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The Daily News nails it again: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/assault-weapons-ban-dropped-gun-package-article-1.1292862

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As Colorado’s governor signed a hard-won package of gun control measures Wednesday, officials across the state were reeling from the shooting death of Colorado’s prisons chief.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/us/director-of-colorado-prisons-fatally-shot-at-home.html

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Lane, who pleaded guilty last month to killing three students at an alternative high school in Chardon, Ohio, walked into the courtroom and took off a button shirt, revealing a white T-shirt with the word "killer" scrawled in pen.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/20/ohio-shooter-killer-shirt/2002377/

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"I live in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry."

-- Michelle Shocked, Yoshi's, San Francisco, March 17, 2013

http://www.pqmonthly.com/musician-michelle-shocked-rants-against-homosexuality-fans-promoters-respond-with-dramatic-backlash/13030

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Robert Dewey spent almost 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/us/prisoners-seek-restitution-for-wrongful-convictions.html?src=recg

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Lake Erie is sick.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/earth/algae-blooms-threaten-lake-erie.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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A woman who claims she was sexually abused by her parish priest as a child traveled to Rome to protest retired Cardinal Roger Mahony’s participation in the papal conclave.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/03/04/alleged-church-sex-abuse-victim-outraged-over-mahonys-inclusion-in-papal-conclave/

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The deformation of human skulls was part of an ancient ritual that took place 1,000 years ago. The deformation was achieved by binding a person’s head between two blocks of wood to apply pressure on the skull by wrapping the wood with bands. -- http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112754510/alien-like-skulls-unearthed-mexico-122712/

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Sanitation workers salvage dead pigs from the Hengliaojing Creek in Shanghai's suburban Songjiang district Sunday. The creek flows into the upper reach of the Huangpu River, a source of the city's drinking water. Photo: Yang Hui/GT -- http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/767158.shtml#.UT4XMxn-DpV

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Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s sprawling cheating case.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/03/09/harvard-university-administrators-secretly-searched-deans-email-accounts-hunting-for-media-leak/d5lYY8vXLyZQYWtTNGxWkL/story.html

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Even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense, for the animals are coming.

Ron Paul, October 1992, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ron-paul-and-the-racist-newsletters-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/21/gIQAKNiwBP_blog.html

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Any man can become the pope as long as they are willing to be ordained a priest, become a cardinal, and then be pope. The only real stipulation is that it cannot be a woman.

-- Father Thomas Reese, analyst for the National Catholic Reporter 

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I feel the time has come to bestow marriage equality to same-sex couples.

Meg Whitman, Hewlitt-Packard CEO, http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130226150031-71744402-why-i-support-civil-marriage-for-same-sex-couples?_mSplash=1&sessionid=Vm8x2nPIvzNxe0z4iyYN

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When your government won't tell you it won't do something, it is telling you it has the power to do it.

Rand Paul, filibustering appointment of John Brennan to the CIA, March 6, 2013, 5:37 PM

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Last year, President Obama accepted an award for government transparency. Meanwhile, his administration spent $10 billion classifying official secrets. It responds to fewer Freedom of Information Act requests, it routinely circumvents juridical appeals by invoking a 'state secrets privilege,' and it has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other administration in U.S. history.

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-fog-of-more/

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A FOIA analyst at the Secret Service, which is under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security, told Truthout Tuesday that despite the Justice Department dropping its case against [the late Aaron] Swartz, 'our investigation is still open and we cannot release any information on that subject.'

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14861-secret-service-refuses-truthouts-request-for-documents-on-aaron-swartz