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Democratic Campaign Manager’s Cat Killed With Word ‘Liberal’ Written On Fur (Contains Graphic Picture)
Jacob Burris, campaign manager to Arkansas Democratic Congressional candidate, Ken Aden , arrived home to a horrifying site Sunday evening. The Burris family cat was laying dead on the doorstep of their house with its head bashed in, an eyeball barely hanging from the socket and the word ‘liberal’ in black marker on its side. “To kill a child’s pet is just unconscionable,” Aden said Monday morning.Republican Congressman Screams At Mother With Two Children, Tells Her To Join The Military Instead Of Using Pell Grants
When a mother with two children and two jobs expressed her concern about Pell Grants, which she relies on to pay for college, during a town hall held by Republican Congressman Steve Womack in Arkansas last week, she probably didn’t expect his reaction. According to Blue Arkansas , Kelly Eubanks asked Womack about the Pell Grant program which she uses to attend college. Eubanks, who has to work two jobs to take care of her two children, was concerned about his vote to slash Pell Grants for 100,000 low income students. She expected an explanation. Instead, Womack avoided her question and callously told her that she should “join the military” to pay her own way like he did.
Moyers & Co.: How Washington and Big Business Colluded to Make the Rich Richer | Truthout
This weekend Bill Moyers returns to television with Moyers & Company. In his first show, Bill explores how Washington made the rich richer at the expense of the middle class. On Friday, the premiere episode of Moyers & Company, Bill’s guests – Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, argue that America’s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered. How in a nation as rich as America can the economy simply stop working for people at large, while super-serving those at the very top? Through exhaustive research and analysis, the political scientists Hacker and Pierson -- whom Bill regards as the “Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
Revealed: The FBI's Secretive Practice of "Blackballing" Files | Truthout
Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there's a chance the FBI may have found some documents, but for unknown reasons, the agency's FOIA analysts determined it was not responsive and "blackballed" the file, crucial information the FBI withholds from a requester when it issues a "no records" response. The FBI's practice of "blackballing" files has never been publicly disclosed before. With the exception of one open government expert, a half-dozen others contacted by Truthout said they were unfamiliar with the process of "blackballing" and had never heard of the term.“Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days I feel like it doesn’t matter what I do, how hard I try - that’s my fate, too.” -11th-grade African American student, Berkeley, California This young man isn’t being cynical or melodramatic; he’s articulating a terrifying reality for many of the children and youth sitting in our classrooms—a reality that is often invisible or misunderstood. Some have seen the growing numbers of security guards and police in our schools as unfortunate but necessary responses to the behavior of children from poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But what if something more ominous is happening? What if many of our students—particularly our African American, Latina/o, Native American, and Southeast Asian children—are being channeled toward prison and a lifetime of second-class status?
Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Truthout
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Confiscating Condoms? The Dumbfounding Ways Police Deal With Prostitution | Sex & Relationships
Facebook's privacy settings have again come under fire for revealing information that users assumed was private. Users' sexual orientations have been revealed without their permission, as the targeted Facebook ads land on their pages. A Gawker writer fiddling with the ad's advanced targeting options, found that they could reveal how many Facebook employees are into kinky sex , by tweaking a few settings. In the easy to use advertising system, anyone setting up a Facebook advertising campaign can target employees of any organisation, and type in any kind of interest they want to target. That could be kittens and cupcakes, or it could be kinky sex, Barely Legal magazine or the Tory party.
