A federal judge ruled on Monday that a terminally ill woman will be allowed to marry her lesbian partner before Illinois same sex marriage law goes into effect on June 1 next year. Under U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin’s order, the Cook County clerk will have to issue the license to...
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Federal judge orders early same sex marriage license for dying Illinois woman
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Shopping mall Santa accused of pinching 18-year-old elf’s bottom
A shopping mall Santa from Massachusetts is accused of inappropriately touching one of the elves. Police said 62-year-old Herbert G. Jones, of Assonet, pinched the 18-year-old woman’s buttocks while she was working for a company that photographs children with the costumed Santa Claus performer. The...
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Virginia lawmaker: Negligent mental health provider is ‘responsible’ for son’s stabbing-suicide incident
In an email interview with his local newspaper, Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) said that he specifically holds the Rockbridge Community Service Board (CSB) — a local mental health agency — responsible for his son’s death. According to the Washington Post, Deeds told the Bath...
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GOP official runs for Virginia Senate after telling anti-Jewish joke at Cuccinelli event
A Republican official who called attention to himself earlier this year for telling an anti-Semtic joke at a campaign event for former gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli announced this week that he would be running for Virginia Senate. “So you know, I’m a Catholic, and one of the...
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Bill Ayers: Right-wing media convinced leftists that Obama was a secret leftist
Leftists in the United States were mistaken to view President Barack Obama as one of their own, according to education activist and former revolutionary Bill Ayers. During an appearance last Friday at D.C.’s legendary Politics and Prose bookstore, Ayers said he was well-acquainted with Obama....
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Texas woman will plead guilty to sending ricin letters to Obama and Bloomberg
The Texas woman who allegedly tried to frame her husband by sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said through her attorney that she intends to plead guilty in the case. According to the Associated Press, the attorney representing Shannon...
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Lebanon cannabis trade thriving in the shadow of Syrian war
Bekaa (Lebanon) (AFP) – Lebanese marijuana grower Abu Sami is practically rubbing his hands together with glee: the Syrian conflict has paralysed authorities at home and left the nearby border virtually uncontrolled. “This year, the harvest was abundant, and the authorities have left us...
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Glenn Greenwald: Groups who question his ties to CAIR are helping government erode freedom
Glenn Greenwald, the civil rights attorney and journalist who helped reveal evidence that the U.S. was spying on its citizens and allies, said it’s crucial to safeguard the civil liberties of American Muslims to ensure the rights of all Americans. Greenwald, who published a series of articles based...
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Bill Donohue calls to fire Maher over Dan Savage’s rant on ‘kiddie-f*cking priests’
Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Monday demanded that HBO cancel Real Time with Bill Maher after the late night comedian invited on a gay guest who blasted priests who sexually abuse children. On his Friday night show, Maher pointed out to sex columnist Dan Savage that a Catholic Bishop...
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Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down economics to shreds in new policy statement
In case there was any doubt left, Pope Francis made it clear that he shares little in common with U.S. conservatives. The pontiff released his Evangelii Gadium, or Joy of the Gospel, attacking capitalism as a form of tyranny and calling on church and political leaders to address the needs of the...
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Rare whooping cranes in U.S. face enemies large and small
Jane Chandler raises the rarest cranes in the world. For them to have a chance at surviving in the wild, the young birds must never see her face, hear her speak, or know her to be a human being. If they did, these whooping cranes, named for their characteristic calls, would come to think of...
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Former Pennsylvania GOP official charged for drugging and raping woman multiple times
A former chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee in Pennsylvania who resigned last week after being accused of sexual assault was arrested on Tuesday on 19 counts, including rape and drug charges. Sources told several news outlets last week that Robert Kerns had gotten drunk and...
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Right-wing plan to overturn California transgender student rights bill will most likely fail
A California coalition of anti-LGBT groups is seeing its hopes dashed in the fight to repeal a rights bill for transgender students. According to the Washington Blade, the so-called Privacy for All Students Coalition initiative claims it has collected the required number of signatures to force a...
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Anthony Kennedy to decide whether you get your slut pills or not
The US Supreme Court, also known as John Roberts & Associates LLC, has agreed to look into the case of the persecuted Christians (are there any other kind?) at Hobby Lobby which is a chain of craft stores specializing in scrapbooking and other pursuits for people who are just waiting for a...
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Pope Francis calls for female inclusion but rejects ‘progressive’ reforms to abortion doctrine
Pope Francis believes that women have been marginalized in the Catholic Church, but remains opposed to the ordination of women and reforms to the Church’s teachings on abortion. In his Evangelii Gaudium, translated into English as The Joy of the Gospel, Francis rejected the idea of female...
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Obama holds fundraiser at Magic Johnson’s home in Los Angeles
President Barack Obama was in Los Angeles Monday for private fundraisers, including one at basketball star Magic Johnson’s home, rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars like Diane Keaton and Tom Hanks. The president, on a three-day West Coast tour largely dedicated to campaign fundraising, was...
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U.S. flies B-52 bombers over disputed ‘air defense zone’ in China
Two US B-52 bombers flew over a disputed area of the East China Sea without notifying Beijing, despite China’s bid to create an expanded “air defense zone,” US officials said Tuesday. The unarmed aircraft took off from Guam on Monday and the flight was previously scheduled as part...
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Why the stealthy seahorse wins by a head
Close examination of the seahorse has shown that the delicate little fish is a master of stealth, using streamlined features in its head to sneak up on its prey, scientists reported on Tuesday. At first glance, the seahorse is an unlikely candidate for hunter of the year. Swimming vertically, its...
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Report: Alec Baldwin fired by MSNBC
Alec Baldwin will no longer be hosting his own show at MSNBC after accusations that he hurled antigay slurs at a paparazzo outside his New York City Home. According to PageSix.com, sources at the network say that Baldwin’s show has been canceled, in spite of the fact that Baldwin issued a...
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The Hobby Lobby Lawsuit Is A Trojan Horse
You have to hand to right wing pundits. They kick ass at the bait-and-switch, particularly with their own people. They knew that throwing a major fit over the contraception mandate, no matter how much it’s dressed up in “religious freedom” as an excuse, would be understood by...
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