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The Friday Filibuster: Things Aren't Looking Good for Hillary + MORE

The Friday Filibuster: Things Aren’t Looking Good for Hillary

– TownHall.com

The Friday Filibuster: The one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about this week in politics. Closing Numbers63% of women view Trump…

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Media Matters staff: La Activista Dolores Huerta Destroza A La Iniciativa Libre En Univision Nuevo Mexico

– MediaMatters.org

De la edición del 20 de agosto del programa de KLUZ Noticiero Univisión Nuevo México:Previamente: Libre Initiative: Un Grupo Patrocinado Por Los Hermanos Koch Haciendo Creer Que Su Objetivo Es El Empoderamiento De Los Hispanos Director De Iniciativa Libre Hace Alegato Infundado Sobre Pesquisa De Emails De Clinton Libre Initiative Echoes Extreme Right-Wing Media Response To Supreme Court Health Care Decision

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Apparently Slut-Shaming Is Okay When You’re Defending Planned Parenthood

– Mediaite.com

  The preeminent feminist buzzword and cause célèbre of the past few years has been “slut-shaming.” The basic thrust is this: society engages in a sexist and one-sided denunciation of women who openly discuss or celebrate their sexuality, while men get a free pass. It would be an understatement to say that modern feminists’ denunciation of slut-shaming has reached obsession levels; a Google search shows that Jezebel has written 1,610 articles on slut-shaming, and Wonkette 946 since 2012…

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Glenn Beck Vows to Walk Middle East Religious Persecution Victims Across the U.S. Border Himself if Sufficient Funds Can Be Raised

– TheBlaze.com

Glenn Beck was furious on Friday when Johnnie Moore, author of “Defying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in its Place of Birth and in Your Own Backyard,” said that victims of Middle East persecution are being denied entry to the United States. Most of the victims being denied are Christian, Moore said, even though Christianity is at risk of being eradicated in the region…

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Gov. Scott Walker agrees that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is 'part of the problem' + MORE

John Kerr & Lis Power: 70 Awful Displays Of Sexism On Fox News

– MediaMatters.org

On the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, Media Matters looks back at Fox News’ many displays of sexism, ranging from hosts suggesting young women should not exercise civic duties like participating in jury duty because they ”don’t get it,” to Erick Erickson’s claim that “the male typically is the dominant role…

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8 ways redheads’ health is different than the rest

– RawStory.com

Natural-born redheads have a biology unlike any other. It’s the rarest hair color in the world, and with it comes a unique set of health consequences. Thanks to one genetic mutation and a few other mysterious causes, redheads have different pain tolerances, sexual encounters, and risks for disease…

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Gov. Scott Walker agrees that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is 'part of the problem'

– DailyKos.com

If there’s one thing that both Republicans and Democrats can reliably rally around, it’s hating Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Like baseball, watching him try to steer the unwieldy Senate in this or that direction is a tedious, seemingly unending endeavor punctuated by brief moments in which it looks like something might happen but almost never does; unlike baseball, in the Senate the players usually have more alcohol in them than the spectators…

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Five-year-old hypnotizes animals with stroke of her hand…

– DrudgeReport.com

Five-year-old hypnotizes animals with stroke of her hand…(Second column, 1st story, link)

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Scott Walker Is Running for President. Here's What You Should Know About Him. + MORE

Hannah Groch-Begley & Eric Hananoki: Conservative Media Love "Sexy" "Hero" Scott Walker

– MediaMatters.org

Right-wing media darling Scott Walker has announced he is running for president. Conservative pundits have lionized Walker as a “charismatic,” “sexy,” “genuine hero.”Scott Walker Announces 2016 Bid

Walker Announced He Is Running For President. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced that he is running for the Republican nomination for president on July 13…

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Cartoon: Sparky's inferno

– DailyKos.com

Check out my Kickstarter for 25 YEARS OF TOMORROW—a two volume, hardcover compilation of EVERY TMW CARTOON EVER!

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Scott Walker Is Running for President. Here's What You Should Know About Him.

– MotherJones.com

Gov. Scott Walker is set to announce his presidential candidacy on Monday in Waukesha, Wisconsin, joining a crammed filed of GOP hopefuls.

In a few short years, the two-term governor has rocketed from obscurity to become a Republican frontrunner thanks to his conservative—and often controversial—stewardship of Wisconsin…

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Walker Adviser: Easier to Start Conservative, Become Moderate ‘Later On’

– Mediaite.com

Congratulations on your official presidential announcement, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Now you get to spend part of your day explaining away something one of your advisers said. Speaking — wait for it — anonymously to National Journal’s Tim Alberta, a Walker adviser tried to calm fears the candidate was moving too far to the right in order to win the Iowa caucus by intimating that positions taken this early on are contingent…

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Jury Finds That Ex-Gay Therapy Is A Fraud + MORE

'We Need An Emancipation Proclamation' To Free Us 'From The Tyranny Of Sodomy'

– RightWingWatch.org

“No more rainbow flags, America!” declares anti-LGBT activist Linda Harvey, who offers up an unhinged rant in BarbWire today about why Americans should take down the LGBT rainbow flag along with the Confederate battle flag. Harvey, the head of the far-right group Mission America, writes that homosexuality is just as “evil” as slavery, adding that “‘LGBT’ lifestyles will ultimately be revealed to be a destructive blight on our nation…

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Analysis: SCOTUS holds that ACA text expressly provides for subsidies on federal exchange

– DailyKos.com

Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion in King v. Burwell, upholding subsidies on the ACA federal exchange.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Affordable Care Act provides for subsidies on the federal exchange. The opinion (PDF), authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Associate Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor, is relatively short and to the point…

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Timothy Johnson: NRA's Ted Nugent Praises Use Of The Word "Nigger"

– MediaMatters.org

National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent distorted recent comments President Obama made on the race issue in America to defend the use of the N-word including its racist use by former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman. In a June 24 column for conspiracy website WND, Nugent addressed President Obama’s reference to the word “nigger” on Marc Moran’s WTF podcast…

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Jury Finds That Ex-Gay Therapy Is A Fraud

– ThinkProgress.org

After three weeks of trial, a New Jersey jury reached a quick verdict in the case against JONAH, a Jewish ex-gay organization sued under the state’s consumer fraud laws. The jury unanimously found against JONAH on all counts, meaning it will have to pay upwards of $25,000 in damages to the clients and their families for undergoing ex-gay therapy…

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Officials Tried Using a Fake Orca Whale to Scare Off Annoying Sea Lions — Watch What Happened Instead + MORE

Obama didn't take page out of Eisenhower's book

– FreeRepublic.com

President Barack Obama may not like the title, since he has a thing about the Crusades, but he ought to give the book a read today, one day shy of the 71st anniversary of the Normandy invasion. He might learn something about how to fight and defeat evil, as in the ISIS evil, that has spread across the Middle East and that threatens U…

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100 Safest Cities in America

– FreeRepublic.com

http:www://safewise.com/safest-cities-America This site lists the 100 safest cities of over 10,000 in population for 2015. (sorry, don't know how to make this computer post the thread. perhaps someone could help me with that)

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Timothy Johnson: NRA Attacks Virginia Tech Shooting Survivors Who Advocate For Stronger Gun Laws

– MediaMatters.org

An article in the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) “official journal” attacked survivors of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech for using the tragedy to advocate for stronger gun laws. On April 16, 2007, a gunman at Virginia Tech opened fire in a dormitory and several classrooms, fatally shooting 32 people and wounding 17 others…

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Officials Tried Using a Fake Orca Whale to Scare Off Annoying Sea Lions — Watch What Happened Instead

– TheBlaze.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (TheBlaze/AP) — Officials of an Oregon port authority came up with an innovative idea to drive off annoying and damaging sea lions. They turned to a fake, motorized ocra whale, which they hoped would scare them from the local dock. Unfortunately, the whale was a little less intimidating than one would hope…

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Apartment Resident Given Ultimatum Over Israeli Flag in Window + MORE

Alexandrea Boguhn & Sophia Tesfaye: Immigrants Are More Dangerous Than ISIS And 10 Other Horrible Anti-Immigrant Media Moments From Ann Coulter

– MediaMatters.org

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter called immigrants to the United States a bigger threat to Americans than the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group during a recent interview with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos – hardly the first of Coulter’s offensive comments on immigration…

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CBS' Bob Schieffer is ready for retirement…

– DrudgeReport.com

CBS’ Bob Schieffer is ready for retirement…(Third column, 21st story, link)Related stories:San Diego newspaper lays off 1/3rd of workforce after sale…GAWKER staff to vote on union…

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Apartment Resident Given Ultimatum Over Israeli Flag in Window

– TheBlaze.com

A Jewish resident in a Vienna apartment building said he was forced to take down the Israeli flag he had displayed in his window this weekend after a neighbor apparently complained to the building management. Sebestyen Fiumei said he doesn’t know who made the complaint, but believes if he had been told to remove, for example, the rainbow flag associated with gay rights, there would have been outrage…

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ANALYSIS: Stunning Lack of Diversity at Hillary Clinton Campaign Events

– FreeRepublic.com

There is a stunning lack of racial diversity among the pre-screened “everyday Americans” at Hillary Clinton’s campaign events, a Free Beacon analysis found. Clinton plans to meet with minority women small business owners in South Carolina on Wednesday, but the roundtable events she has hosted since announcing for president on April 12 have been, for the most part, excruciatingly white…

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Maryland lawmakers take up police reform after Baltimore unrest + MORE

Danish radio station kills baby rabbit with bicycle pump

– RawStory.com

A Danish radio station on Tuesday defended the live killing of a baby rabbit with a bicycle pump on one of its shows, saying it wanted to highlight cruelty in the farming industry. “We didn’t do it for the sake of entertainment,” talk radio station Radio24syv wrote on Twitter….

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Maryland lawmakers take up police reform after Baltimore unrest

– RawStory.com

Baltimore rioting over the death of a black man from injuries in police custody is spurring Maryland lawmakers to take action on criminal justice reform after legislation stalled in the statehouse. Legislators hope that the death of Freddie Gray, 25, can galvanize the Democratic-controlled state…

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Media Matters staff: Fox's Scott Brown Worries That Scrutiny Has Made Police "Gun Shy"

– MediaMatters.org

From the May 26 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:Previously: Fox Contributor: Crime Increases When DOJ Investigates Local Police “War On Cops”: Fox News Abandons Its Catchphrase When Bike Gangs Threaten Police Fox Completely Distorts Obama’s Policy Proposals To Hype Alleged “War On Police” Fox Dismisses Role Of Police Brutality In Sparking Unrest In Baltimore

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Drought may mean Californians will be asked — to drink treated sewage!

– DrudgeReport.com

Drought may mean Californians will be asked — to drink treated sewage!(Third column, 12th story, link)

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The GOP Primary Will Be Bloody As Hell + MORE

Hillary Clinton makes first appearance in New Hampshire, calls GOP attacks about Clinton Foundation

– FreeRepublic.com

Hillary Clinton fired back Monday at questions about a potentially damaging new book — saying that slamming her seems to be the Republicans’ sole topic of conversation. The book, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by former George W…

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O'Malley gets bleeped on NPR…

– DrudgeReport.com

O’Malley gets bleeped on NPR…(Third column, 7th story, link)Related stories:SCOOBY DOES 92 MPH…Hillary refuses to say if she is taking Social Security…Roseanne: ‘Same old s—’…Fiorina to barnstorm Iowa…Walker strikes populist tone on immigration:

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The GOP Primary Will Be Bloody As Hell

– thedailybeast.com

The ex-Florida and Arkansas governors say: No intraparty attacks! But last time they had contested primaries, they saw things differently.

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Media Matters staff: On MSNBC, Media Matters ' David Brock Questions If The New York Times Vetted Anti-Clinton Smear Book Author

– MediaMatters.org

From the April 21 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe:Previously: On MSNBC’s Maddow, David Brock Highlights The New York Times Joining Fox News To Push Opposition Research From Anti-Clinton Smear Book Clinton Cash Author Peter Schweizer’s Long History Of Errors, Retractions, And Questionable Sourcing Fox News Is Trumpeting The Latest Anti-Clinton Smear Book “Bombshell” Fox’s Karl Rove Lauds Disreputable Author Of Clinton Smear Book: “He Has Got A Good Reputation As A Conscientious Researcher”

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