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Florida Judge denies ‘Stand Your Ground’ retrial to female black defendant
31-year-old Marissa Alexander was cornered by her abusive husband when she fired a warning shot into the ceiling of their home, using a gun she was licensed to carry. The August, 2010 incident led to the Jacksonville, Florida resident’s conviction of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,…
Paul supporters hope to hijack Maine GOP convention
Supporters of Texas congressman Rep. Ron Paul (R) for the Republican presidential nomination are hoping to “hijack” Maine’s Republican convention this weekend, according to a report at Talking Points Memo. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) won the state’s caucus vote in February, but only by the slimmest of margins,…
Moyers guest: U.S. is looking at immigration from the wrong direction
Author Luis Alberto Urrea was Bill Moyers’s guest on this week’s edition of “Moyers and Company.” Urrea has dedicated his life to telling the stories of the people who live along the 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and “Anglo”…
Dan Savage to debate-seeking NOM spokesman: ‘You’re on, motherf**ker’
Writer and activist Dan Savage has said that he accepts National Organization for Marriage (NOM) spokesman Brian Brown’s challenge to a debate, according to the blog Towleroad. Brown laid down the challenge on Tuesday, incensed about a month-old video of Savage challenging a group of teen Christians’ notions on the…
Maher to Romney: Giving to your ‘ridiculous church’ doesn’t count as charity
Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher went after presumptive Republican nominee Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s assertion that he gives millions away every year in charity. Giving the standard tithe to the Mormon church, in Maher’s opinion, somehow doesn’t have quite the same altruistic heft as…
Financial Planning Meetings: Something Old People Do
You kids listen up. If you are lucky, you won’t live forever, but you’ll live long enough to be as old as me, and have meetings with the Financial Planner Man. Princess Wei and I have had several such meetings with a variety of Financial Planner Guys, and we had…
Fertility treatment babies prone to ‘serious defects’
Children conceived with the aid of fertility treatments are more likely to be born with serious physical defects, according an Australian study published on Saturday. Conception using treatments like ovulation induction, in-vitro fertilisation or the injection of sperm directly into an egg, resulted in serious defects in 8.3 percent of…
23 killed in day of drug wars horror for Mexico
The northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo saw a brutal day of gang violence, with 14 headless bodies found stuffed in a vehicle and nine bodies found hanging from a bridge. The gruesome crimes came less than two months before Mexico’s presidential election, and just ahead of a key…
Military orders troops to ‘fall in line’ after series of PR disasters
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on US troops to tighten up discipline and display “integrity” after a series of public relations disasters that he said could play into the hands of America’s enemies. Panetta, echoing a message from Army and Marine Corps leaders, on Friday said the misconduct related only…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 co-defendants to be arraigned today at Gitmo
The self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four co-accused were due to be arraigned Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, with all facing the death penalty if convicted. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants will be formally charged in a military tribunal with planning and executing the September 11, 2001, attacks…
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