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Student: Anti-marriage push is like being told ‘f*gs die’
A student at North Carolina State University encouraged county commissioners on Monday not to support a resolution calling for voters to ban same sex marriage because it was basically the same as saying “fags die.” Numerous citizens came to the Wake County Board of Commissioners to speak out against Republican…
5 sexual health services insurance will cover… for men
The political flap over the Obama Administration decision to require health insurance companies to cover birth control as preventative care continues apace, even after former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) declared it “a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be,”…
Six people the media should have talked to last week about birth control
It has been widely remarked that last week’s discussions about the Affordable Health Care Act’s mandate that insurers provide women with free birth control was a little heavy on men and religious figures and awfully light on women and health care experts. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held a hearing on…
Man has heart attack while eating ‘Triple Bypass Burger’
A restaurant called “The Heart Attack Grilled” finally earned its name on Saturday when a customer eating one of their Triple Bypass Burgers had a cardiac arrest. “At the time of the incident I was performing bypass procedures on other patients,” restaurant owner Jon Basso told Raw Story. “My ‘head’…
Austin police swarm white man for walking with black granddaughter
The Austin Police Department (APD) was unapologetic Wednesday after a swarm of officers detained a white man over the weekend, simply for walking home with his black granddaughter. As it happens, that man was journalist-turned-political consultant Scott Henson, who writes the blog Grits for Breakfast, covering criminal justice reform issues.…
Texas LGBT activists arrested for occupying county clerk’s office
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Taking their cues from the local “Occupy” movement, three LGBT activists in Austin allowed themselves to be arrested Tuesday morning during an annual marriage equality protest at the Travis County Clerk’s office. Instead of the usual parade of LGBT activists applying for marriage licenses on Valentine’s Day,…
Union employees showed CPAC a good time — and their union pride
This weekend, as tuxedoed waitstaff quietly served drinks and dinner to paying CPAC attendees interested in the bon mots of union-busting Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R), few of the guests likely took the time to peer at their servers’ chests. If they had, the CPACers might have noticed something ironic:…
Ex-cop: Marijuana policy ‘creates too many crime victims’
In the midst of the students and conservative stalwarts in business attire at CPAC, Howard Wooldridge stands out like a sore thumb — but not because of his cowboy hat and big belt buckle. It’s his T-shirt, which loudly proclaims “COPS SAY LEGALIZE POT ASK ME WHY.” And people do,…
American kids of immigrants denied food stamps in Alabama
A civil rights law firm based in Alabama says that children who are U.S. citizens from at least five families have been denied food stamps because their parents are undocumented immigrants. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Legal Director Mary Bauer confirmed to Raw Story that Alabama’s Department of Human Services…
Awkward: Fox News contributor debuts rap video at CPAC
Bright and early Friday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., a small group of Republicans were treated to perhaps the most bizarre attempt at rap music since “M.C. Rove” took the stage in front of the whole D.C. press corps in 2007. As part of…
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