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Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being Impregnated During a Rape Is Just Like Getting a Flat Tire
Kansas Republican Rep. Pete DeGraaf of Kansas stuck the proverbial foot in his mouth last week when debating whether to cover abortions for pregnancies that are the result of rape. Peter Rugg of Pitch.com is reporting Kansas legislators approved a ban on insurance companies that offer abortion coverage as part of their general health plans…
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President Obama to Visit Tornado-Ravaged Missouri Sunday
Reuters is reporting that President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he will visit a devastated section of Missouri on Sunday where 116 people were killed by a monster tornado. Obama, making a statement from the U.S. ambassador’s residence in London as he begins a state visit to Britain, said his message to those affected…
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NFL Rookie Escorts Disabled Teen to Dance
Fox Sports is reporting that Chicago Bears rookie linebacker J.T. Thomas escorted a wheelchair-bound girl to her middle-school dance. The former West Virginia standout last month met 14-year-old Joslyn Levell, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. During that meeting, she told him that all of the boys she had asked to the dance…
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Ex-IMF Chief's DNA Matches Material on Maid's Shirt
MSNBC is reporting new tests have found that the DNA of former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn matches material found on the shirt of a Manhattan hotel maid who says he attacked her, two people familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press. Colleen Long reports that two people said the tests were returned…
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Supreme Court Upholds Order That Could Release 40,000 California Inmates
Robert Barnes of the Washington Post is reporting that a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld a judicial order that could result in the release of nearly 40,000 prisoners from a California penal system so overcrowded that its conditions are, the court wrote, “incompatible with the concept of human dignity.” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,…
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Does It Really Pay to Get a Ph.D.?
Many people believe that pursuing and obtaining a Ph.D. guarantees a young scholar employment at a competitive college or university. The Nation’s William Deresiewicz deconstructs that myth, citing rampant unemployment among Ph.D.s and the creation of an academic underclass through the use of part-time and non-tenure-track faculty. Deresiewicz highlights professors that dissuade students from pursuing…
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Herman Cain Officially Enters Presidential Race
The Associated Press is reporting that the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and Tea Party favorite Herman Cain has officially entered the 2012 GOP race. The man who famously said, “Don’t condemn me because the first black one was bad,” has tossed his hat into the ring. “In case you accidentally listen to a skeptic…
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VIDEO: D.C. Police Slam Wheelchair-Bound Man to the Ground
Can you say “police brutality”? NewsOne is reporting that video of D.C. police pulling a wheelchair-bound man out of his chair and slamming him to the ground has surfaced. The incident, which reportedly happened over the weekend, was caught on tape by a passerby. The videotape shows police officers grabbing the wheelchair-bound man, pulling him…
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Black Enterprise: The Impact of Sex Scandals on Finances
Black Enterprise has put together a slide show of famous celebrities, mostly politicians, who have lost out financially because of sex scandals uncovered by the media or legal authorities. The motley crew includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, who could possibly lose $300 million over his recent admission of an affair and fathering a child. Kobe Bryant is…
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