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Heroic football player stops potentially lethal teacher attack

Seeded on Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:47 AM EST (Yahoo!)

By all accounts, the attack looked like it would be lethal. In the moments after the school bell rang, a 40-year-old teacher brutally attacked a fellow teacher.

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Judge: Facebook post should cost job of NJ teacher

Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:22 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey administrative law judge has ruled that a first-grade teacher who wrote that she was a "warden for future criminals" on Facebook earlier this year should lose her tenured job.

education, students, teachers, criminal, law-judge, jennifer-obrien, nancy-oxfeld

Business owner indicted in alleged food-stamp scheme | recordonline.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:42 AM EDT (Record Online)

KINGSTON — A wide-ranging investigation into an alleged food-stamp-fraud mill in Midtown Kingston has the potential to be a money saving bonanza for taxpayers, according to Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright.

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3 die of rare brain infection from amoeba in water - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:01 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

ATLANTA (AP) — Two children and a young man have died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water, health officials say.

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5 Ways Corporate Scavengers Are Making Big Money Off Our Economic Pain

Seeded on Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:08 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

February 12, 2011 | The ruins of the American economy represent a massive crime scene. Wall Street built a house of cards on fraud and misrepresentation, it crashed, and Americans' aggregate net worth is now more than $12 trillion off of its peak.

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GOP's Major Anti-Choice Move: Effectively Ending All Insurance Coverage for Abortion

Seeded on Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:47 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

"If thought that the complete battery of anti-choice provisions was over and we're in for an entrenched fight, you're wrong. The GOP is continuing to add heinous anti-choice provisions to the ever-morphing H.R. 3 bill.

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MSNBC's Cenk Uygur: 'I Plan to Beat Fox News in the Ratings and Make Them Fear Me'

Seeded on Wed Feb 9, 2011 9:16 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

February 8, 2011 | "I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me as a TV host -- we must restore our democracy." -- Cenk Uygur

tv, politics, progressive, obama, nbc-universal, comcast, fox-news, republican, oreilly, tv-ratings

Why Does Clarence Thomas Get Away With Breaking the Law, As His Wife Shills for Wealthy Right-Wingers?

Seeded on Tue Feb 8, 2011 5:36 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

February 7, 2011 | When it comes to the financial and ethical improprieties of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, there is only bad news and worse news.

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Right-Wing Terrorism: Murders Grow on the Far Right Four Decades After Martin Luther King Jr.

Seeded on Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:12 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

The American landscape is pockmarked by the wreckage left behind by angry, white male extremists.

washington, politics, terrorist, murder, oreilly, savage, hannity, keith-olbermann, tea-party, sarah-palin

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Why Are People Willing to Fork Out a Fortune for Shoes That Cost Little to Make?

Seeded on Wed Oct 6, 2010 5:00 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

October 1, 2010 | Shoes are fashion's version of drugs.

philippines, fashion, shoes, clark, vietnam, tufts-university, international-labor-organization, nike, factories, new-balance

Sex and the GOP: Why Right-Wing Women Like Sarah Palin Will Never Attract a Majority of Women Voters

Seeded on Tue Oct 5, 2010 5:08 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Before the new GOP women entered the picture, the Republican Party was like Kansas in The Wizard of Oz: colorless, defined by a white male old guard along with a lackluster lineup of "young guns" cut from the same drab cloth.

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Ayn Rand Conservatism at Work -- Firefighters Let Family's House Burn Down Because Owner Didn't Pay $75 Fee

Seeded on Tue Oct 5, 2010 4:50 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

October 4, 2010 | Thanks to 30 years of right-wing demagoguery about the evils of "collectivism" and the perfidy of "big government" -- and a bruising recession that's devastated state and local budgets -- we're getting a peek at a dystopian nightmare that may be in …

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NYT: 296 Advertisers Exclude Their Commercials From Glenn Beck's Show

Seeded on Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:59 AM EDT ()

While Beck's personal ventures and exposure have soared this year, his television ratings have declined sharply — perhaps another factor in the network's impatience.

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Social Security Con Artists Are Lying About One of the Strongest Arms of the Program

Seeded on Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:25 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

September 23, 2010 | You've no doubt heard about how the Social Security Trust Fund is projected to run out of cash a few decades down the line.

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Right-Wing Extremism Coming to a Voting Booth Near You

Seeded on Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:43 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

September 24, 2010, Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-town pulpit.

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Is there any times when little white lies should be acceptable?

Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:00 AM EDT

Christmas and Easter are traditional celebrations shared by many people in different parts of the world.

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It's the 2012 Presidential Election: Will you vote for President Obama to serve another term or not?

Mon Sep 6, 2010 6:25 PM EDT

Pretend it is 2012 and the presidential election is next week. The only other competitor for President is the one and only Sarah Palin.

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The Old Lady Who Waited On "God" to Come

Fri Dec 5, 2008 11:41 AM EST

I was sitting back and relaxing...something I don't get the pleasure of doing often. But every now and then I do...and ponder my life journeys...some pleasant...others not so...

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