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• The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occu …

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• Bristol Palin Mocks the President and His Daughters

  Source: Atkanta Blackstar

  In a hypocritical twist, President Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia are now receiving harsh attacks from Bristol Palin of all people—daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

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  If, as George Lakoff says, we view politics through the metaphor of family, then Mother's Day is a good time to ask the question: Where's Mom in this picture? What are all those dirty socks and pizza boxes doing in the living room? (Seriously: it looks like a frat house in here.) …

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• Serbian 'dyke terrorist' arrested over YouTube threats

  Source: Dutchnews.nl

  The Serbian police have arrested a man who threatened to blow up Dutch dykes in a video he posted on YouTube and later described as a joke. Dutch media report Miroljub Petrovic was arrested in the Belgrade at the request of the Dutch authorities. In the video, filmed on the D …

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• "And that's the way it is"....this week of 5.11.2012

  Like a fine wine - this gets better with each passing week! My dear friend Jody in Iowa publishes this weekely recap under First Thought's every Friday morning. She is a little shy about her work but I think this is to good not to share with a with a larger audience. Jody has giv …

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