While most Americans think of poverty in material terms, said the senate’s lone independent, its effects were more insidious and long-lasting. The U.S. Senate subcommittee on primary health and aging met Wednesday morning to discuss the effects of poverty and stress on children, communities and...
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‘Birther’ website: New violence charges against Zimmerman are liberal media plot
A writer for the website World Net Daily — a hub for “Birther” conspiracists and other anti-Obama true believers — has penned a column in defense of George Zimmerman, the gunman who fatally shot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in 2012. Right Wing Watch reported on a post by...
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School officials threatened to be ‘lined up and shot’ after Fox News ‘misreporting’
A school board member in South Dakota is calling on Fox News to apologize because he says an erroneous report led to threats that officials be “lined up and shot” over the Pledge of Allegiance. Sioux Falls School Board member Kent Alberty told KSFY that Fox News picked up the story...
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Lego-style crime mural becomes hit in Malaysia despite officials’ objections
A street mural that was whitewashed by authorities because it highlighted Malaysia’s crime problem has gone viral, with versions popping up across the country and earning their creator comparisons to UK graffiti artist Banksy. The original mural that appeared on a wall in the southern...
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