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Robotic arm controlled by a person's thoughts
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 4:17 PM EDT (ITN)
Cathy Hutchinson, who lost the use of her limbs after a stroke, has been able to drink coffee using a robotic arm controlled by her thoughts. The 58-year-old used a brain implant to control the robot, the first time she had picked up anything since she was left paralysed nearl …
Norquist: Put Jindal on the ticket
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 3:36 PM EDT (Daily Beast)
The case for Jindal has been made before and now the argument is joined by Grover Norquist
Gallup Poll: Americans See Obama as Solid Favorite to Win Election
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:39 PM EDT (gallup.com)
Fifty-six percent of Americans think Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36% who think Mitt Romney will win. Democrats are more likely to believe that Obama will win than Republicans are to believe Romney will. Independents are nearly twice as li …
There Is No Such Thing As 'Traditional Marriage'
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:24 PM EDT (Outside the Beltway)
The debate over same-sex marriage usually begins with someone on the right claiming that they oppose the idea of two men or two women being married because they wish to defend “traditional marriage.” What becomes clear after a short while, though, is that their idea …
Rush Limbaugh: '1965 A Great Year, Bullying Was Legal'
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:07 PM EDT (Mediaite)
On his radio show Friday, Rush Limbaugh dismissed the notion that the alleged high-school pranks committed by presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney count as “bullying,” saying “You had long hair in 1965, you were gonna get razzed. It didn’t matter,” …
Conservative States Have Some Of The Least Family-Friendly Policies
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 12:59 PM EDT (Think Progress)
NPWF [the National Partnership for Women and Families] grades each state on its "laws that relate to workplace rights and protections for new parents." Only two — California and Connecticut — received an A-, and 18 mostly Republican-dominated states, includin …
Fox News Panelist: Obama 'Threw Black Community Under Bus' For The Gay Community's Money
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 12:41 PM EDT (Mediaite)
That comment came from conservative author Deneen Borelli, a catchy attack which she actually said twice during the brief segment. Borelli charged the President with being “on the wrong side of the issue” (personally, I’d much rather be on the wrong side of an …
Is Romney ready for Bain battle? Strategists in both parties say he has yet to give a detailed explanation of his tenure.
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:45 AM EDT (Politico)
The war over Bain has finally arrived. And Republicans throughout the political universe are wondering whether Mitt Romney is ready. As the Obama campaign this week began a concerted attack on the presumptive GOP nominee for his tenure at the private equity firm he managed, s …
News Corp hacking scandal: Murdoch confidante Rebekah Brooks charged with perjury, perverting course of justice
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:33 AM EDT (Reuters)
Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon's media empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment. Brooks was charged …
Tony Blair tells Evangelical conference he wanted to end speeches with 'God bless Britain' but advisors told him 'This is not America'
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 6:12 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Tony Blair has revealed he had once wanted to finish a speech while he was Prime Minister with ‘God bless Britain’ – until concerned aides told him ‘this is not America’. The former premier said the idea of using the rhetorical flourish that echoe …
Bill O'Reilly Accuses Obama Of 'Political Terrorism'
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 5:43 AM EDT (News Corpse)
Monday night’s program featured an interview with Frank VanderSloot, a wealthy businessman who is the finance chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign for president. VanderSloot has been the subject of a Murdoch Media blitz to defend him from what they have called a smear ca …
In Commencement Speech Face-Off, Obama The Winner
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:59 PM EDT (National Journal)
[The reaction President Barack Obama received from the audience at Barnard College on Monday] represents a telling contrast from the one his opponent, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, received Saturday when he delivered the commencement address at the evangelical …
The New Right-Wing Meme: Obama Is Gay!
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 5:54 PM EDT ( Is Rick Santorum The Second Coming Of Bush/Cheney? | Addicting Info)
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John Derbyshire Goes Full Racist: 'White supremacy is one of the better arrangements History has come up with'
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 4:36 PM EDT (Mediaite)
Writing for VDARE.com, a website in which you have to click through a splash page with a content warning in order to reach their content, Derbyshire published “Who Are We? – The ‘Dissident Right’ on Thursday. “White Nationalist,” which has a …
Mitt Romney Job Destroyer Exhibit A: GST Steel, bought and bankrupted by Bain Capital (Video)
Mon May 14, 2012 9:32 AM EDT
Today the Obama team unveiled its hard-hitting ad campaign focusing on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital with an exposé of the handling of Armco / GS Technologies / GS Industries, aka GST Steel:
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Gallup: U.S. Acceptance of Gay/Lesbian Relations Is the New Normal
Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 6:57 AM EDT (gallup.com)
For the third year, a majority says gay/lesbian relations are morally acceptable. The slight majority of American adults, 54%, consider gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable. Public acceptance of gay/lesbian relations as morally acceptable grew slowly but steadily from 38 …
Fake Outrage of the Day: Obama Campaign 'Tried to Bribe Rev. Wright'
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 5:54 PM EDT (Little Green Footballs)
Here’s today’s blatantly dishonest post at Breitbart.com by one of their hackiest writers, Ben Shapiro: WRIGHT: OBAMA TRIED TO BRIBE ME TO KEEP QUIET IN 2008. No, Ben, that is not what Rev. Wright said to the New York Post. The Post [owned by Rupert Murdoch's News …
America, the home of conspiracy theories, creationism and climate skepticism is also a scientific powerhouse; British reporter Neil Denny takes a road trip to explore the contradictions.
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 9:32 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
How Rational is America? Neil Denny: There is a familiar cliché in the UK media of an overtly religious, backward-looking, anti-intellectual and anti-science America, an America under sustained attack from the forces of irrationality. ...Yet it remains a fact that …
Mitt Romney rejects gay marriage while courting evangelical Christians at Liberty University
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 8:52 AM EDT (Telegraph)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of Liberty University, the world's largest Christian university, telling them that marriage is between "one man and one woman". ... The Lynchburg, Virginia, school, founded …
Does the idea of same sex marriage fly in the face of thousands of years of traditional marriage? Actually, no.
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 7:34 AM EDT (Immoral Minority)
Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual. Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University's history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexu …
Under the U.S. Supreme Court, 2012 election drowning in secret money
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 6:40 AM EDT (United Press International)
By MICHAEL KIRKLAND, WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- The 2012 elections are awash in secret money, with donors accountable to no one, while the national media sleeps and few voters seem to care. If money has an impact in U.S. elections, the race for the White House and other high …
Veterans weary of war favor Obama
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 6:17 AM EDT (Reuters)
Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a John Wayne poster, an …
The Radical Pacifist History of Mother's Day
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 5:36 AM EDT (Nation of Change)
Mother's Day began in America in 1870 when Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation. Written in response to the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, her proclamation called on women to use their position as mothers to influence society in fighting for …
Osteen, Graham, Falwell, Land and Robertson called on to step down for 'betraying Jesus Christ' by supporting 'non-Christian' Mitt Romney
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 11:27 AM EDT (Christian News Wire)
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 11, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Richard Land and Pat Robertson are called to step down for betraying Jesus Christ. "These preachers have ignored God's Word. They have led people astray to vote for non-Chr …
Michele Bachmann drops Swiss citizenship after being blasted by Right Wingers as treasonous, insulting
Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 11:09 AM EDT (Politico)
Rep. Michele Bachmann insisted Thursday she’s withdrawing her Swiss citizenship to “make it perfectly clear” that she’s a “proud American citizen,” but intense criticism from the right may have forced her decision. The news that the Min …
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