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• Unheard Martin Luther King Jr. tape found in attic
• Paterno 'despised' Sandusky long before scandal, book claims
• Jumping ship: The party platforms no one stands on anymore
• Young Republicans make ‘Call Me Maybe’ video to recruit volunteers
• Romney campaign accuses Obama of 'deceitful rhetoric'
• Two-word error may cost Santa Clara, Calif. $548 million
• Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16
• Legitimate takedown: Rep. Akin meets the women of the Internet
• Michael Moore, Oliver Stone pen op-ed supporting Assange
• Dems outline plan to use Ryan budget against GOP candidates
• First lady hits gym before dawn -- and before hubby
• Drought’s impact on food prices could worsen hunger in America
• Court: Ala can't check student immigration status
• Japanese journalist killed covering Syria fighting
• NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases
• Israel arrests teen girls over hate attack on Palestinians
• Will this year’s convention make history…like this?
• Akin releases new campaign ad asking for ‘forgiveness’ (VIDEO)
• Israel embassy in Dublin evacuated after device found
• Afghan militants hit top U.S. general's plane
• Feds close Calif. slaughterhouse after abuse video
• Afghan militants hit US military chief's plane
• Ethiopian PM Meles dies from infection: state television
• Insight: Ryan economics more Reagan than Tea Party
• U.S. Army battling racists within its own ranks

Unheard Martin Luther King Jr. tape found in attic Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960."

Paterno 'despised' Sandusky long before scandal, book claims Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT Paterno's 'Dark Moments' After Sex Scandal Exposed in New Biography

Jumping ship: The party platforms no one stands on anymore Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:41 AM PDT In the furor over Todd Akin's inventive understanding of biology, we should not lose sight of another matter. His position on abortion--that the victim of rape should be compelled to bear her rapist's child--has been the official position of the Republican Party for more than thirty years.

Young Republicans make ‘Call Me Maybe’ video to recruit volunteers Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:25 AM PDT The Chicago Young Republicans made a "Call Me Maybe" parody to recruit volunteers for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. A sample: We'll give you pizza Plus some free beer Why are you waiting? Just get yourself here Before you start to give up We need you so bad We need you so bad We need you [...]

Romney campaign accuses Obama of 'deceitful rhetoric' Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades sent out a fundraising email Tuesday morning accusing President Obama of "deceitful rhetoric." "During a surprise media briefing yesterday – the first in eight weeks – he claimed that his campaign had never called Mitt Romney a criminal," Rhoades said....

Two-word error may cost Santa Clara, Calif. $548 million Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:20 AM PDT Talk about going over your character limit. City officials in Santa Clara, Calif. are scrambling to fix a two-word mistake in the upcoming November ballot that could cost the Silicon Valley city more than half-a-billion dollars. The issue stems around wording for a measure that would allow the local water district to renew a $548 [...]

Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not for Class of '16 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:04 AM PDT Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.

Legitimate takedown: Rep. Akin meets the women of the Internet Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:58 AM PDT You gotta hand it to a guy who wakes up, checks the weather and decides, Today's the day to opine about rape! Last month, the comedian Daniel Tosh attempted to silence a heckler at the Laugh Factory, saying, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now? Like right now?"

Michael Moore, Oliver Stone pen op-ed supporting Assange Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:42 AM PDT Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning filmmakers and free speech activists, have penned an op-ed for the New York Times in support of the Ecuadorean government's decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Dems outline plan to use Ryan budget against GOP candidates Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:25 AM PDT As House Budget Committee Chairman, Ryan put forward a budget plan that would restructure the health care program for seniors by offering them a choice to accept federal subsidies to pay for health insurance through private insurance companies.

First lady hits gym before dawn -- and before hubby Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:37 AM PDT Daily workouts at 6 a.m.? Not bad, Paul Ryan. But there's another influential political figure who's apparently often finished with hers by then: Michelle Obama.

Drought’s impact on food prices could worsen hunger in America Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:20 AM PDT More than 18 percent of Americans say there have been times this year when they couldn't afford the food they needed, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. That plight could grow because of the country's worst drought in half a century. The U.S. Department of Agriculture warned last month that Americans should expect [...]

Court: Ala can't check student immigration status Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:04 AM PDT Part of Alabama's immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a federal appeals court that also said police in that state and Georgia can demand papers from criminal suspects they have detained.

Japanese journalist killed covering Syria fighting Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:48 AM PDT A veteran Japanese war correspondent was shot and killed while covering Syria's civil war, her family and the government said Tuesday.

NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:15 AM PDT In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.

Israel arrests teen girls over hate attack on Palestinians Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:42 AM PDT Jerusalem police arrested two 15-year-old girls on Monday, bringing to seven the number of Jewish teenagers arrested in connection with a brutal hate attack on young Palestinians last week.

Will this year’s convention make history…like this? Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:26 AM PDT National conventions have a long history of, well, making history.

Akin releases new campaign ad asking for ‘forgiveness’ (VIDEO) Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:09 AM PDT Facing a fury of calls from his own party to drop out of the Missouri Senate race--and a 5 p.m. (CT) deadline to do so--embattled Republican Congressman Todd Akin released a new campaign ad early Tuesday apologizing for his comments about "legitimate rape"--and asking for forgiveness.

Israel embassy in Dublin evacuated after device found Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:36 AM PDT DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Israeli embassy in Dublin was evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious device was found on the premises, police said. The army's bomb-disposal team was at the scene to investigate, a police spokesman said. "A suspicious device was found and we were contacted. The building is being evacuated," the spokesman said. (Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Afghan militants hit top U.S. general's plane Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:15 AM PDT Two People Were Injured in the Attack

Feds close Calif. slaughterhouse after abuse video Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:59 AM PDT Federal regulators have shut down a Central California slaughterhouse after receiving undercover video showing dairy cows — some unable to walk — being repeatedly shocked and shot before being slaughtered.

Afghan militants hit US military chief's plane Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:54 AM PDT A military official says militants have fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan, damaging the plane of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit.

Ethiopian PM Meles dies from infection: state television Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:29 PM PDT ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died from a sudden infection while recovering from an undisclosed illness at a hospital abroad, the African nation's state-run television said on Tuesday. Speculation that Meles, 57, was seriously ill grew after he failed to attend an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa last month. "Prime Minister Zenawi suddenly passed away last night. Meles was recovering in a hospital overseas for the past two months but died of a sudden infection at 11:40," state television said. ...

Insight: Ryan economics more Reagan than Tea Party Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:57 PM PDT OXFORD, Ohio (Reuters) - When Cesar Conda was a Republican staff director on the U.S. Senate's small business committee in 1991, he often was badgered with questions on economic theory by Paul Ryan, then a 21-year-old intern. Ryan, now the Republican candidate for vice president, "worked in the mail room and would constantly pop his head into my office to ask questions about supply-side economics," Conda said. "I had a lot of work to do, so I gave him a couple of books to keep him busy. ...

U.S. Army battling racists within its own ranks Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:41 PM PDT FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - They call it "rahowa" - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's fiercest fighting machine, the U.S. military. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and skinhead groups encourage followers to enlist in the Army and Marine Corps to acquire the skills to overthrow what some call the ZOG - the Zionist Occupation Government. Get in, get trained and get out to brace for the coming race war. ...

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