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Old America....Innocent Until Proven Guilty, New America....Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Fri May 18, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

Remember the old saying "innocent until proven guilty?" It was and in my mind is still is one of the foundations that make this country great. Presumption of Innocence: That we waited to proclaim guilt until it was proven in a court of law. Now the left wi …

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human-rights, life, florida, martin, guns, freedom, us-news, liberty, gun-rights, zimmerman

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President more conservative than GOTP :the truth

Fri May 18, 2012 11:47 AM EDT

By Coral Atlas

It wasn't an accident that OUR President took positions that pushed the opposing party off a right wing cliff. The further right he moved the further right they moved. It isn't often that one can control their opponents the way OUR President has played the GOTP. He even gave the …

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campaign, election, politics

My 300th, and you're going to like this one, or not.

Thu May 17, 2012 11:02 PM EDT

By bobby3053155

Recently I had to do several things which really bother me regarding some of my articles. On two of them I had to "close" comments after they were so derailed and taken off course I did not have the energy to fend off what had become personal attacks. A coordinated effort I guess …

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not-news, human-rights, libertarians, ignore-author, close-comments, thread-hijacking

Pro life or pro white? :birth control

Thu May 17, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

By Coral Atlas

WE tend to think of birth control as being restrictive rather than expansive. That is how conventional wisdom misleads all of us. Ignorance loves companionship. Yet the real unspoken issue for pro lifers is that whites are more inclined to get abortions. Since approximately two …

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politics, abortion, pro-life, pro-choice

Ron Paul pushes measure to guarantee due process to detainees — U.S. citizen or not

Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 5:56 PM EDT (The Houston Chronicle)

Seeded by Marshall James

Now that Ron Paul is scaling back his campaign, it’s back to business. The Texas congressman dropped in on a House press conference to support a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization bill, the National Journal reported. The amendment, proposed by members of th …

politics, freedom, rights, prison, liberty, tyranny, oppression, due-process, imprisonment

U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destruction, slave labor

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 10:11 PM EDT ()

Seeded by ambivalent

According to a new report by Greenpeace, top U.S. car companies such as Ford, General Motors, and Nissan are sourcing pig iron that has resulted in the destruction of Amazon rainforests, slave labor, and land conflict with indigenous tribes. Spending two years documenting …

world-news, greenpeace, auto-industry, slave-labor, illegal-logging, pig-iron, brazilian-rainforest, illegal-kilns

GOTP imperialism in America :revelation

Wed May 16, 2012 4:49 PM EDT

By Coral Atlas

Imperialism is loosely defined as follows "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." " .... is primarily a Western undertaking …

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politics, imperialism

As Obama OKs Weapons to Bahrain, Neurosurgeon Tortured by Regime Faces Trial for Treating Protesters

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:50 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Seeded by storyartist (Clipped by bobby3053155)

We’re joined by Dr. Nabeel Hameed, who is one of Bahrain’s only neurosurgeons and among dozens of Bahraini physicians and nurses who have been arrested and tried for treating anti-government protesters.

politics, torture, revolution, bahrain, arab-spring, weapons-sale, nabeel-hameed

How much freedom can you afford to buy? :truth

Wed May 16, 2012 7:41 AM EDT

By Coral Atlas

In America if you have money you can buy freedom - or at least what those in power have defined as freedom. We all talk about jobs as if they are anything other than the servitude of one human to another in exchange for food and water. The prism of capitalism has dist …

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politics, capitalism, imperialism

Global Warming, The Gaia Theory and the Ruin That Awaits

Tue May 15, 2012 10:44 PM EDT

By Grisham

In the 1970’s, the Gaia hypothesis was born. Initially, the hypothesis was met with great skepticism but since then it has gained a lot of traction in the scientific community. Basically, the theory states that the Earth and everything on it, act as a sort of self-regulati …

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