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That’s right I’m putting the whole state of Arizona on blast for the simple fact that lawmakers, in the desert state, passed an immigration law that will essentially require anyone who is or looks like an immigrant to carry their proof of residency at all times, the Arizona House voted for a provision that would […]

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Dorothy Height, a longtime leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and the chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 98. Trained as a social worker, Height began her career as an advocate for civil rights and gender equality during the 1930s, working to prevent lynching, desegregate […]

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Dorothy Height, a longtime leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and the chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 98. Trained as a social worker, Height began her career as an advocate for civil rights and gender equality during the 1930s, working to prevent lynching, desegregate […]

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I still believe we should be afraid of April 19th because after watching “The McVeigh Tapes” covered on MSNBC there is reason to believe that another Tim McVeigh is out there. It’s scary to believe that 15 years after the Oklahoma City bombings the same rhetoric and the same ideology is still preached and practiced. […]

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I still believe we should be afraid of April 19th because after watching “The McVeigh Tapes” covered on MSNBC there is reason to believe that another Tim McVeigh is out there. It’s scary to believe that 15 years after the Oklahoma City bombings the same rhetoric and the same ideology is still preached and practiced. […]

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Yet another wave of shootings swept across Chicago on Thursday night and Friday morning, leaving seven people dead and 15 wounded. The carnage pushed the city’s murder toll to 97 so far this year, up from 81 by this date last year. This latest round of bloodshed was not as extensive as that two weeks […]

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Yet another wave of shootings swept across Chicago on Thursday night and Friday morning, leaving seven people dead and 15 wounded. The carnage pushed the city’s murder toll to 97 so far this year, up from 81 by this date last year. This latest round of bloodshed was not as extensive as that two weeks […]

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Congressman Steve King (R-IA) grabbed Think Progress’ Victor Zapanta Thursday at a tax day tea party rally and argued with the cameraman, after being asked to defend comments he made in February that seemed to justify a Texas man’s suicide attack on the IRS. Soon after Joe Stack, an angry software programmer, flew a plane […]

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Congressman Steve King (R-IA) grabbed Think Progress’ Victor Zapanta Thursday at a tax day tea party rally and argued with the cameraman, after being asked to defend comments he made in February that seemed to justify a Texas man’s suicide attack on the IRS. Soon after Joe Stack, an angry software programmer, flew a plane […]

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Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group’s stature, has died. He was 85. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church where Hooks was pastor, said Hooks died early Thursday at his home, following a long illness. Hooks became executive director […]

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Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group’s stature, has died. He was 85. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church where Hooks was pastor, said Hooks died early Thursday at his home, following a long illness. Hooks became executive director […]

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I am not Catholic, Muslim or Jewish, in fact I don’t have any religious affiliation what so ever, just a free thinker that believes what is happening in the Catholic Church at the moment is shameful and something needs to be done. Pope Benedict the Sixteenth has turned a blind eye, stalled or swept under […]